Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee President, said: “You can also feel, see, hear the excitement growing, not only in Paris but all of France.
“More than six million people lined the streets of France to watch the Olympic flame.
“What commitment… Everybody is excited about the Games and longing for the moment it finally starts.”
Great Britain has 327 athletes competing across 24 sports, with the youngest 16-year-old skateboarder Sky Brown and the oldest 57-year-old Carl Hester in dressage.
The team comprises 169 veterans of the Olympic Games and 74 former medallists including 33 Olympic champions.
Remarkably, there are also 18 athletes who competed at London 2012 who will be returning to the Games 12 years later.
We take a look at who will be taking part on behalf of Team GB.
Who is in Team GB?
Archery
Conor Hall – men’s team
Tom Hall – men’s team
Alex Wise – men’s team
Penny Healey – women’s team
Bryony Pitman – women’s team
Megan Havers – women’s team
Bryony Pitman is part of Team GB’s Paris 2024 Archery team. (Photo credit: David Davies/PA)
Team GB’s Tom Daley (left) and diving partner Noah Williams during a training session at the London Aquatics Centre (Photo: John Walton/PA)
Equestrian
Charlotte Dujardin – Dressage
Carl Hester – Dressage
Charlotte Fry – Dressage
Becky Moody – Dressage
Rosalind Canter – Eventing
Yasmin Ingham – Eventing
Laura Collett – Eventing
Tom McEwen – Eventing
Scott Brash – Showjumping
Harry Charles – Showjumping
Ben Maher – Showjumping
Joseph Stockdale – Showjumping
Tom McEwen with JL Dublin will compete in eventing in Paris (Photo: David Davies/PA)
Golf
Tommy Fleetwood -men’s
Matt Fitzpatrick – men’s
Georgia Hall – women’s
Charley Hull – women’s
Gymnastics – Artistic and Trampoline
Joe Fraser – Men’s artistic
Harry Hepworth – Men’s artistic
Jake Jarman – Men’s artistic
Luke Whitehouse – Men’s artistic
Max Whitlock – Men’s artistic
Becky Downie – Women’s artistic
Ruby Evans, – Women’s artistic
Georgia-Mae Fenton, – Women’s artistic
Alice Kinsella – Women’s artistic
Abigail Martin – Women’s artistic
Zak Perzamanos – Men’s trampoline
Bryony Page – Women’s trampoline
Izzy Songhurst – Women’s trampoline
Gymnast Max Whitlock OBE will be hoping to add to his medal collection in Paris (Photo: Naomi Baker/Getty)
Hockey
Women’s team:
Miriam Pritchard (GK)
Giselle Ansley
Hollie Pearne-Webb (captain)
Anna Toman
Amy Costello
Fiona Crackles
Laura Roper
Flora Peel
Sophie Hamilton
Lily Owsley
Izzy Petter
Tess Howard
Sarah Jones
Charlotte Watson
Sarah Robertson
Hannah French
Amy Costello during a Team GB kitting out session for the Paris Olympics 2024 (Photo: Jacob King/PA )
Men’s team:
Ollie Payne (GK)
Nick Park
Gareth Furlong
Conor Williamson
Liam Sanford
James Albery
David Ames
Jacob Draper
Jack Waller
David Goodfield
Zach Wallace
Phil Roper
Rupert Shipperley
Will Calnan
Sam Ward
Lee Morton
Judo
Chelsie Giles – -52kg
Lucy Renshall – -63kg
Emma Reid – -78kg
Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown – -70kg
Lele Nairne – -57kg
Modern Pentathlon
Joe Choong – Men’s event
Charlie Brown – Men’s event
Kate French – Women’s event
Kerenza Bryson – Women’s event
Joe Choong is part of the team representing Great Britain in the modern pentathlon (Photo: Mike Egerton/PA )
Rowing
Heidi Long – Women’s eight
Rowan McKellar – Women’s eight
Holly Dunford – Women’s eight
Emily Ford – Women’s eight
Lauren Irwin – Women’s eight
Eve Stewart – Women’s eight
Hattie Taylor – Women’s eight
Annie Campbell-Orde – Women’s eight
Henry Fieldman – Women’s eight
Sholto Carnegie – Men’s eight
Rory Gibbs – Men’s eight
Morgan Bolding – Men’s eight
Jacob Dawson – Men’s eight
Charlie Elwes – Men’s eight
Tom Digby – Men’s eight
James Rudkin – Men’s eight
Tom Ford – Men’s eight
Harry Brightmore – Men’s eight
Helen Glover – Women’s four
Esme Booth – Women’s four
Sam Redgrave – Women’s four
Rebecca Shorten – Women’s four
Oli Wilkes – Men’s four
David Ambler – Men’s four
Matt Aldridge – Men’s four
Freddie Davidson – Men’s four
Lauren Henry – Women’s quadruple sculls
Hannah Scott – Women’s quadruple sculls
Lola Anderson – Women’s quadruple sculls
Georgie Brayshaw – Women’s quadruple sculls
Tom Barras – Men’s quadruple sculls
Callum Dixon – Men’s quadruple sculls
Matt Haywood – men’s quadruple sculls
Graeme Thomas – Men’s quadruple sculls
Emily Craig – Lightweight women’s double sculls
Imogen Grant – Lightweight women’s double sculls
Becky Wilde – Women’s double sculls
Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne – Women’s double sculls
Ollie Wynne-Griffith – Men’s pair
Tom George – Men’s pair
Chloe Brew – Women’s pair
Rebecca Edwards – Women’s pair
Great Britain’s Women’s quadruple sculls Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw in training for Paris 2024 (Photo: Steven Paston/PA)
Rugby Sevens
Amy Wilson Hardy
Ellie Boatman
Ellie Kildunne
Emma Uren (C)
Grace Crompton
Heather Cowell
Isla Norman-Bell
Jade Shekells
Jasmine Joyce
Lauren Torley
Lisa Thomson
Meg Jones
Sailing
John Gimson – Mixed Multihull (Nacra 17)
Anna Burnet – Mixed Multihull (Nacra 17)
Chris Grube – Mixed Dinghy (470)
Vita Heathcote – Mixed Dinghy (470)
James Peters – Men’s Skiff (49er)
Fynn Sterritt – Men’s Skiff (49er)
Freya Black – Women’s Skiff (49erFX)
Saskia Tidey – Women’s Skiff (49erFX)
Emma Wilson – Women’s Windsurfing (iQFOiL)
Sam Sills – Men’s Windsurfing (iQFOiL)
Ellie Aldridge – Women’s Kite (Formula Kite)
Connor Bainbridge – Men’s Kite (Formula Kite)
Michael Beckett – Men’s Dinghy (ILCA 7)
Hannah Snellgrove – Women’s Dinghy (ILCA 6)
Shooting
Michael Bargeron – 10m air rifle / 50m rifle 3P / 10m mixed team
Matthew Coward-Holley – Olympic Trap
Nathan Hales – Olympic Trap
Lucy Hall – Olympic Trap
Seonaid McIntosh – 10m air rifle / 50m rifle 3P / 10m mixed team
Amber Rutter – Olympic Skeet
Team GB Olympic Shooting team left to right Amber Rutter, Nathan Hales, Seonaid McIntosh, Michael Bargeron, Lucy Hall, Matt Coward-Holley (Photo: David Davies/PA)
Skateboarding
Sky Brown – Women’s park
Lola Tambling – Women’s park
Andy Macdonald – Men’s park
Sport Climbing
Toby Roberts – Men’s boulder and lead
Hamish McArthur – Men’s boulder and lead
Molly Thompson-Smith – Women’s lead and boulder
Erin McNeice – Women’s lead and boulder
Molly Thompson-Smith will represent Team GB in sport climbing (Photo: Joe Giddens/PA)
Swimming
Women’s team:
Freya Anderson
Freya Colbert
Kathleen Dawson
Angharad Evans
Medi Harris
Lucy Hope
Anna Hopkin
Keanna MacInnes
Eva Okaro
Honey Osrin,
Katie Shanahan
Laura Stephens
Abbie Wood
Men’s team:
Kieran Bird
Alex Cohoon
Tom Dean
Luke Greenbank
James Guy
Daniel Jervis
Joe Litchfield
Max Litchfield
Jonathon Marshall
Jack McMillan
Oliver Morgan
Adam Peaty
Ben Proud
Matt Richards
Duncan Scott
Jacob Whittle
James Wilby
Marathon swimming:
Leah Crisp
Hector Pardoe
Toby Robinson
Part of the team GB swim team are (left to right) Kathleen Dawson, Katie Shanahan, Duncan Scott, Angharad Evans, Lucy Hope, and Keanna MacInnes (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA)
Previously, Team GB has won 51 (Beijing 2008), 65 (London 2012), 67 (Rio 2016) and 64 (Tokyo 2020) medals, finishing fourth in the Tokyo 2020 medal table with 22 gold, 20 silver and 22 bronze medals.
Dr Kate Baker, UK Sport Director of Performance said: “GB currently boasts 41 current world champions in Olympic disciplines and a further 61 in Paralympic disciplines, highlighting the immense talent across our sports.
“We want to continue our streak of top five Olympic medal table finishes, but that won’t be easy.”
GB medal hopes are being pinned on runner Keely Hodgkinson who has odds of 2/5 with bookmakers William Hill to win gold in the 800m event.
Fellow track athlete Matthew Hudson-Smith has odds of 5/4 to bring back gold from the men’s 400m.
Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty is going for gold in Paris (Photo: John Walton/PA)
And former Olympic champion swimmer Adam Peaty is 11/10 to take the top spot in the Men’s 100m breaststroke.
Bet 365 has odds of 8/15 that team GB’s gold meal haul will exceed 15.
On the track, it has picked out triathlete Alex Yee, the mixed relay team, Ben Pattison in the men’s 800m, Amber Anning in the women’s 400m, Keely Hodgkinson in the women’s 800m, Laura Muir in the women’s 1500m and Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the heptathlon as potential contenders.
In cycling, Tom Pidcock and Bethany Shriever have been name dropped.
Super heavyweight Delicious Orie and welterweight Rosie Eccles are medal favourites in boxing.
And Kate French and Joseph Chong are carrying gold hopes in the modern pentathlon for team GB, according to Bet365.
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