Welsh athletes achieve record Olympic medal haul

Welsh athletes person achieved a grounds Olympics badge haul successful Paris arsenic portion of Team GB's return.

The Welsh contingent will caput backmost from France pinch a full of 13 medals - 3 golds, 3 silvers and 7 bronze.

The badge haul thumps nan tally of 10 achieved astatine Rio 2016 which was made up of 4 golds and six silvers.

The Games successful Brazil stay officially Wales' astir successful Olympics because of nan number of golds won.

In Tokyo 3 years ago, Welsh athletes returned pinch 8 medals - 3 gold, 3 metallic and 2 bronze.

In Paris, rowing and cycling were nan astir successful sports for Welsh athletes, pinch 5 podium positions coming successful each of those sports.

There were besides 2 swimming medals, from Matt Richards, and an athletics relay bronze for sprinter Jeremiah Azu.

There were immoderate notable individual efforts, pinch sprint cyclist Emma Finucane becoming nan first Welsh jock to triumph 3 medals - a golden and 2 bronze - astatine 1 Olympics successful her debut Games.

The 21-year-old from Carmarthen besides became nan first British female since jock Mary Rand to return a hat-trick of podium finishes astatine a azygous Games.

Finucane's chap way cyclist Elinor Barker became nan first Welsh female to triumph 4 Olympic medals successful her career, pinch a metallic and bronze successful Paris adding to squad pursuit golden and metallic successful Rio and Tokyo respectively.

Finucane claimed 2 individual medals and Richards achieved a solo silver, pinch nan remainder of nan Welsh podium finishes coming successful squad events.

GOLD

Matt Richards & Kieran Bird (swimming - men’s 4x200m freestyle relay)

Emma Finucane (cycling - women’s squad sprint)

Harry Brightmore (rowing - men’s eight, cox)

SILVER

Matt Richards (swimming - men’s 200m freestyle)

Ollie Wynne-Griffith (rowing - men’s pair)

Elinor Barker (cycling - women’s madison)

BRONZE

Eve Stewart (rowing - women’s eight)

Matt Aldridge (rowing - men’s four)

Becky Wilde (rowing - women’s double sculls)

Elinor Barker, Jess Roberts, Anna Morris (cycling - women’s squad pursuit)

Emma Finucane (cycling - women’s keirin)

Jeremiah Azu (athletics - men’s 4x100m relay)

Emma Finucane (cycling - women's sprint).

The first Welsh golden came successful nan pool, in nan men's 4x200m freestyle relay, pinch Welsh duo Matt Richards and Kieran Bird involved.

Richards swam successful nan last pinch James Guy, Tom Dean and Duncan Scott, while Bird was besides fixed a golden aft competing successful nan heats.

Harry Brightmore says nan alleviation of coxing Great Britain's men's eights to golden at nan Paris Olympics has fixed him peace.

The 30-year-old came into nan Games disconnected nan backmost of coxing nan squad to successive world titles successful 2022 and 2023.

Matt Richards missed retired connected Olympic golden by 0.02 seconds but took metallic successful a thrilling 200m freestyle final successful Paris.

Out successful lane 1 aft qualifying seventh fastest, Richards came agonisingly adjacent arsenic Romania's rising prima David Popovici touched first to triumph golden by a fingertip.

Welsh rower Ollie Wynne-Griffith and his puerility friend Tom George were pipped to nan golden badge in nan men's pair successful a melodramatic finale.

Wynne-Griffith and George led for nan mostly of nan title and looked group to triumph but Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic charged past them successful nan closing 20m and won by 0.45 seconds to clasp their title.

Elinor Barker and Neah Evans won a hard-earned metallic successful an enthralling madison.

A immense push connected nan last sprint gave world champions Barker and Evans a full of 31 points, six down golden medallists Italy.

Welsh rower Eve Stewart won a bronze badge successful nan women's 8 with Romania claiming nan golden and Canada winning silver.

Becky Wilde celebrated bronze badge successful nan women's double sculls pinch Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, arsenic nan Team GB brace vanished down winners New Zealand and Romania.

Welsh trio Elinor Barker, Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts formed 75% of nan Great Britain women's squad pursuit squad who timed a precocious complaint against Italy to triumph nan bronze badge race.

Emma Finucane took bronze successful nan women's keirin to triumph a "surreal" 2nd badge of nan Paris Olympics.

Welsh sprinter Jeremiah Azu won an Olympic bronze as portion of nan Great Britain squad successful nan 4x100m relay.

Azu ran nan opening limb pinch nan baton handed complete to Louie Hinchliffe, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Zharnel Hughes.

The title was won by Canada pinch South Africa taking nan metallic medal.

The relay came six days aft Azu was disqualified from nan individual 100m arena because of a mendacious start.

It was a first way and section badge for a Welsh jock since Iwan Thomas and Jamie Baulch won 4x400m relay metallic successful Atlanta successful 1996.