British Olympians
Great British Olympians 1948-1960
When he arrived at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Chris Brasher's claim to fame was the part he played in Roger Bannister running the first sub-four-minute...
Great British Olympians Pre-Second World War
The enduring story of Olympic sprinters Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams was told in the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, released 57 years after the 192...
Greatest British Jumpers
It was a vintage year for British long jumpers, 1964. Not only did Mary Rand overcome the disappointment of four years earlier in Rome to become the first Br...
Greatest British Olympic Female Middle Distance Runners
Look up perseverance in the dictionary and there should be a photograph of Kelly Holmes. The former army sergeant was 34 years old when she became the first...
Greatest British Olympic Hurdlers
Few Olympic gold medals have been won in such devastating style as the one David Hemery earned for Great Britain in the 400metre hurdles at the Mexico City G...
Greatest British Olympic Male Middle Distance Runners
The men's middle distance races at the Moscow Games in 1980 were among the most eagerly anticipated in Olympic history. Two British athletes, Sebastian Coe a...
Greatest British Olympic Rowers
Steve Redgrave is Britain's ultimate Olympian. He won a gold medal at each of the five Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000 and achieved the feat in the particula...
Greatest British Olympic Sailors
Sailor Shirley Robertson was the first British woman to win gold medals at consecutive Olympic Games, and the first Scottish woman to win an Olympic gold in...
Greatest British Olympic Shooters
Malcolm Cooper did not tolerate distractions. He was so single-minded and dedicated in his pursuit of shooting excellence that he and wife Sarah, a successfu...
Greatest British Olympic Sprinters
Some question the value of the Olympic gold medal won by Scottish sprinter Allan Wells at the Moscow Games in 1980. After all, the USA had boycotted the Game...
Greatest British Olympic Swimmers
There seems to be something about the breaststroke that brings out the best in British swimmers. David Wilkie, Duncan Goodhew and Adrian Moorhouse have all w...
Greatest British Olympics Decathletes
Daley Thompson is, quite simply, the greatest decathlete in history. He is also the most successful. Between 1978 and 1986, Thompson set four world records a...
Greatest British Olympics Female All-Rounders
The accepted wisdom at the Munich Olympics in 1972 was that it was going to take something very special to deny home favourite Heidi Rosendahl a pentathlon g...
Greatest British Olympics Field Events Stars
Tessa Sanderson took part in six Olympics but is remembered for one - the Los Angeles Games in 1984 when she became the first and, as yet, only British woman...