![]() ![]() Once again, swimming and athletics were the core of the US Olympic performance, providing 56 medals including 18 golds (50% of their total medals, 46% of total golds). Swimming Cycling - Track Sailing Boxing AthleticsĬycling - Track Athletics Rowing Gymnastics - Artistic SwimmingĬycling - Track Rowing Athletics Boxing SailingĬycling - Track Sailing Athletics Rowing Track cycling and athletics are the only sports in which Team GB have won at least four medals in at each of the last four Olympic Games. Neither China nor USA won medals in as many sports as Great Britain. Great Britain won medals in just 12 sport-discipline combinations as recently as Sydney 2000. Medals were won by Team GB in 25 different sport-discipline combinations, breaking the record of 23 set at Rio 2016. Great Britain's strength is in the number of sport-discipline combinations the country medals in. This was Britain's best ever swimming performance. We've grouped some sports together for this chart In weightlifting only four world records went - three to the same person Georgian super-heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze - compared to eight in Rio." British strength in breadth Team GB won medals in 25 different sport-disciplines in Tokyo - more than any other country. Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis at Nielsen Gracenote, said: "The 22 world records broken in Tokyo is down on the 27 in Rio five years ago despite the addition of another sport, sport climbing, in which records can be broken. And Britain's history-making swimming team set a new world record time in the 4x100m mixed medley relay.īut despite some pre-Games concern over shoe technology having too much sway in athletics especially, there were fewer records set in Japan. ![]() Norway's Karsten Warholm ran an astonishing 45.94 second men's 400m hurdles race to obliterate his previous world record and take gold at Tokyo 2020, in one of the moments of the Games.
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