Great Britain National Thread

[Quasit 955]

Team GB medals after Day 15

 

Rank	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2	27	22	17	66

 

Farah and Adams maintained their Olympic titles from London, Liam Heath won the K-1 200m and we also got some bronzes from Vicky Holland, Bianca Walkden and the women's 4x400 relay. With that, the total of London 2012 has been surpassed, with one more secure medal to come today.

Great job for the best British team ever indeed. I've never expected second place ahead of China!

[Quasit 955]

Day 16 Finals

 

Athletics - Men's Marathon

 

Callum Hawkins

Derek Hawkins

Tsegay Tewelde

 

Basketball - Men's Tournament

 

no British participation

 

Boxing - Women's Middleweight

 

no British participation

 

Boxing - Men's Flyweight

 

no British participation

 

Boxing - Men's Light Welterweight

 

no British participation

 

Boxing - Men's Super Heavyweight

 

Joe Joyce

 

Cycling (MTB) - Men's Cross-Country

 

Grant Ferguson

 

Gymnastics (Rhythmic) - Women's Group All-Around

 

no British participation

 

Handball - Men's Tournament

 

no British participation

 

Volleyball - Men's Tournament

 

no British participation

 

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle -65kg

 

no British participation

 

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle -97kg

 

no British participation

 

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[Quasit 955]

Team GB medals after Day 16

 

Rank	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2	27	23	17	67

 

Joe Joyce wins the 67th and final medal for Team GB, a silver.

 

Great Britain won medals in 19 different sports and at least one gold medal comes from 15 different sports. More than any other country so in that regard, GB is the best.

 

1. Great Britain - golds in 15 sports

2. United States - golds in 13 sports

3. China - golds in 10 sports

4. Germany - golds in 9 sports

4. Russia - golds in 9 sports

 

1. United States - medals in 22 sports

2. China - medals in 19 sports

2. Germany - medals in 19 sports

2. Great Britain - medals in 19 sports

5. Russia - medals in 17 sports

Edited August 21, 2016 by Quasit

[hckošice 16,645]

 

no more to say about GB in Rio just mouth open and wathcing ! respect

 

 

PS. and a + for Quasit in leading the thread. great job

[Nickyc707 382]

I'd like to echo Hckosice's comments regarding Quasit's contribution!  ☺

Edited August 21, 2016 by Nickyc707
mispelling

[uk12points 434]

Team GB with 16 4th place finishes is equally as impressive and shows growing strength and depth, exciting times for British sport and I hope this time grassroot levels also capitalise on a new wave of sports enthusiasm.

Edited August 21, 2016 by uk12points

[uk12points 434]

Plan to turn GB into snowsport superpower

Britain aims to be one of the World's top 5 dominant powers in snowsports by 2030

 

Well that's the plan revealed today by British Ski Snowboard and the team behind making it a reality is some of the same team behind the success of British Cycling and Team Sky.

The UK’s national governing body has marked out a clear strategy working towards Great Britain challenging for world class and Olympic medals, not only in the Park and Pipe disciplines where they are already one of the leading nations, but in all skiing and snowboarding disciplines.

The first phase of the vision will involve following in the footsteps of GB Park and Pipe and putting in place a world-class coaching structure for each Olympic discipline. With these coaches, British Ski and Snowboard will develop the longer term strategic plans geared towards medal success. The plans will be based around identifying, supporting and retaining the best British snowsport talent and engaging them in sustainable, funded, high performance programmes aimed towards podium success at major international competitions and the Olympic Games.

Raising funds to bring this vision to reality will also be a key part of the strategy, with British Ski and Snowboard approaching fundraising in a number of unique ways. At the start of the season, the innovative British Snowsports Fund was launched. The Fund asks the UK’s recreational skiers and snowboarders to make a small donation to the country’s future Winter Olympians when they make a purchase with one of our confirmed industry partners. The scheme currently has 25 partners, including major travel companies and retailers. The British Snowsports Fund was launched alongside a new grant-making charity, the British Ski and Snowboard National Foundation, which will support young talented skiers and snowboarders as well as efforts to increase grassroots participation in the sports.

With British athletes already clinching five World Cup podiums, two X Games medals, and an Air + Style podium, 2016-17 has already proved a fruitful season for British Ski and Snowboard, particularly for the GB Park and Pipe team. And with the Alpine World Ski Championships already in full swing, and the Freestyle, Snowboard and Nordic World Championships on the horizon, there is still room for even more British snowsports success this season.

That means investment and performance programs will be set up in events Britain hasn't ever had a serious chance of a medal in like Ski Jumping, Alpine Snowboard, Moguls and Aerials.

The new plan aims to deliver progress over the coming decade and take Britain from a nation that needed 90 years to win its first Olympic medal on the snow and make it one capable of claiming up to 12 in a single go.

 

[Quasit 955]

UK Sport reduced funding for Weightlifting, Table Tennis, Badminton, Fencing and Archery to absolute zero for the Tokyo 2020 cycle.

I'm not going to comment further about how ridiculous that is. A slap in the face to the men's foil and badminton team, especially.

Edited February 20, 2017 by Quasit

[Olympian1010 8,322]

 Happy Independence Day tyrannical overlords!!! 

[Nickyc707 382]

Not so much if you were you were a native or African American! Anyway judging by your current POTUS you guys seem to be quite keen on tyrants these days with the possible exception of Chinese ones. In any event have a great day and take care with the celebrations given current circumstances.