13 August 2012
The Team GB Did-You-Know guide to Great Britain's firsts, notables and success stories in London 2012 has been compiled by statistician and historian Phil Barker.
- Helen Glover and Heather Stanning First women to win Olympic gold in Rowing for Great Britain.
- Most successful Olympic rowing regatta in for Britain.
- Fourth successive title for men’s coxless four.
- Tim Baillie and Etienne Scott win Britain's first gold medal in White water canoeing.
- Closing Ceremony flag bearer Ben Ainslie became most successful sailor from any nation with four Gold medals (and a Silver!).
- First Gold medal in Triathlon - The Brownlees (Alistair and Bronze-winner Jonathan, pictured above) are the first brothers to win medals in an individual event in over 108 years.
- Team GB won first title in the history of women’s boxing with Nicola Adams in women’s flyweight
- Charlotte Dujardin became our most successful female rider – the first to win two Olympic Gold medals.
- First team showjumping Gold since 1952.
- First time that all three Equestrian disciplines have yielded medals with every rider winning a medal.
- Most Golds (6) won by Britain on a single day - Saturday, August 4 - since 1908.
- Three athletic Golds on that Super Saturday in a track and field session for first time.
- First medal for women’s hockey since 1992 – Great Britain have won a medal in Hockey at every home Games.
- First Long Jump Gold for Britain since 1964 won by Greg Rutherford.
- Taekwondo’s Jade Jones is first team GB member to win Youth Olympic Gold and Olympic Gold.
- Jones is Britain’s first Gold medallist in the sport since its introduction to the Games.
- Laura Trott is first woman cyclist to win two Gold medals at a single Games for Team GB.
- Sir Chris Hoy becomes first British Olympian to win six Gold medals in a career eclipsing Sir Steve Redgrave.
- Andy Murray is first man to win an Olympic tennis singles Gold since 1908 - and first male Gold medallist in the sport since 1920.
- Beth Tweddle is the first woman gymnast to win an individual medal for Britain.
- First football goal of the entire London Games scored by Team GB’s Steph Houghton in the women’s tournament.
