Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medal Name Sport Event Date
Gold Adam Peaty Swimming Men 's 100 m breaststroke 7 August
Gold Joe Clarke Canoeing Men 's K-1 10 August
Gold Jack Laugher Chris Mears Diving Men 's 3 m synchronized springboard 10 August
Gold Philip Hindes Jason Kenny Callum Skinner Cycling Men 's team sprint 11 August
Gold Helen Glover Heather Stanning Rowing Women 's coxless pair 12 August
Gold Alex Gregory Constantine Louloudis George Nash Mohamed Sbihi Rowing Men 's coxless four 12 August
Gold Steven Burke Ed Clancy Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins Cycling Men 's team pursuit 12 August
Gold Paul Bennett Scott Durant Matt Gotrel Matt Langridge Tom Ransley Pete Reed William Satch Andrew Triggs Hodge Phelan Hill Rowing Men 's eight 13 August
Gold Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Joanna Rowsell Laura Trott Cycling Women 's team pursuit 13 August
Gold Mo Farah Athletics Men 's 10,000 m 13 August
Gold Max Whitlock Gymnastics Men 's floor 14 August
Gold Justin Rose Golf Men 's individual 14 August
Gold Max Whitlock Gymnastics Men 's pommel horse 14 August
Gold Jason Kenny Cycling Men 's sprint 14 August
Gold Andy Murray Tennis Men 's singles 14 August
Gold Charlotte Dujardin Equestrian Individual dressage 15 August
Gold Giles Scott Sailing Finn 16 August
Gold Laura Trott Cycling Women 's omnium 16 August
Gold Jason Kenny Cycling Men 's keirin 16 August
Gold Alistair Brownlee Triathlon Men 's triathlon 18 August
The United Kingdom, appearing as Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016 and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland, though Great Britain is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at all of them. Although the British Olympic Association is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Northern Irish athletes can choose whether to compete for Great Britain or for the Republic of Ireland, as they are entitled to citizenship of either nation under the Good Friday Agreement. In 2016 Northern Ireland born representatives in Team GB included returning rowers Alan Campbell, Peter Chambers and Richard Chambers, archer Patrick Huston and four members of the men's field hockey team: David Ames, Mark Gleghorne, Iain Lewers and Ian Sloan. The team also represents, and included representation from, the Crown dependencies, among which were Guernsey's Heather Watson and Carl Hester, and from the ten of the thirteen British Overseas Territories represented by the BOA rather than their own NOC, whose representatives include Turks and Caicos-born sprinter Delano Williams and Anguillan-born long jumper Shara Proctor
These Games were the most successful for Great Britain since 1908, winning a total of 67 medals, which exceeded its London 2012 tally of 65 medals, therefore becoming the first nation to surpass its medal total at the Olympics immediately following one that it hosted. Great Britain also became one of only two nations (the other being Azerbaijan) ever to increase the number of medals achieved in five consecutive Games. In cycling male cyclist Jason Kenny became only the second British athlete since 1908 to win three gold medals at the same Olympic Games to join Sir Chris Hoy as the most successful all time British Olympians with six gold medals and a silver, while gold for Sir Bradley Wiggins confirmed him as the most decorated British Olympian, with eight medals (five gold) over five Games. Kenny also became the sixth British Olympian to win an Olympic gold in the same event (men's team sprint) at three successive Games, joining three pre-war water polo players Paul Radmilovic (1908-1920, interrupted by the cancelled Games of 1916), George Wilkinson and Charles Sydney Smith (both 1904-1912), rower Steve Redgrave (in men's coxless pair from 1988 to 1996)) and sailor Ben Ainslie (in the Finn class between 2004-2012). Kenny was immediately followed onto this list by a seventh 'three-peat', fellow cyclist Ed Clancy, who sealed his third consecutive team pursuit gold medal. Indeed, Clancy and Kenny, along with American road cyclist Kristin Armstrong (in women's time trial) became the first three cyclists to ever achieve the feat. Cyclist Laura Trott also won two gold medals to become Britain's most successful all time female Olympian with a total of four golds, dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin having briefly taken that title with three golds and a silver from previous incumbent cyclist Victoria Pendleton. Katherine Grainger's fifth consecutive medal, a silver, made her Britain's joint most decorated female Olympian, with Kathleen McKane Godfree and made her one of only five British Olympians (with Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Ben Ainslie, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Jack Beresford) to win medals in five Games running.