Olympic Games. David Attenborough and 5 other Instagram record breakers! Paris 2024 . Menu. Prospects: Gold digger. Team GB won silver in the ever first rugby sevens final in the Olympics, after losing the gold medal match 43-7 to Fiji at the Deodoro Stadium. Vicky Holland broke records when she bagged Team GB a Bronze medal, by becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic Triathlon. Callum Skinner, Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes defeated New Zealand in the men’s cycling sprint final to earn Great Britain a fourth gold medal at the Olympics. Team GB's cycling team pursuit quartet took the gold, and set a new world record in the process. But Ainslie’s Olympic ambitions are now over. Pictograms from left to right: BMX, Mountain, Road and Track cycling. Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita ran a British record of 41.77 seconds in Rio's Olympic Stadium - Amazing! She's now a double Olympic champion, having won gold at London 2012 as well. London 2012 . Cyclist Jason Kenny won his fifth Olympic gold medal in the men's sprint final at Rio 2016. All the best photo and video highlights of Cycling Mountain Bike at the Rio 2016 Summer Games Olympics, plus official results and medals by event and athlete. It's his third Olympic Games in which he's won a medal - he won bronze at Beijing in 2008 and silver in London in 2012. Cyclist Becky James bagged a silver medal for Team GB in the keirin on day eight. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Team GB's Justin Rose became golf's first Olympic champion since 1904, when the sport was last in the Games. Beijing 2022 . It's his second medal of the Games, after he won a gold with teammate Chris Mears in the 3m synchro. When a nation sets the bar as high as GB did in Beijing and London, it’s easy for people to chase you, and copy you. Prospects: Going for gold, Only fifth in the world, but the Olympic champion had a late start to the season. But he said he was disappointed not have been able to hold on to top spot after having won gold at the London Olympics back in 2012. She won a Bronze medal in the women's +67kg category. Victory takes Kenny's gold tally in Rio to two after he was part of the British team that won the men's team sprint earlier in the week. Heroic horse-rider Nick Skelton jumped his way to a gold medal in the Team Jumping event, becoming our second-oldest Olympian! That means he's got as many Olympic golds as the record holder, Sir Chris Hoy, who's also a cyclist. Jess was emotional after the race, hinting that it might be the last time she competes. Following on from his Wimbledon win this summer, British tennis star Andy Murray successfully defended his Olympic title and got his hands on a gold medal once again in the men's tennis singles. It's the fifth time in a row that Team GB has won the men's four, and previous winners include Sir Steve Redgrave. Close behind Max in the men's pommel horse was Louis Smith, who took the silver medal. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Olympic Games; Olympic Winter Games; Youth Olympic Games; All . The 21-year-old won the 100m breaststroke final on Sunday night. That race is all that matters.”. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Prospects: 24 carat gold. In addition to the event records, Great Britain's Jason Kenny matched compatriate Chris Hoy as the most successful male cyclist in Olympic history, with six gold medals and a silver over three Games. Rio 2016 . In the table below, "s.t." This week marks a year until the start of Rio 2016, which will, it has to be admitted, be a different experience for Team GB and its supporters. But she has become the world’s leading female eventer and ought to be Olympic favourite. No changes were made to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics. Steven Burke, Owain Doull, Edward Clancy and Bradley Wiggins beat their Australian rivals by almost a second, completing the 4km race in three minutes 50.265 seconds. [5] After four laps of the Grumari sector (99.2 km of 241.5 km), the course returned east via the same coastal road to enter the 25.7 km (16.0 mi) Vista Chinesa Circuit loop at Gávea for three laps (77.1 km (47.9 mi) of 241.5 km (150.1 mi)) before finishing back at Fort Copacabana. All the best photo and video highlights of Cycling Track at the Rio 2016 Summer Games Olympics, plus official results and medals by event and athlete. "It has been a hard eight years, we've worked really hard and to come out with a medal at the Olympics is fantastic," said David Florence and Richard Hounslow as they won silver in the canon slalom double. Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis celebrate after winning the men's badminton doubles bronze medal match. Becky was in last position with one lap to go, but pushed forward with enough speed to cross the line in second position. At least one record in track cycling was set, the women's team pursuit Olympic record. The team of Katie Greves, Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton, Polly Swann, Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown, Karen Bennett, and Zoe Lee and Zoe de Toledo (coxing) came in two seconds behind the US.