British canoe slalom teammates (from left) Kimberley Woods, Joe Clarke, Adam Burgess and Mallory Franklin celebrate qualifying for the Olympic Games in Paris. : Getty Images/Sam Mellish
The first athletes to represent Great Britain at next year's Paris Olympics have been announced.
Team GB has submitted the majority of its sailors for the 2024 Games, including athletes also selected from rock climbing, canoe slalom and triathlon.
Team GB includes athletes from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (although athletes from the provinces may instead represent the Republic of Ireland).
Team GB have performed superbly at the last four Games, finishing fourth in the medal table at Beijing 2008, third at London 2012, second at Rio 2016, then fourth at Tokyo 2020.
This file will be updated as Great Britain announces new athletes for the XXXIII Summer Olympics in France. capital, which will be held from July 26 to August 11.
Who are the athletes of the British team? Canoe Slalom
Mallory Franklin: Women's Canoe Single (C1) and Kayak Cross
Britain's most successful canoeist, Franklin won silver in the inaugural C1 Olympic women's race at Tokyo 2020. She is the reigning C1 World Champion and will also compete in the canoe competition, which will make its debut at the Paris Games.
Kimberly Woods: women's single kayak (K1) and kayak cross
On her Olympic debut in Tokyo, Woods impressed en route to the final, but lost 56 seconds on a penalty to finish 10th. That same year, she won bronze at the World Championships, just 10 days after being involved in a car accident. Woods, who won C1 gold and silver at the 2023 World Championships, has spoken candidly about her mental health battles in 2020 and has become an inspiration to the team.
Kimberly Woods has won a total of nine individual World Cup medals to date, including three C1 golds and one K1 silver. Photo: PA/Mike Egerton
Adam Burgess: Men's single canoe (C1).
The Black Sabbath and Stoke City fan has four European Championships and five World Championships medals to his name . Also a yoga enthusiast and professional coffee maker, Burgess missed out on bronze by 0.16 seconds on his Olympic debut in Tokyo and says he has «unfinished business» in Paris.
Joe Clark: men's single kayak (K1) and kayak cross
At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Clark became the first British man to win K1 gold and, having missed out on qualifying for Tokyo 2020, will be looking to make amends situation in Paris. He experienced his most successful period from 2021 to 2023, winning a hat-trick of Kayak Cross World Championships and K1 gold in 2023.
Sailing
John Gimson and Anna Burnett: Nacra 17 (mixed multihull)
Former America's Cup sailors Gimson and Burnett were silver medalists at Tokyo 2020 and will be looking to do even better in Paris after securing their place by winning bronze at the Olympic test event in July and then finishing second at the World Championships in August.< John Gimson and Anna Burnett, who won silver together at Tokyo 2020, have their sights set on the next step in their careers. catwalk in Paris Photo: Getty Images/Oliver Morin
James Peters and Finn Sterritt: 49er (men's skiffs)
Peters, who was nominated for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2008, gave up sailing after being paired with Sterritt < stronghave been selected by future gold medalists Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell for the GB selection in Tokyo. but he is back and may have something to prove in Paris. Peters and Sterritt make their Olympic debuts.
Freya Black and Saskia Tidy: 49erFX (women's boat)
Double Olympic champion Tidy will be the most experienced member of the Team GB sailing team, while her teammate Black is the youngest sailor on the team at just 22 years old. Tidy represented Ireland at Rio 2016 and then moved up to Team GB after qualifying through her father. Don is for Tokyo 2020. Black is taking a break from studying philosophy and politics at the University of Exeter to focus on her first Olympics.
Emma Wilson: iQFOiL (women's windsurfing)
Wilson won Britain's first women's windsurfing medal since 2008 with bronze at Tokyo 2020 and has adapted well since switching from RS:X to iQFOiL — windsurfing new for Paris 2024 — two years ago.
Having learned to windsurf with her mother Penny, a two-time Olympic champion, Wilson won her first world title aged just 12 in the U15 category. She won bronze at the 2023 World Championships and silver at the test event in Marseille, which will host the Paris 2024 sailing competition.
Emma Wilson fought off stiff competition to make Team GB for the second time. Photo: Getty Images/Clive Mason
Sam Sills: iQFOiL (men's windsurfing)
Naval architect missed opportunity Selected for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 then stepped away from sailing and focused on reducing carbon emissions, working to build eco-friendly boats in Norway and Sweden. The former junior world champion returned to sailing after Olympic windsurfing equipment was changed from RS:X to iQFOiL.
Ellie Aldridge: Formula kite (women's kite)
Aldridge recovered from the capsizing of her seven-year-old that knocked her out of the water and took up kitesurfing for fun over the weekend. Since the class was added to the Paris Olympics in 2024, she has become a consistent medal contender at major events, winning silver at the Olympic Test Events and the World Championships in August, followed by gold at the European Championships.
Michael Beckett: ILCA 7 (men's boat)
After missing out on selection in Tokyo, the Welsh sailor advised television directors on racing stories at the Olympic Games in Japan. This time, Beckett, the 2021 European champion who studied marine engineering at the University of Southampton, will be looking to break Australia's three-Games winning streak in her class.
Triathlon
Beth Potter < The Glaswegian finished 34th in the 10,000m at the 206 Rio Olympics before switching to triathlon. In 2023, the former physics teacher won the Olympic test event in Paris and became world champion in Pontevedra, Spain.
Alex Lee
Former Brownlee Brothers training colleague, Yee won silver in the individual competition and gold in the mixed relay at Tokyo 2020. After receiving an MBE in 2022, Lee booked his place at the 2024 Games by winning the test event in 2023.
Alex Lee and Beth Potter have been confirmed as the first two Team GB triathletes selected to compete in Paris. Photo: Getty Images/Sam Mellish
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