Crew GB tipped to convey dwelling 62 medals from Paris 2024 Olympic Video games

Nice Britain are forecast to win 62 medals on the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Britain received 65 medals at London 2012, 67 in Rio 2016 and 64 in Tokyo 2020, having failed to achieve 60 in any single Video games in 100 years earlier than that.

The Gracenote forecast predicts 10 particular person gold medals together with skateboarder Sky Brown, 15.

Keely Hodgkinson within the 800m, Bethany Shriever within the BMX, Jessica Gadirova and Bryony Web page in gymnastics and Bradly Sinden within the taekwondo are a number of the different athletes projected to take gold.

World 1500m champion Jake Wightman and girls’s bronze medallist Laura Muir are forecast to win bronze and silver respectively in Paris, whereas Dina Asher-Smith is predicted to take 200m bronze.

Nonetheless, European 200m champion Zharnel Hughes is amongst these not included within the medal rely, regardless of being thought of among the many favourites at this yr’s World Athletics Championships having run the quickest 100m time this yr.

Amongst 9 swimming medals, two-time Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty is predicted to take silver – as is Tom Dean within the 200m freestyle.

Dean lately took silver on the World Aquatics Championships behind fellow Briton Matt Richards, who just isn’t included among the many predicted medals.

Elsewhere, reigning Olympic males’s mountain bike champion Thomas Pidcock has not been included amongst seven biking medals, nor has males’s pommel horse gold medallist Max Whitlock in gymnastics.

The forecast does have GB workforce golds in sports activities together with males’s and girls’s rowing and equestrian eventing, with a number of silver and bronze workforce medals throughout the athletics relays, swimming and biking disciplines.

“Britain is predicted to come back near sustaining its efficiency in Tokyo,” stated information analysts Gracenote Nielsen.

“Gracenote’s digital media desk forecasts a drop of simply two medals to 62. Gold medals could possibly be considerably down, although, because the British workforce are on simply 15 golds on this preliminary prognosis.

“British success over the previous three Olympic Video games has been constructed on having medal winners in at the very least 20 sports activities and the preliminary digital media desk forecast means that that is set to proceed.”

Russian and Belarusian rivals weren’t included within the calculations due to uncertainty over their participation.

The Worldwide Olympic Committee remains to be fine-tuning its stance on athletes from these international locations.

Crew GB chef de mission Mark England stated: “I feel we have an amazing alternative to be the highest European nation once more, even supposing the house nation may be very, very sturdy and getting stronger for an entire number of causes.

“So prime European nation, prime 5 are our aspirations. I do know that we’re medal-competitive in a major variety of sports activities. I feel we have all of these constructing blocks, however we have one other 12 months to construct on that.”