Team GB at Paris Olympics: Who are the British athletes to observe on the 2024 Games?

The first athletes to symbolize Great Britain at the Olympics Games in Paris subsequent yr have been introduced.

Team GB have unveiled nearly all of their sailors for the 2024 Games, with athletes from climbing, canoe slalom and triathlon additionally chosen.

The Great Britain workforce includes athletes from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (though athletes from the province can symbolize the Republic of Ireland as an alternative).

Team GB have recorded very good leads to the final 4 Games, coming fourth within the medals desk at Beijing 2008, third at London 2012, second at Rio 2016, then fourth at Tokyo 2020.

This file will up to date as Britain announce extra athletes for the XXXIII Olympic Summer Games within the French capital, which run from 26 July to 11 August.

Who are Team GB’s athletes?

Canoe slalom

Mallory Franklin: Women’s canoe single (C1) and kayak cross
GB’s most profitable feminine canoeist, Franklin took silver within the first Olympic girls’s C1 race at Tokyo 2020. She is the reigning C1 world champion and also will contest the kayak cross, which makes its Games debut in Paris. 

Kimberley Woods: Women’s kayak single (K1) and kayak cross 
On her Olympic debut in Tokyo, Woods impressed en path to the ultimate however suffered 56 seconds in penalties to complete tenth. She bounced again with bronze on the World Championships that yr – simply 10 days after being concerned in a automotive crash. Woods, who received kayak cross gold and C1 silver on the 2023 World Championships, spoke candidly about her psychological well being battles in 2020 and has change into a inspirational presence on the workforce.

Adam Burgess: Men’s canoe single (C1) 
The Black Sabbath and Stoke City fan has 4 European Championships and 5 World Championships medals to his identify. Also a lover of yoga and a professionally certified espresso brewer, Burgess missed out on bronze by 0.16 seconds on his Olympic debut in Tokyo and says he has “unfinished business” in Paris. 

Joe Clarke: Men’s kayak single (K1) and kayak cross 
At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Clarke turned the primary Briton to win K1 gold and, after lacking out on choice for Tokyo 2020, will look to make amends in Paris. He has loved his most profitable interval between 2021 and 2023, profitable a hat-trick of kayak cross world titles and K1 gold in 2023. 

Sailing

John Gimson and Anna Burnet: Nacra 17 (blended multihull)
Former Americas Cup sailor Gimson and Burnet had been Tokyo 2020 silver medallists and shall be seeking to go one higher in Paris after securing their place by taking bronze on the Olympic check occasion in July, adopted by claiming the runners-up spot on the World Championships in August.

James Peters and Fynn Sterritt: 49er (males’s skiff) 
Peters, who was nominated for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2008, stepped away from crusing after being pipped, together with Sterritt, by eventual gold medallists Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell for GB choice for Tokyo, however he returned and maybe has some extent to show in Paris. Peters and Sterritt are making their Olympic debut.

Freya Black and Saskia Tidey: 49erFX (girls’s skiff)
Two-time Olympian Tidey would be the most skilled member of the Team GB crusing workforce, whereas crew-mate Black is the youngest sailor within the aspect at simply 22. Tidey represented Ireland at Rio 2016 earlier than switching to Team GB – qualifying by way of her father Don – for Tokyo 2020. Black is taking a break from finding out philosophy and politics on the University of Exeter to deal with her maiden Olympics.

Emma Wilson: iQFOiL (girls’s windsurfing)
Wilson received GB’s first girls’s windsurfing medal since 2008 with bronze at Tokyo 2020 and has efficiently tailored since switching from the RS:X to the iQFOiL – the foiling windsurfer which is new for Paris 2024 – two years in the past. 

Having learnt easy methods to windsurf alongside her mom Penny, a two-time Olympian, Wilson received her first world title aged simply 12 within the U15 class. She received bronze on the 2023 World Championships and silver on the check occasion in Marseille, the venue for the Paris 2024 crusing competitors. 

Sam Sills: iQFOiL (males’s windsurfing)
The naval architect missed out on choice for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 then stepped away from crusing and targeted on serving to to scale back its carbon footprint, engaged on eco-friendly boats in Norway and Sweden. The former junior world champion returned to crusing after the Olympic windsurfing tools modified from RS:X to iQFOiL.

Ellie Aldridge: Formula kite (girls’s kite)
Aldridge bounced again from a capsizing aged seven that put her off the water and took up kite foiling for weekend enjoyable. Since the category was added to the Olympics for Paris 2024, she has change into a daily medal contender at main occasions, profitable silver on the Olympic check occasion and in August’s World Championships, then gold on the European Championships.

Michael Beckett: ILCA 7 (males’s dinghy)
After lacking out on choice Tokyo, the Welsh sailor suggested TV administrators on race narratives on the Olympics in Japan. This time Beckett, the 2021 European champion who studied engineering in ship science at Southampton University, shall be attempting to interrupt Australia’s three-Games profitable streak within the class.

Triathlon

Beth Potter: Women’s particular person 
The Glaswegian completed thirty fourth within the 10,000m on the Rio 206 Olympics, earlier than switching to triathlon. In 2023, the previous physics trainer received the Olympic check occasion in Paris and was topped world champion in Pontevedra, Spain.

Alex Lee: Men’s particular person
A former coaching colleague of the Brownlee brothers, Yee claimed particular person silver and blended relay gold at Tokyo 2020. Having been awarded an MBE in 2022, Lee booked his spot on the 2024 Games by profitable the check occasion in 2023.