As soon as the 2020 Olympics started it was over so soon! This had been delayed like the Football Euro’s was and we got confused calling that Euro 2020 so for us we stuck with bringing you everything for Team GB Olympics 2021!
Who topped the medal table? Where did Team GB finish?
A drop in medals for Team GB Olympics 2021?
Our predictions before it started
Hosts Japan are expected to improve their Rio figures by nearly 50%, bringing them to 60. This will be due to a mix of more medals in the country’s strongest sports as well as potential success in the new sports of skateboarding, sport climbing and baseball.
Team GB is forecast to finish 5th, they finished 3rd in Rio, 3 years ago. But it would be the fourth successive summer Games in which Team GB has finished in the top five in terms of total medals.
It is predicted there will be a drop of 15 medals from 2016, giving Britain a total of 52, because of lower expectations in track cycling, artistic gymnastics, and rowing.
Who will win what for Team GB Olympics 2021?
Our predictions before it started
Of those 52 medals predicted for Team GB, 14 are expected to be gold. But who will win them?
Adam Peaty is the obvious one, expected to defend his 100m breaststroke title from Rio, while gymnast Max Whitlock is also tipped to retain his pommel horse gold.
Also backed to defend their titles are sprint canoeist Liam Heath, taekwondo star Jade Jones, and diver Jack Laugher in the synchronised 3m springboard, this time with Daniel Goodfellow.
In athletics, the men’s 4x100m relay squad are forecast to win gold, as is the men’s 4x100m medley relay quartet in swimming.
Also in line to take the top step of the podium are boxer Lauren Price, Laura Collett and Ben Maher in equestrian, shooters Seonaid McIntosh and sailors Anna Burnet and John Gimson in the mixed Nacra 17.
In rowing, Britain’s men’s four – this time consisting of Ollie Cook, Matt Rossiter, Rory Gibbs and Sholto Carnegie – are expected to win the Olympic title for a sixth successive Games, a run dating back to Sydney 2000.
Among those in line for silver are athletes Dina Asher-Smith (200m), Laura Muir (1500m) and Jemma Reekie (800m), diver Tom Daley (10m platform), Kate French in the women’s modern pentathlon, triathlete Jess Learmonth and weightlifter Emily Campbell.
In track cycling, only two medals – both silver – are forecast, in the women’s team pursuit and men’s team sprint.
Team GB’s women’s hockey team, victorious in Rio, are projected to claim bronze.
Who will be the international stars of the Games?
Our predictions before this started
Simone Biles is top of our list, the 24-year-old American gymnast won five medals, including four golds, at her debut Games in Rio, and should be doing about the same for Tokyo.
Other athletes anticipated to win multiple medals include swimmers Katie Ledecky (US), Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) and Caeleb Dressel (US), athletics stars Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda), Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) and Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bahamas), and track cyclists Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands), Lee Wai Sze (Hong Kong) and Emma Hinze (Germany).
In the road cycling, Anna van der Breggen and Annemiek van Vleuten (both Netherlands) are predicted to dominate the women’s races.
Look out too for two-time world champion Logan Martin (Australia) and three-time world champion Hannah Roberts (US) in the men’s and women’s BMX park events.
Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, the European gold and world silver medallist, is also set to make an eagerly-awaited Olympic debut.
Team GB Olympics 2021 medals?
Chelsea Giles won the first medal for Team GB, bronze in the judo.
Bradly Sinden won silver in the Taekwondo.
Alex Yee won silver in the individual men’s triathlon.
Adam Peaty won gold in the 100m breaststroke. The double champion has more events to come.
Tom Daley and Matty Lee won gold in the synchronised diving 10m platform.
Tom Pidcock won gold in the mountain bike cross country cycling.
Lauren Williams won silver in the Taekwondo.
Tom Dean won Gold in the 200m freestyle and Duncan Scott won Silver in the same event.
Georgia Taylor-Brown won the triathlon Silver.
Bianca Walkden took Bronze in the taekwondo.
GB women took the Bronze medal in the Gymnastics Team event.
Team GB Olympics 2021 dressage took team Bronze.
Charlotte Dujardin took Bronze in the individual dressage and became Great Britain’s most decorated female Olympian.
Matthew Coward-Holley took Bronze in the men’s trap shooting.
Won Gold in the men’s quadruple sculls in rowing – Tom Barras, Jack Beaumont, Angus Groom and Harry Leask.
Mallory Franklin won Silver in the women’s canoe slalom.
Won Gold in the men’s 4 x 200m freestyle swimming relay – Tom Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott.
Silver for Kye Whyte in the BMX men’s race and Gold for Bethany Shriever in the BMX women’s race.
Duncan Scott won silver in the men’s 200m individual medley.
Luke Greenbank took bronze in the 200m backstroke.
Men’s team won a bronze in the rowing.
Bryony Page won a bronze in the women’s trampoling.
Won Gold in the triathlon mixed relay.
Won Gold in the 4 x 100m medley relay in swimming.
Emma Wilson won Bronze in windsurfing RS:X.
Karriss Artingstall won Bronze in the 57kg boxing.
Charlotte Worthington won Gold in the BMX Freestyle. Declan Brooks won Bronze in the BMX Freestyle.
Won Silver in the 4 X 100m swimming medley relay – Team GB Olympics 2021.
Max Whitlock retains his pommel horse title with Gold.
Won Gold in the team Equestrian eventing – Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen.
Tom McEwen won Silver in the individual equestrian eventing.
Emily Campbell won Silver in the +87kg weightlifting.
Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell won Gold in the Sailing 49er.
Giles Scott won Gold in the Finn Sailing.
John Gimson and Anna Burnet won Silver in the Nacra 17 Foiling Swimming – Team GB Olympics 2021.
Jack Laugher won Bronze in the 3m Springboard.
Won Silver in the women’s team pursuit in the cycling.
Won Silver in the men’s team sprint in the cycling.
Pat McCormack won Silver in the 69kg welterweight boxing.
Keely Hodgkinson won Silver in the 800m track.
Sky Brown won Bronze in Skateboarding. She became the youngest person to win an Olympic medal for Team GB at 13 years old.
Frazer Clarke won Bronze in the super heavyweight boxing.
Ben Whittaker won Silver in the light heavyweight boxing.
Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre won Gold in the women’s 470 sailing.
Ben Maher won Gold in the equestrian jumping.
Liam Heath won Bronze in the canoe sprint.
Matt Walls won Gold in the cycling Omnium.
Holly Bradshaw won Bronze in the pole vault.
Women’s hockey team on Bronze.
Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny won Gold in the Madison cycling.
Jack Carlin won Bronze in the men’s sprint cycling.
Kate French won Gold in the modern pentathlon.
Laura Muir won Silver in the women’s 1500m.
Won bronze in the 4 X 100m women’s relay.
Won Silver in the 4 x 100m men’s relay.
Won Gold in 52kg flyweight boxing for Galal Yafai.
Tom Daley won Bronze in 10m diving platform.
Ethan Hayter and Matt Walls won Silver in the Madison cycling.
Joe Choong won Gold in the Modern Pentathlon.
Josh Kerr won Bronze in the 1500m.
Jason Kenny won Gold in the Keirin cycling.
Lauren Price won Gold in the 75kg middleweight boxing.
The medals table top 10
| NAME | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL |
| USA | 39 | 41 | 33 | 113 |
| China | 38 | 32 | 18 | 88 |
| Japan | 27 | 14 | 17 | 58 |
| Great Britain | 22 | 21 | 22 | 65 |
| ROC | 20 | 28 | 23 | 71 |
| Australia | 17 | 7 | 22 | 46 |
| Netherlands | 10 | 12 | 14 | 36 |
| France | 10 | 12 | 11 | 33 |
| Germany | 10 | 11 | 16 | 37 |
| Italy | 10 | 10 | 20 | 40 |
Didn’t they do well! Looking forward to Paris in 2024 but before that we have the Paralympic Games 24th August – 5th September
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