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Crew GB Paris 2024 Olympic medallists by location

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Getty Images Keely Hodgkinson holds a Union Jack flag in one hand and a crown on her head in the other. She is wearing a dark blue vest with Great Britain and her name on. The crowd behind her is blurred.Getty Pictures

Keely Hodgkinson celebrates her 800m gold medal

Crew GB added 65 medals to their Olympics haul this 12 months, beating their Tokyo complete by one and creating moments that may go down in Olympics historical past.

However the place did all these medals come from throughout Nice Britain and Northern Eire?

We’ve got taken a deep dive into the stats to seek out out which nations and areas produced probably the most medal-winners this 12 months, and which sports activities they conquered.

So – which elements of Crew GB triumphed, and which struggled to get off the beginning blocks?

As with our evaluation of Crew GB medals received between 1896 and 2020, we have adopted the official Olympics guidelines the place a group medal solely counts as soon as.

To calculate regional success, we have break up the medal by the quantity within the group. So, every particular person of a four-person relay wins 0.25 of a medal for his or her area.

Every athlete’s area or nation has been decided by their native land.

Capital positive factors

Traditionally, London has topped the Crew GB medals desk, and Paris 2024 was no completely different.

The area received 1.58 golds medals, 2.45 silver and 4.86 bronze.

Throughout the board, Crew GB received the fewest gold medals since Athens in 2004.

Nevertheless, athletes akin to 19-year-old climber Toby Roberts and lure shooter Nathan Hales meant the South East alone would have come twentieth within the official Olympics medal desk, with 3.41 golds.

Making a splash

The South West received Crew GB’s first creative swimming medal, with duet members Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman each hailing from Bristol.

The duo, who’ve been swimming collectively since they had been 9, received silver within the pool.

For Scotland, Duncan Scott continued his medal-winning methods.

He received a silver within the males’s 200m particular person medley and was a part of the gold-winning males’s 4x200m freestyle, bringing his Olympic medal complete to eight, probably the most received by any Scot.

Getty Images Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe stand smiling, holding up a Union Jack flag behind them. They are wearing white tracksuits and are holding their silver medals up.Getty Pictures

Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe win silver in creative swimming

The West Midlands was probably the most profitable a part of Crew GB when adjusted for inhabitants, profitable 1.48 medals per a million folks.

All 4 of Crew GB’s canoe medals got here from the West Midlands, though it is unlikely the athletes realized their craft on the canals of Birmingham.

Biking success

All the medals from Wales-born athletes this 12 months got here from girls’s biking occasions.

Emma Finucane received two particular person bronzes within the girls’s kieran and the person dash, and there have been Welsh group members for the medal-winning girls’s group pursuit, madison and group dash.

Two medallists had been born in Northern Eire, Rebecca Shorten and Hannah Scott.

Each received medals in rowing – silver within the girls’s 4 and gold within the girls’s quad sculls respectively.

Getty Images Emma Finucane sits on her bike with her hands raised, waving to the crowd of Team GB fans behind her. She is wearing a dark blue Great Britain cycling suit and has  her white helmet pushed up onto her head.Getty Pictures

Emma Finucane celebrates after the person dash remaining

Solo stars

A number of of the celebs that captured sports activities followers’ hearts heralded from the North. Bryony Web page, who soared to victory within the girls’s trampolining, comes from the North West, as does 800m golden lady Keely Hodgkinson.

Within the comparatively new sport of BMX freestyle, Keiran Reilly took the silver dwelling for the North East.

Getty Images Bryony Page, in a blue sparkly leotard, reacts in shock with her hands raised to her face and her mouth open in surpise. She is stood between her coaches, two men in white t-shirts, who are clapping.Getty Pictures

Bryony Web page reacts to profitable gold

Getty Images Caden Cunningham stands with his arms stretched wide, a blue helmet in one hand. He is smiling and wearing all white with a blue vest with the Paris 2024 logo on. The crowd behind him is blurred.Getty Pictures

Caden Cunningham forward of his semi-final match.

Different sports activities the place Crew GB solely received one medal embrace weightlifting, with East Midlands-born Emily Campbell profitable bronze within the girls’s 81kg, and boxing, with Lewis Richardson from the East profitable bronze within the males’s 71kg.

Lastly, not all Crew GB medallists had been born within the UK. Sky Brown, who was born in Japan, received bronze within the girls’s skateboarding, regardless of dislocating her shoulder per week earlier than Paris 2024.

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