How many Paris 2024 medallists come from your area?

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Getty Images Keely Hodgkinson holds a Union Jack emblem successful 1 manus and a crown connected her caput successful nan other. She is wearing a acheronian bluish vest pinch Great Britain and her sanction on. The crowd down her is blurred.Getty Images

Keely Hodgkinson celebrates her 800m golden medal

Team GB added 65 medals to their Olympics haul this year, beating their Tokyo full by 1 and creating moments that will spell down successful Olympics history.

But wherever did each these medals travel from crossed Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

We person taken a heavy dive into nan stats to find retired which nations and regions produced nan astir medal-winners this year, and which sports they conquered.

So - which parts of Team GB triumphed, and which struggled to get disconnected nan starting blocks?

As pinch our analysis of Team GB medals won betwixt 1896 and 2020, we've followed nan charismatic Olympics rules wherever a squad badge only counts once.

To cipher location success, we've divided nan badge by nan number successful nan team. So, each personification of a four-person relay wins 0.25 of a badge for their region.

Each athlete's region aliases federation has been wished by their spot of birth.

Capital gains

Historically, London has topped nan Team GB medals table, and Paris 2024 was nary different.

The region won 1.58 golds medals, 2.45 metallic and 4.86 bronze.

Across nan board, Team GB won nan fewest golden medals since Athens successful 2004.

However, athletes specified arsenic 19-year-old climber Toby Roberts and trap shooter Nathan Hales meant nan South East unsocial would person travel 20th successful nan charismatic Olympics badge table, pinch 3.41 golds.

Making a splash

The South West won Team GB's first creator swimming medal, pinch duet members Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman some hailing from Bristol.

The duo, who person been swimming together since they were nine, won metallic successful nan pool.

For Scotland, Duncan Scott continued his medal-winning ways.

He won a metallic successful nan men's 200m individual medley and was portion of nan gold-winning men's 4x200m freestyle, bringing his Olympic badge full to eight, the astir won by immoderate Scot.

Getty Images Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe guidelines smiling, holding up a Union Jack emblem down them. They are wearing achromatic tracksuits and are holding their metallic medals up.Getty Images

Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe triumph metallic successful creator swimming

The West Midlands was nan astir successful portion of Team GB erstwhile adjusted for population, winning 1.48 medals per 1 cardinal people.

All 4 of Team GB's canoe medals came from nan West Midlands, though it's improbable nan athletes learned their trade connected nan canals of Birmingham.

Cycling success

All of nan medals from Wales-born athletes this twelvemonth came from women's cycling events.

Emma Finucane won 2 individual bronzes successful nan women's kieran and nan individual sprint, and location were Welsh squad members for nan medal-winning women's squad pursuit, madison and squad sprint.

Two medallists were calved successful Northern Ireland, Rebecca Shorten and Hannah Scott.

Both won medals successful rowing - metallic successful nan women's 4 and golden successful nan women's quad sculls respectively.

Getty Images Emma Finucane sits connected her motorcycle pinch her hands raised, waving to nan crowd of Team GB fans down her. She is wearing a acheronian bluish Great Britain cycling suit and has  her achromatic helmet pushed up onto her head.Getty Images

Emma Finucane celebrates aft nan individual sprint final

Solo stars

Several of nan stars that captured sports fans' hearts heralded from nan North. Bryony Page, who soared to triumph successful nan women's trampolining, comes from nan North West, arsenic does 800m aureate woman Keely Hodgkinson.

In nan comparatively caller athletics of BMX freestyle, Keiran Reilly took nan metallic location for nan North East.

Getty Images Bryony Page, successful a bluish sparkly leotard, reacts successful daze pinch her hands raised to her look and her rima unfastened successful surpise. She is stood betwixt her coaches, 2 men successful achromatic t-shirts, who are clapping.Getty Images

Bryony Page reacts to winning gold

Getty Images Caden Cunningham stands pinch his arms stretched wide, a bluish helmet successful 1 hand. He is smiling and wearing each achromatic pinch a bluish vest pinch nan Paris 2024 logo on. The crowd down him is blurred.Getty Images

Caden Cunningham up of his semi-final match.

Other sports wherever Team GB only won 1 badge see weightlifting, pinch East Midlands-born Emily Campbell winning bronze successful nan women's 81kg, and boxing, pinch Lewis Richardson from nan East winning bronze successful nan men's 71kg.

Finally, not each Team GB medallists were calved successful nan UK. Sky Brown, who was calved successful Japan, won bronze successful nan women's skateboarding, contempt dislocating her shoulder a week earlier Paris 2024.

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