Welsh Olympic Athletes at Paris 2024

Welsh Olympic Facts

Most successful Olympian: Paulo Radmilovic (Water Polo, Swimming)
Most successful Olympic Games: Rio 2016. 4 Gold medallists, 7 Silver medallists with 6 of them women.

How did Welsh athletes perform at Paris 2024?  

33 Welsh athletes, including 19 Olympic debutants, won 13 medals.

Gold

• Matt Richards and Kieran Bird - Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay
• Emma Finucane - Women’s Team Sprint
• Harry Brightmore - Men’s Eight

Silver

• Matt Richards - Men’s 200m Freestyle
• Ollie Wynne-Griffith - Men’s Pair
• Elinor Barker - Women’s madison

Bronze

• Eve Stewart - Women’s Eight
• Matt Aldridge - Men's Four
• Becky Wilde - Women’s Double Sculls
• Elinor Barker, Jess Roberts, Anna Morris - Women's Team Pursuit
• Emma Finucane - Women's Keirin
• Jeremiah Azu - Men’s 4x100m relay
• Emma Finucane - Women's Sprint

Welsh history-makers at Paris 2024

A record 33 Welsh Olympians represented Team GB at Paris 2024 - the largest Welsh contingent at an Olympics.
Welsh Olympians achieved a record 13 medals at Paris 2024 - three golds, three silvers and seven bronze.

• Anna Hursey became Wales’ first ever Olympic table tennis player.
• Ella Maclean-Howell became Wales’ first ever Olympic mountain biker.
• Jasmine Joyce became the first British rugby player to appear at three different Olympic Games.
• Ruby Evans became the first Welsh gymnast to compete at the Olympics since 1996.
• Matt Richards was a part of the first ever swimming team to defend an Olympic relay Gold Medal with the same four team members.
• Elinor Barker became the most decorated Welsh woman at the Olympics when she won her fourth medal.
• Emma Finucane became the first Welsh athlete to win three medals at a single Olympics.

Thanks to the National Lottery

National Lottery funding has been a game changer for Welsh sport for nearly 30 years. Thanks to UK Sport’s National Lottery-funded World Class Programme, our top Welsh athletes are able to train full time, have access to the world’s best coaches and benefit from pioneering medical support.

National Lottery funding also supports the grassroots clubs through which they emerge and has been invested into creating world-class sporting facilities such as the Geraint Thomas Velodrome in Newport and the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. 

Welsh Olympians at Paris 2024