Great Britain at the Olympics
Medal Name ( s ) Games Sport Event
Gold Madge Syers 1908 London Figure Skating Ladies ' singles
Gold William Jackson Thomas Murray Robin Welsh Laurence Jackson 1924 Chamonix Curling Men 's event
Gold Great Britain men 's national ice hockey team 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Ice hockey Men 's event
Gold Jeannette Altwegg 1952 Oslo Figure skating Ladies ' singles
Gold Robin Dixon Tony Nash 1964 Innsbruck Bobsleigh Two man
Gold John Curry 1976 Innsbruck Figure skating Men 's singles
Gold Robin Cousins 1980 Lake Placid Figure skating Men 's singles
Gold Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean 1984 Sarajevo Figure skating Ice dancing
Gold Rhona Martin Debbie Knox Fiona MacDonald Janice Rankin Margaret Morton 2002 Salt Lake City Curling Women 's event
Gold Amy Williams 2010 Vancouver Skeleton Women 's event
Gold Lizzy Yarnold 2014 Sochi Skeleton Women 's event
Gold Lizzy Yarnold 2018 Pyeongchang Skeleton Women 's event
Silver Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson 1908 London Figure skating Pairs Skating
Silver Arthur Cumming 1908 London Figure skating Men 's special figures
Silver Ralph Broome Thomas Arnold Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher 1924 Chamonix Bobsleigh Four man
Silver Cecilia Colledge 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Figure skating Ladies ' singles
Silver Shelley Rudman 2006 Turin Skeleton Women 's event
Silver David Murdoch Greg Drummond Scott Andrews Michael Goodfellow Tom Brewster 2014 Sochi Curling Men 's event
Bronze Geoffrey Hall-Say 1908 London Figure skating Men 's special figures
Bronze Dorothy Greenhough-Smith 1908 London Figure skating Ladies ' singles
List of Winter Olympic medallists
This list also contains the medals won in winter sports at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics .
Athletes from the United Kingdom, all but three of its overseas territories, and the three Crown dependencies, compete in the Olympic Games as part of the team Great Britain or Team GB. It has sent athletes to every Summer and Winter Games, along with France and Switzerland, since the start of the Olympics' modern era in 1896, including the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics, which were boycotted by a number of other nations on each occasion. From 1896 to 2018 inclusive, Great Britain has won 851 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, and another 32 at the Winter Olympic Games. It is the only national team to have won at least one Gold Medal at every Summer Games, lying third globally in the winning of total medals, surpassed only by the United States and the former Soviet Union, and fourth behind Germany when considering gold medal totals. It is organised by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the National Olympic Committee for the UK. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and BOA both refer to the team as 'Great Britain' and the team uses the brand name Team GB, the BOA explains that it is a contraction of the full title, the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team. Great Britain was one of 14 teams to compete in the first Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, and is one of only three nations (France and Switzerland being the others) to have competed at every Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The most successful British Olympians by gold medals won are Sir Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, who have won six gold (and one silver) medals each in track cycling; two British Olympians come next with five gold medals - fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins, and Sir Steve Redgrave, who won five gold medals in five consecutive Games in rowing, a record for an endurance event. Sailor Sir Ben Ainslie jointly holds the Great Britain record for most individual Olympic gold medals with Chris Hoy and Sir Mo Farah with four, and the most gold medals in a single event with three gold medals (in the Men's Finn class sailing event 2004-2012) - again shared with Jason Kenny (men's team sprint 2008-2016), Steve Redgrave (men's coxless pair 1988-1996) and Ed Clancy (men's team pursuit 2008-2016). Sir Chris Hoy holds the record for gold medals in different events, having reached the top step in four different disciplines - men's kilo, men's team sprint, men's match sprint and men's kierin. Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins has the most overall medals by a British Olympian (and thus often referred to in the media as the most decorated British Olympian) with eight. Sir Steve Redgrave is the only British Olympian to win a gold medal in five consecutive Olympic Games, winning his first in 1984 Los Angeles and last in 2000 Sydney.