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002 003 004 006 FOREWORD TEAM GB MEDIA WELCOME TO COMPETITION CONTACTS TOKYO SCHEDULE 008 010 012 TEAM GB AT HISTORICAL TEAM GB TOKYO 2020 MEDAL TALLY SPORT-BY-SPORT

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at an ‘away’ Games – and the media operations Director of Communications: Scott Field, Aquatics: Artistic , Judo: Katriona Bush, Katriona.Bush@ overlay in Tokyo. Please use all the links available in [email protected], & Individual: David Gerty, TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104115 this guide to click through to our athlete profiles or to +81 (0) 7014103668 [email protected], : Craig Davies, follow their progress on social media +81 (0) 7014103709 Chief Press Attaché: Thomas Rowland, [email protected], +81 (0) [email protected], Athletics: Liz Birchall, 7014104053 You will find a variety of information to help you +81 (0) 7014104392 [email protected], navigate the 17 days of competition at Tokyo 2020 +81 (0) 7014104172 : Shelley Wyatt, Shelley.Wyatt@ as well as useful contacts for your time in . The Deputy Chief Press Attaché and Head TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104360 entire Team GB-appointed media team are here of Managing Victory: Laura Craig, Laura. : Gemma Field, [email protected], +81 (0) 7014104145 [email protected], : Charlotte Harwood, to help you, so please do be in contact during the +81 (0) 7014104053 [email protected], +81 Games if there is anything we can be of assistance Preparation Camp Media Manager: (0) 7014103957 with. Charlotte Harwood, Charlotte.Harwood@ Boxing: Lee Murgatroyd, TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014103957 [email protected], : Will Carson, Will.Carson@ +81 (0) 7014104162 TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104451 My very best wishes, and I hope you enjoy the Senior Managing Victory Officer: Ruth Games Norfolk, [email protected], Canoeing: Shelley Wyatt, Shooting: Craig Davies, Craig.Davies@ +81 (0) 7014104311 [email protected], TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014103979 +81 (0) 7014104360 Dear media colleague, SCOTT FIELD, DIRECTOR OF Managing Victory: David Gerty, David. Skateboarding: Tim Peake, Tim.Peake@ COMMUNICATIONS, TEAM GB [email protected], +81 (0) 7014103709 Cycling: Abby Burton, Abby.Burton@ TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104371 Firstly, can I thank you all for your support and, in TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014103877 particular, for the incredible effort of those who Managing Victory: Zoe Gilvear, Zoe. Sport Climbing: Gemma Field, [email protected], +81 (0) have made to make it out to Tokyo. I appreciate [email protected], Equestrian: Winnie Murphy, Winnie. +81 (0) 7014103730 [email protected], +81 (0) 7014104053 the journey has been complex and not without 7014104481 its difficulties, but everyone at the British Olympic Managing Victory: Claire Jackson, Table : Carys Edwards, Carys. Association values your ongoing support and [email protected], : Tom Turner, Tom.Turner@ [email protected], +81 (0) 7014103928 commitment. +81 (0) 7014103713 TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104428 Communications Manager: Football: Wendy Taylor, Wendy.Taylor@ : Tom Turner, Tom.Turner@ I am sure the athletes will repay that faith with some Rachel Frazer, [email protected] TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104440 TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104428 outstanding performances and compelling stories. I have often said that I believe the quality of sports Golf: Clare Bodel, Clare.Bodel@ Tennis: Lee Murgatroyd, Lee. SPORTS TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014103970 [email protected], +81 (0) coverage in Rio 2016 was as good as it has ever 7014104162 been, and I have no doubt that your output in Tokyo Aquatics: Swimming & Diving Gymnastics: Tim Peake, will match if not exceed that. : Gemma Field, Gemma.Field@ Synchronised: Ruth Norfolk, [email protected], TeamGB.com, +81 (0) 7014104053 [email protected], +81 (0) 7014104371 We have produced this handbook to help aid your +81 (0) 7014104311 Weightlifting: Craig Davies, Craig. background knowledge and understanding of both Hockey: Carys Edwards, [email protected], [email protected], +81 (0) Team GB – and our largest ever athlete delegation +81 (0) 7014103928 7014103979

4 FOREWORD 5 WELCOME TO TOKYO

Welcome to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games for Tokyo 2020 also comes in the middle of a run of In addition to the reassuringly familiar events, four A 17-day festival of sport will showcase Tokyo to what, after a 12-month delay, may well be the most three consecutive Olympics being held in East new sports will be making their Olympic debut – as billions of viewers around the world, with the venues unique Games in history. Asia, sandwiched between the winter pursuits of one of Tokyo 2020’s stated goals to give the Games comprising both existing arenas – such as the PyeongChang 2018 and 2022. a more youthful appeal. National Stadium for athletics, for The first ever postponed Olympics and the longest tennis and for judo and karate – wait for a summer Games since the Second World With that in mind, karate, skateboarding, and new, custom-built sites like the Tokyo War, after 364 days of waiting Tokyo is finally set to sport climbing and surfing have all Aquatics Centre. host a celebration of sporting excellence. been added to the programme, DID YOU KNOW? guaranteeing further excitement and From the Opening Ceremony Although the Games of the XXXII Olympiad will drama this summer. There are 339 sets of medals on July 23 until the Closing look different to any previous edition, Japan will still to be won across 33 sports at Ceremony on August 8, deliver an event that captures the attention of Baseball/softball returns for the Tokyo 2020, with athletics leading the Olympic Games will the way for number of events. the world. first time since Beijing 2008, while There are 48 athletics events on become the centre of the a number of new events within the schedule, while swimming sporting world and, with an With an official Games Motto of “United by existing sports – such as 3x3 has 37 (although aquatics as unforgettable 17 days in the Emotion” – emphasising the power of sport basketball, BMX Freestyle Park and a whole has 49 events) and offing, Tokyo 2020 will be cycling offers 22 chances to bring together people from diverse mixed relay events – will also freshen at gold. worth the wait. backgrounds – Tokyo 2020 promises things up. to be the perfect antidote to DID YOU the uncertainty of the past 16 KNOW? months. This isn’t the first time Tokyo has had to change its plans More than 11,000 athletes around an Olympic Games. from 205 nations, including a The city was set to host the 1940 Refugee Olympic Team for a Summer Olympics but pulled out second consecutive summer in 1938 and, with the outbreak of World War II the following year, Games, will compete for 339 the Games were ultimately sets of medals across 33 sports, cancelled. in what is the biggest Olympic Games to date.

Tokyo becomes the first Asian city to host for a second time, 57 years on from its debut in 1964, while Japan has now been the site of four Olympics in total – after the Sapporo 1972 and Nagano 1998 Winter Games.

6 WELCOME TO WELCOME TO 7 TOKYO 2020 EVENTS SCHEDULE G = Medal Event Event

OPENING/CLOSING CEREMONY AQUATICS - ARTISTIC SWIMMING AQUATICS - DIVING G G AQUATICS - MARATHON AQUATICS - SWIMMING G G AQUATICS - WATER POLO ARCHERY G G G ATHLETICS BADMINTON BASKETBALL 3X3 BASKETBALL G BEACH VOLLEYBALL BOXING CANOE - SLALOM CANOE - CYCLING - ROAD CYCLING - - MOUNTAIN BIKE CYCLING - BMX EQUESTRIAN FENCING FOOTBALL GOLF GYMNASTICS - - RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS - TRAMPOLINE HANDBALL HOCKEY JUDO KARATE MODERN PENTATHLON ROWING RUGBY SAILING SHOOTING TABLE TENNIS TAEKWONDO TENNIS TRIATHLON VOLLEYBALL WEIGHTLIFTING WRESTLING

8 COMPETITION | SCHEDULE SCHEDULE | COMPETITION 9 TEAM GB AT TOKYO 2020

As one of just five countries to appear in every increased number of female events at the Games. While some Olympic legends will be donning Team Tokyo 2020 will also be a family affair as the Team Olympic Games of the modern era, and the only GB colours once again – in fact there are 122 returning GB contingent includes sets of siblings: Jennifer country to win at least one gold medal in all summer No British woman has ever won gold medals Olympians in the squad, with 51 of them having and Jessica Gadirova (gymnastics), Charlotte editions, it wouldn’t be an Olympic summer at three separate Olympics yet cyclist Laura previously won medals – a further 254 athletes will and Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Emily and without Team GB. Kenny, taekwondo player , potentially be pulling on a vest for their first (both rowing), Joe and Max DID rower and equestrian Games. DID Litchfield (swimming), Luke and Pat After an historically successful Rio YOU KNOW? star Charlotte Dujardin all have the YOU KNOW? McCormack (boxing), 2016 – with 67 medals being Carl Hester is the member chance to achieve that feat after Equestrian star Carl Hester is the and Cindy Sember (athletics), most experienced Team GB Tokyo 2020 will see Team Team GB’s highest tally since of Team GB’s Tokyo 2020 successes in London and Rio. GB will have more female Hannah and 1908 and making Great squad with the most Olympic athlete in Tokyo, selected for his than male athletes at a (athletics), and Adam and Britain and Northern Ireland experience, as he prepares to Glover will become the first sixth Olympic Games and also summer Games for the first time (cycling). compete at his sixth Games. The in history. However, at the 1932 the first nation to surpass its dressage star made his Olympic British rower to compete at the oldest member of the squad, medal total at the Olympics an Olympic Games after having turned 54 in June. Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, The Gadirovas, McCormacks debut way back at Team GB sent a squad of four immediately following one 1992 and is a two-time medallist, becoming a mum, while female athletes – all figure and Yates’ are all twins, while that it hosted – the class of 2021 having won team gold at Kenny – a mother herself since Sky Brown was just one month skaters, including 11-year-old there will be a ninth set of siblings London 2012 and team Cecilia Colledge – and are ready to make their mark. silver at Rio 2016. Rio - is already Team GB’s most old when won his first on the plane to Japan, as two-time successful female Olympic athlete Olympic title at Beijing 2008 but the no men. Olympian Harry Martin – brother There are 376 selected athletes, of all-time with four gold medals. skateboarding sensation will become of women’s hockey player Hannah with 201 female and 175 male, which Team GB’s youngest-ever summer Martin – is a reserve for the men’s means for the first time in its summer Her husband, Jason Kenny, will also head Olympian when she competes in the women’s hockey team. Olympic history, Team GB will have more female to Tokyo looking to break a tie with Sir park event, having only turned 13 years old on July 7th. than male athletes in Tokyo thanks to impressive for most Olympic gold medals won by a Brit, after qualification performances across sports and an accruing six over the previous three Games. Brown is part of a two-strong Team GB skateboarding squad, along with 15-year-old Bombette Martin, while Marcus Mepstead (fencing) and Shauna Coxsey (sport climbing) are the only British athletes competing at Tokyo 2020 in their chosen sports.

On the flip side, a squad of 77 will compete for Team GB in athletics, while hockey (32) and rowing (41 and four spares) are among the other sports providing large numbers of competitors.

Coxsey, Brown and Martin are the only Team GB athletes in the four new sports added to the Tokyo 2020 programme, with no British athletes selected in either karate or surfing.

10 WELCOME TO | TOKYO TOKYO | WELCOME TO 11 HISTORIC TEAM GB MEDAL TABLE

Chef Medal Tally Year City De Mission Position Flagbearers Sport T M W G S B T

1896 10 10 0 N/A 3 3 1 7 5TH N/A N/A T = TOTAL GB COMPETITORS 1900 103 100 1 N/A 17 8 12 37 3RD N/A N/A M = GB COMPETITORS (MEN) 1904 ST. LOUIS 6 1 0 N/A 8 11 0 19 4TH N/A N/A W = GB COMPETITORS (WOMEN) 1908 LONDON 736 697 39 N/A 56 51 39 146 1ST KYNASTON STUDD N/A 1912 293 283 10 N/A 10 15 16 41 3RD CHARLES SMITH WATER POLO G = GOLD MEDALS 1920 ANTWERP 204 189 18 N/A 15 12 12 39 4TH ERNEST THORNE TUG OF WAR S = SILVER MEDALS 1924 PARIS 307 279 28 N/A 9 13 12 34 4TH ARTHUR HUNT WATER POLO B = BRONZE MEDALS 1928 234 207 27 E.A. HUNTER 3 10 7 20 11TH MALCOLM NOKES ATHLETICS T = TOTAL MEDALS WON 1932 74 59 15 E.A. HUNTER 4 7 5 16 8TH LORD BURGHLEY ATHLETICS 1936 225 188 37 E.A. HUNTER 4 7 3 14 10TH ROWING 1948 LONDON 375 324 51 E.A. HUNTER 3 14 6 23 12TH EMRYS LLOYD FENCING 1952 HELSKINKI 293 238 45 E.A. HUNTER 1 2 8 11 18TH HAROLD WHITLOCK ATHLETICS 1956 * 200 174 26 K.S. DUNCAN 6 7 11 24 8TH GEORGE MACKENZIE ** WRESTLING 1960 252 209 43 K.S. DUNCAN 2 6 12 20 12TH RICHARD MCTAGGART BOXING 1964 TOKYO 199 166 45 K.S. DUNCAN 4 12 2 18 10TH & SWIMMING & FENCING 1968 MEXICO CITY 237 185 52 K.S. DUNCAN 5 5 3 13 10TH & ATHLETICS 1972 310 232 78 K.S. DUNCAN 4 5 9 18 12TH & EQUESTRIAN 1976 MONTREAL 234 184 50 C.G.V. DAVIDGE 3 5 5 13 13TH RODNEY PATTISON YACHTING 1980 222 147 75 R.W. PALMER 5 7 9 21 9TH RICHARD PALMER *** CHEF DE MISSION * Includes the equestrian events 1984 LOS ANGELES 355 240 115 R.W. PALMER 5 11 21 37 11TH LUCINDA GREEN & EQUESTRIAN & ATHLETICS which were held in Stockholm. 1988 345 219 126 R.W. PALMER 5 10 9 24 12TH IAN TAYLOR & MALCOLM COOPER HOCKEY & SHOOTING 1992 BARCELONA 371 229 142 R.W. PALMER 5 3 12 20 13TH STEVEN REDGRAVE & ROWING & ATHLETICS ** George MacKenzie competed at five Olympics up to 1928 and carried the flag 1996 304 184 120 R.W. PALMER 1 8 6 15 36TH STEVEN REDGRAVE & ROWING & ATHLETICS in 1956. 2000 320 188 132 S.P. CLEGG 11 10 7 28 10TH & STEVEN REDGRAVE ROWING 2004 ATHENS 270 164 106 S.P. CLEGG 9 9 12 30 10TH KATE HOWEY & JUDO & ATHLETICS *** As Chef de Mission Richard Palmer was 2008 BEIJING 311 168 143 S.P. CLEGG 19 13 19 51 4TH MARK FOSTER & CHRIS HOY SWIMMING & CYCLING GB’s flagbearer at Moscow 1980 but he 2012 LONDON 541 279 262 A. HUNT 29 17 19 65 3RD CHRIS HOY & CYCLING & SAILING carried the Olympic flag. 2016 RIO 366 202 164 J.M. 27 23 17 67 2ND & -WALSH TENNIS & HOCKEY

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013 017 023 033 ARTISTIC ARCHERY ATHLETICS BADMINTON SWIMMING 039 045 051 059 BOXING CANOEING CYCLING DIVING

065 073 079 087 EQUESTRIAN FENCING FOOTBALL GOLF

093 099 107 113 GYMNASTICS HOCKEY JUDO MODERN PENTATHLON 119 127 133 141 ROWING RUGBY SEVENS SAILING SHOOTING

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169 175 181 187 TAEKWONDO TENNIS TRIATHLON WEIGHTLIFTING

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18 TEAM PROFILES | ARCHERY 19 World and European medallist Patrick Huston will also be gunning for glory at his second Games, Archery after the man from Belfast had his first Olympic Introduction taste at Rio 2016. Meanwhile, Sarah Bettles, Bryony Pitman, Tom Hall and James Woodgate will each make their Olympic debuts in Tokyo at the A contest of mind, body control and precision, Archery Field from 23-31 July. archery has kept sports fans on the edge of their seats since making its maiden Olympic Head coach Richard Preistman also has plenty of appearance in Paris in 1900. Early editions were Olympic pedigree after winning bronze medals for dominated by the host nation, indeed, William Team GB in the archery team event at both Seoul Dod and Queenie Newall claimed archery gold 1988 and Barcelona 1992. for Team GB at London 1908 with Newall’s triumph at the age of 53 seeing her still rank as the oldest The ranking round will be held on the day of the woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal. Opening Ceremony, where each archer shoots 72 arrows with their total score determining their At the same Games, fellow Brits Reginald Brooks- seeding (1-64) for the individual events, as well as King and Lottie Dod picked up a silver apiece, as seeding the men’s and women’s teams from 1 to 12 Beatrice Hill-Lowe took home a bronze to secure and deciding the 16 pairs that qualify for the mixed five of GB’s all-time total of nine Olympic medals. team event. Following a break of 52 years after 1920, archery returned to the Olympic programme at Munich The individual events are then decided by head- 1972 and has been present at the Games to-head elimination knockout matches, as the ever since. first-ranked archer faces off against the 64th-ranked archer, the second-ranked against the 63rd-ranked, Recurve is the only discipline featured, as Olympic and so on – with the loser leaving the competition archers shoot at a 122cm-diameter target from a and the winner advancing to the next phase. distance of 70 metres. To achieve maximum marks Eventually two athletes will remain to contest the they must hit the gold centre ring - the bulls-eye - gold-medal match, while the two semi-final losers measuring just 12cm. compete for bronze. Originally featuring just men’s and women’s The men’s and women’s team events work in a individual events, respective team competitions similar head-to-head, knockout format with the top- were introduced at Seoul 1988, while Tokyo 2020 will four seeded teams receiving a bye straight to the see a mixed team event – featuring one man and quarter-finals, while the fifth to 12th-ranked teams one woman per team – for the first time. compete for the remaining quarter-final spots. Naomi Folkard will be bidding for medal success on her fifth Olympic appearance in Tokyo, 17 years on from her debut in Athens, and has claimed team bronze at each of the two World Championships since Rio 2016.

20 ARCHERY | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | ARCHERY 21 Events Schedule

= Women = Men = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

Team GB at the Olympic Games

Seoul 1988 1

Barcelona 1992 2 Gold

Athens 2004 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 2 2 5 Bronze

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24 ARCHERY | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | ATHLETICS 25 If Britain’s middle-distance fortunes are being revived, then its stunning heritage never Athletics went away. Introduction Katarina Johnson-Thompson inherits the legacy of , and Jessica Ennis-Hill Athletics is the epitome of the Olympic motto: and delivered one of the defining performances faster, higher, stronger. From Greek hero Spyridon of the Olympic cycle in any sport to win 2019 World Louis’s victory in the first-ever marathon back in Championship gold in . Now-three-time 1896 to ’s era-defining achievements, Olympian will hope to stay on top in Tokyo. Olympic is the purest form of athletic competition between individuals and nations. Team GB last won a medal in women’s sprints at Rome 1960, when claimed 100m Being contested over the final ten days of Tokyo silver and 200m bronze. No British woman has ever 2020, athletics is always among the most highly- won a sprint gold at the Games. anticipated of Olympic sports and Team GB are never far from the action. Dina Asher-Smith is shaping up to be the face of Team GB in Tokyo and the nation will put down Mile running is the foundation of athletics in Britain its coffees and watch her finals on 31 July and 3 - it emerged in England in the 18th century - and its August with great expectations. natural theatre has produced legends like Sydney Wooderson, Sir Roger Bannister, , Steve Bred as a bend runner at Blackheath and Bromley Cram and Sebastian Coe. Athletics Club, where she still trains with coach John Blackie, Asher-Smith will face fierce competition in At Olympic and world level it is run as 1500m, known the 100m from ’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, as the ‘metric mile’, and British hopes in the middle who she beat for the first time at a Diamond distances are soaring to a height they haven’t since League event in Gateshead in May. Ovett and Coe captivated the world at Moscow 1980. British record holder is chasing an It will be in the 200m, an event in which she is world elusive first global outdoor medal with a kick to rival champion, that hopes of gold burn brightest, while anyone over 1500m while training partner Jemma she will also anchor the 4x100m relay, who won Reekie, who lived with Muir during lockdown, has Olympic bronze in Rio. also broken out as a medal contender over 800m.

On the men’s side, Josh Kerr ran the fastest 1500m time ever on American soil in June and Rio Olympian Elliot Giles, who nearly broke Coe’s British record in an incredible indoor season, breaks the mould by travelling around Europe and training out of a campervan.

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= Women = Men = Women & Men (Mixed Event) = Medal Event

09.00 -12.30

19.00- 21.00

Team GB at the Olympic Games

Beijing 2008 1 2 5

London 2012 4 1 1 Gold

Rio 2016 2 1 4 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 55 80 70 Bronze

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Dina Asher-Smith Keely Hodgkinson Amy-Eloise Markovc Tiffany Porter Holly Bradshaw Ashleigh Nelson Event: 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay Event: 800m Event: 5000m Event: 100m hurdles Event: Pole Event: 4x100m relay

DOB: 04/12/1995 DOB: 03/03/2002 DOB: 05/08/1995 DOB: 13/11/1987 DOB: 02/11/1991 DOB: 20/02/1991 Hometown: London: Orpington Hometown: Greater Hometown: Greater Hometown: USA: Ypsilanti Hometown: Lancashire: Hometown: Staffordshire: Previous Games attended: : Wigan Manchester: Previous Games attended: Preston Stoke Rio 2016 : @keelyhodgkinson Stockport Rio 2016, London 2012 Previous Games attended: Previous Games attended: Twitter: @dinaashersmith Instagram: @keely.hodgkinson Instagram: @amyeloisem Twitter: @tiffofili Rio 2016, London 2012 Rio 2016, Beijing 2008

Instagram: @dinaashersmith Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @tiffofili Twitter: @HollyBradshawPV Twitter: @ashleighlnelson Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @hollybradshawpv Instagram: @ashleighlnelson Link for bio 1 Link for bio

Daryll Neita Alexandra Bell Eilish McColgan Cindy Sember Event: 100m, 4x100m relay Event: 800m Event: 5000m, 10,000m Event: 100m hurdles Event: Event: 4x400m relay DOB: 29/08/1996 DOB: 04/11/1992 DOB: 25/11/1990 DOB: 05/08/1994 DOB: 03/01/1990 Hometown: London: Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: : Hometown: USA: Ypsilanti Hometown: Greater DOB: 25/10/1994 Camberwell Dundee Previous Games attended: Manchester: Manchester Hometown: Scotland: Previous Games attended: Twitter: @alexbell92 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @Airozuru Aberdeen Rio 2016 Instagram: @alexbell1992 Rio 2016, London 2012 Twitter: @cindyofili Instagram: @absisdabest Twitter: @_ZoeyClark Twitter: @daryllneita Link for bio Twitter: @EilishMccolgan Instagram: @cindyofili Link for bio Instagram: @zoey.f.clark Instagram: @daryllneita Instagram: @eilishmccolgan Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio 1

Laura Muir Stephanie Davis Event: 1500m Event: Marathon Event: 100m, 4x100m relay Event: 400m hurdles Event: Long jump Emily Diamond Event: 4x400m relay DOB: 09/05/1993 DOB: 27/08/1990 DOB: 25/10/1990 Hometown: Scotland: Hometown: Scotland: DOB: 15/11/1989 DOB: 21/05/1994 Hometown: London: Leyton DOB: 11/06/1991 Milnathort Hometown: Warwickshire: Hometown: Staffordshire: Previous Games attended: Hometown: Bristol: Bristol Previous Games attended: Twitter: @davissteph26 Polesworth Stoke Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @steph_davis26 Twitter: @meghanbeesley Previous Games attended: Twitter: @MissAshaPhilip Rio 2016, London 2012 Twitter: @lauramuiruns Link for bio Instagram: Rio 2016 Instagram: @missashaphilip Twitter: @EmilyDiamond11 Instagram: @lmuiruns @meghanbeesley Twitter: @JazminSawyers Link for bio Instagram: @emilydiamond11 Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @jazminsawyers Link for bio Link for bio 1 1 Jemma Reekie Jess Piasecki Jessie Knight Event: 200m, 4x100m relay Event: 800m Event: Marathon Event: 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay Event: Long jump Event: 4x400m relay DOB: 07/06/1994 DOB: 06/03/1998 DOB: 18/04/1990 DOB: 15/06/1994 DOB: 22/08/1991 DOB: 13/03/1996 Hometown: South Yorkshire: Hometown: Scotland: North Hometown: Greater Hometown: : Hometown: London: Hometown: London: Doncaster Ayrshire Manchester: Stockport Twitter: @Jessie_Knight Thamesmead Leytonstone Twitter: @BethDobbin Twitter: @JemmaReekie Twitter: @JessCoulson90 Instagram: @jessieknight400 Previous Games attended: Twitter: @Laviai Instagram: @bethdobbin Instagram: @jemmareekie Instagram: Link for bio Rio 2016 Instagram: @laviai Link for bio Link for bio @jess_piasecki_runscience Twitter: @loralski Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @lorraineugen Link for bio

Revee Walcott-Nolan Ama Pipi Event: 1500m Event: Marathon Jessica Turner Sophie McKinna Event: 400m, 4x400m relay Event: 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay Event: Shot put Hannah Williams Event: 4x400m relay DOB: 06/03/1995 DOB: 17/08/1989 DOB: 26/11/1995 DOB: 08/08/1995 DOB: 31/08/1994 Hometown: Bedfordshire: Luton Hometown: Hampshire: DOB: 23/04/1998 Hometown:London: Hometown: Derbyshire: Derby Hometown: Norfolk: Twitter: @ReveeNolan Hometown: : Instagram: @a.mapipi Twitter: @jessturner400h Gorleston Instagram: @reveewn Previous Games attended: Welwyn Garden City Link for bio Instagram: @jessicaturner95 Twitter: @sophiemac10 Link for bio Rio 2016, Beijing 2008 Twitter: @han_williams_ Link for bio Instagram: @sophiemac10 Twitter: @StefApril Instagram: Link for bio Instagram: @stephtwell @hannahlucywilliams Link for bio Link for bio

Katie Snowden Elizabeth Bird Jodie Williams Event: 1500m Event: 3000m steeplechase Emily Borthwick Katarina Johnson-Thompson Event: 400m, 4x400m relay Event: Event: Heptathlon DOB: 09/03/1994 DOB: 04/10/1994 DOB: 28/09/1993 DOB: 02/09/1997 DOB: 09/01/1993 Hometown: London: Hometown: Herfordshire: Hometown: Hertfordshire: Hometown: Greater Hometown: Merseyside: Herne Hill St Albans Welwyn Garden City Manchester: Wigan Twitter: @katiesnowden13 Twitter: @lizziebird94 Previous Games attended: Twitter: @emilyborthwick2 Previous Games attended: Instagram: @katie_snowden Instagram: @lizziebird410 Rio 2016 Instagram: @em.borth Rio 2016, London 2012 Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @Jodiealicia27 Link for bio Twitter: @johnsonthompson Instagram: @jodiealicia Instagram: @johnsonthompson Link for bio Link for bio

Nicole Yeargin Jess Judd Aimee Pratt Morgan Lake Imani-Lara Lansiquot Event: 400m, 4x400m relay Event: 5000m, 10,000m Event: 3000m steeplechase Event: High jump Event: 4x100m relay

DOB: 11/08/1997 DOB: 07/01/1995 DOB: 03/10/1997 DOB: 12/05/1997 DOB: 17/12/1997 Hometown: USA: Los Angeles Hometown: : Rochford Hometown: Greater Hometown: Buckingham Hometown: London: Twitter: @yourfitnic Twitter: @jessjuddxx Manchester: Stockport shire: Peckham Instagram: @yourfitnic Instagram: @jessjuddxx Twitter: @aimeepratt Previous Games attended: Twitter: @ImaniLara Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @aimeepratt_ Rio 2016 Instagram: @imanilara Link for bio Twitter: @Morgan_a_Lake Link for bio Instagram: @morganalexandralake Link for bio 30 ATHLETICS | ATHLETE BIOS ATHLETE BIOS | ATHLETICS 31 Athlete Bios: Men

CJ Ujah Daniel Rowden Ben Connor David King Taylor Campbell Michael Ohioze Event: 100m, 4x100m relay Event: 800m Event: Marathon Event: 110m hurdles Event: Hammer Event: 4x400m relay

DOB: 05/03/1994 DOB: 9/09/1997 DOB: 17/10/1992 DOB: 13/06/1994 DOB: 30/06/1996 DOB: 06/02/1995 Hometown: London: Enfield Hometown: Essex: Buckhurst Hill Hometown: Derbyshire: Derby Hometown: : Plymouth Hometown: Berkshire: Slough Hometown: London: Barnet Previous Games attended: Instagram: @danielrowden Twitter: @bdconnor Twitter: @DaveKing_ Twitter: @TaylorLC1996 Twitter: @michaelohioze Rio 2016 Link for bio Instagram: @bdconnor Instagram: @dking110h Instagram: @taylorc96 Instagram: @michaelohioze Twitter: @Chijindu_Ujah Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @cj_ujah Link for bio

Zharnel Hughes Jake Heyward Callum Hawkins Andrew Pozzi Nick Miller Lee Thompson Event: 100m, 4x100m relay Event: 1500m Event: Marathon Event: 110m hurdles Event: Hammer Event: 4x400m relay

DOB: 13/07/1995 DOB: 26/04/1999 DOB: 22/06/1992 DOB: 15/05/1992 DOB: 01/05/1993 DOB: 05/03/1997 Hometown: Anguilla: Hometown: : Hometown: Scotland: Elderslie Hometown: Warwickshire: Hometown: Cumbria: Carlisle Hometown: South Yorkshire: The Valley Twitter: @jakeheyward7 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Stratford-upon-Avon Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Sheffield Twitter: @zharnel_hughes Instagram: @jakeheyward7 Twitter: @callhawk Previous Games attended: Twitter: @NickMillerhamer Twitter: @leethompss_ Instagram: @zharnel_hughes Link for bio Instagram: @callumrhawkins Rio 2016, London 2012 Instagram: @nick_miller_hammer Instagram: @leethompss Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @andrew_pozzi Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @apozzi93 Link for bio

Reece Prescod Joshua Kerr Jona Efoloko Chris Thompson Tom Gale Event: 4x100m relay Event: 100m, 4x100m relay Event: 1500m Event: Marathon Event: High jump

DOB: 29/02/1996 DOB: 08/10/1997 DOB: 17/04/1981 DOB: 18/12/1998 DOB: 23/09/1999 Hometown: London: Hometown: Scotland: Hometown: Cumbria: Barrow-in-Furness Hometown: : Bath Hometown: Greater Reserve Walthamstow Previous Games attended: Twitter: @TomGale_HJ Manchester: Manchester Twitter: @rprescod1 London 2012 Twitter: @j_efoloko23 Joseph Brier Twitter: @joshk97 Instagram: @tomjamesgale Event: 4x400m relay Instagram: @reeceprescod Instagram: @joshhkerr Twitter: @Thommo10k Link for bio Instagram: @jonaefoloko Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @thommo26.2 Link for bio DOB: 05/03/1997 Link for bio Hometown: South Yorkshire: Sheffield Twitter: @leethompss_ Jake Wightman Tom Bosworth Harry Coppell Instagram: @leethompss Event: 200m, 4x100m relay Event: 4x100m relay Event: 1500m Event: 20km race walk Event: Pole Vault Link for bio DOB: 06/10/1993 DOB: 11/07/1994 DOB: 17/01/1990 DOB: 11/07/1996 DOB: 02/09/1989 Hometown: London: Hometown: Scotland: Hometown: Kent: Sevenoaks Hometown: Merseyside: Billinge Hometown: Durham: Southwark Linlithgow Previous Games attended: Twitter: @Harry_Coppell Stockton-on-Tees Previous Games attended: Twitter: @JakeSWightman Rio 2016 Instagram: @harry_coppell_pv Twitter: @RKilty1 Rio 2016, London 2012 Instagram: @jakeswightman Twitter: @TomBosworth Link for bio Instagram: @richardkilty1 Twitter: @Adam_Gemili Link for bio Instagram: @tombosworth Link for bio Instagram: @adamgemili Link for bio Link for bio

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Andrew Butchart Callum Wilkinson Ben Williams Niclas Baker Event: 200m, 4x100m relay Event: 5000m Event: 20km race walk Event: Event: 4x400m relay

DOB: 02/04/1994 DOB: 14/10/1991 DOB: 14/03/1997 DOB: 25/01/1992 DOB: 09/09/1994 Hometown: London: Newham Hometown: Scotland: Hometown: Suffolk: Moulton Hometown: Staffordshire: Stoke Hometown: London: Previous Games attended: Dunblane Twitter: @cwilko97 Twitter: @Benjump23 Wandsworth Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @cwilko97 Instagram: @benjump18 Instagram: @nbker__ Twitter: @Nethaneel Twitter: @andybutchart91 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @nethaneel Instagram: @Andybutchart Link for bio Link for bio

Oliver Dustin Marc Scott Phil Norman Scott Lincoln Cameron Chalmers Event: 800m Event: 5000m, 10,000m Event: 3000m steeplechase Event: Shot put Event: 4x400m relay

DOB: 29/11/2000 DOB: 21/12/1993 DOB: 20/10/1989 DOB: 07/05/1993 DOB: 06/02/1997 Hometown: Channel Islands: Hometown: Cumbria: Hometown: North Yorkshire: Hometown: Devon: Barnstaple Hometown: North Yorkshire: Northallerton Twitter: @_PhilNorman Northallerton Guernsey Workington Twitter: @_MarcScott Instagram: @phil_norman Twitter: @shotputtlinco Twitter: @CamChalmers400 Twitter: @Oliver_Dustin_ Instagram: @marcscott21 Link for bio Instagram: @shotputtlinco Instagram: @camchalmers Instagram: @oliver_dustin_ Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Elliot Giles Sam Atkin Zak Seddon Lawrence Okoye Matthew Hudson-Smith Event: 800m Event: 10,000m Event: 3000m steeplechase Event: Discus Event: 4x400m relay

DOB: 26/05/1994 DOB: 14/03/1993 DOB: 28/06/1994 DOB: 06/10/1991 DOB: 26/10/1994 Hometown: West Midlands: Hometown: West Midlands: Hometown: Derbyshire: Derby Hometown: Berkshire: Twyford Hometown: London: Croydon Twitter: @samatkin_ Twitter: @Zakeroo12 Previous Games attended: Instagram: @samatkin_ Instagram: @zakeroo London 2012 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @mattonthefloor Twitter: @ElliotLeviGiles Instagram: @matthudsonsmith Instagram: @elliot_levi_giles Link for bio Link for bio 32 ATHLETICS | ATHLETE BIOS ATHLETE BIOS | ATHLETICS 33 BADMINTON

Staff Bios

Sara Symington Gordon Bosworth Andi Drake Jeff Porter Derry Suter Matt Yates Team Leader Therapist Coach Head Coach Coach Therapist Coach

NEW

Santiago Antunez James Brown Lorna Dwyer Catherine McCormick Duncan Robertson Carl Todd Andrew Young Coach Doctor Team Manager Therapist Doctor Therapist Coach

NEW

Tim Benjamin Charlie Burn Tore Gustafsson Aston Moore Jennifer Savage Ross Tugwood Tommy Yule Coach Team Manager Coach Coach Psychologist Biomechanist Deputy Team Leader

Jon Bigg Robert Hawkins Jon Murray Andy Shaw Bertrand Valcin Liz Birchall Coach Coach Coach Therapist Physiologist Coach Media Officer

John Blackie Leon Creaney Maddy Ibbett Shaun Pickering Scott Simpson Helen van Kempen Team Manager Coach Doctor Coach Coach Therapist

Bengt-Erik Blomkvist Robert Denmark Chris Jones George Polglass Poora Singh Andy Walling Coach Coach Coach Therapist Therapist Therapist

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34 ATHLETICS | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | BADMINTON 35 At Sydney 2000, and won Team GB’s first-ever badminton medal with Badminton mixed doubles bronze before and Introduction went one better in Athens four years later by taking silver. A fast-moving, intense and exciting spectacle, And five years ago, and Marcus badminton returns as a medal sport for its Ellis ensured British representation on the men’s eighth Olympic Games in Tokyo. Having been doubles medal podium for the first time by brilliantly a demonstration sport in both 1972 and 1988, beating Chinese pair and in badminton was finally granted full Olympic status at the bronze medal match. Barcelona 1992 and has become one of the most exhilarating events to watch at every Games since. Ellis returns for his second Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, teaming up with – his Tokyo 2020 will see five events contested – men’s partner on and off the court – in the mixed doubles. and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles Ellis and Smith have cemented themselves in the and mixed doubles – with every match being world’s top ten over the past few years and their best-of-three games and the first player or pair to silver medal at this year’s European Championships reach 21 points winning the game. If the score in in Ukraine shows a pair still on the up. any game reaches 20-20, the margin of victory must be two clear points until it reaches 29-29, when next Smith also claimed European silver alongside Chloe point wins. Birch in the women’s doubles in Kiev and the pair will look for a similar display in Tokyo. The singles events in Tokyo will see players divided into 12-16 groups of three or four players for a series Meanwhile, Toby Penty – who became British No.1 of round-robin matches, with the top-ranked player in 2019 and has been steadily climbing the world in each group advancing to the round of 16, from rankings ever since – will make his Olympic debut in where it’s a straight knockout competition. the men’s singles. Meanwhile, in the doubles, players are divided into four round-robin groups of four and the two And in the women’s event, Kirsty Gilmour is heading top-ranked pairs in each group then progress to the to her second Olympics five years on from her quarter-finals, with the event becoming a single- debut in Rio, although the Scot first had a taste of elimination knockout tournament from there. the Games as part of the Ambition Programme at London 2012. While have dominated the Olympic badminton medal podium since the sport’s introduction in 1992 – winning 18 of the 34 golds on offer – Team GB have held their own with three memorable medal performances.

36 BADMINTON | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | BADMINTON 37 Events Schedule

= Women = Men = Women & Men (Mixed Event) = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

24 09.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage 31 09.00- M Singles Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage July 16.00 W Doubles Semi-Finals M W---Mixed Doubles Group Stage 18.00- M ---Doubles Bronze Medal Match & 18.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage 23.00 Gold Medal Match 22.00 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage W Singles Semi-Finals

W W---Mixed Doubles Group Stage 01 13.00- M Singles Semi-Finals Aug 16.00 25 10.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage --- July 15.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage 20.30- W ---Singles Bronze Medal Match & Gold 23.00 M W---Mixed Doubles Group Stage Medal Match

18.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage 02 13.00- W ---Doubles Bronze Medal Match & Gold 21.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage Aug 15.30 Medal Match M W---Mixed Doubles Group Stage 20.00- W ---Singles Bronze Medal Match & Gold 23.00 Medal Match 26 10.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage July 15.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage

M W---Mixed Doubles Group Stage

18.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage

21.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage Team GB at the Olympic Games M W---Mixed Doubles Group Stage

27 09.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage July 14.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage

18.00- M Singles & Doubles Group Stage

21.30 W Singles & Doubles Group Stage

Sydney 2000 1 28 09.00- W Singles Group Stage July 14.30 M W---Mixed Doubles Quarter-Finals

18.00- M Singles Group Stage 21.30

29 09.00- M Doubles Quarter-Finals 1 July 15.30 Athens 2004 W Singles Round of 16 M W----Mixed Doubles Semi-Finals Gold 17.00- M Singles Round of 16 22.00 W Doubles Quarter-Finals

Rio 2016 1 30 09.00- W Singles Quarter-Finals July 12.30 Silver M W------Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match 15.30- M Doubles Semi-Finals 21.30 M Singles Quarter-Final

M W--- Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match ALL-TIME TOTAL 1 2 Bronze

38 BADMINTON | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | BADMINTON 39 BOXING

Athlete Bios

Toby Penty Chloe Birch Event: Men’s Singles Event: Women’s Doubles

DOB: 12/08/1992 DOB: 16/09/1995 Hometown: Surrey: Walton-on-Thames Hometown: South Yorkshire: Sheffield Twitter: @TobyPenty Twitter: @ChloeBirch95 Instagram: @TobyPenty1 Instagram: @chloebirch95 Link for bio Link for bio

Kirsty GIlmour Event: Women’s Singles Event: Men’s Doubles

DOB: 21/09/1993 DOB: 13/07/1997 Hometown: Scotland: Bothwell Hometown: Devon: Exmouth Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @BenLane012 Twitter: @KirstyGilmourr Instagram: @benlane012 Instagram: @kirstygilmourr Link for bio Link for bio

Marcus Ellis Event: Mixed Doubles Event: Men’s Doubles

DOB: 14/09/1989 DOB: 18/05/1996 Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: : Huddersfield Milton Keynes Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @SeanVendy Twitter: @ellis_marcus111 Instagram: @seanvendy_ Instagram: @marcusellis89 Link for bio Link for bio

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Lauren Smith Event: Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

DOB: 26/09/1991 Hometown: Cumbria: Carlisle Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @LaurenE_Smith Instagram: @LaurenE_Smith Link for bio

Staff Bios

Jon Austin Gemma Field Peter Jeffrey Julian Robertson Nathan Robertson Julia Sawkings Team Leader Media Officer Head Coach National Coach National Coach Physio

40 BADMINTON | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | BOXING 41 Future professional stars including Anthony Joshua and Audley Harrison have made their name at the Boxing Olympics but only two Brits have won multiple gold Introduction medals – middleweight Harry Mallin (1920 & 1924) and flyweight Nicola Adams, who became the first-ever Olympic champion in women’s boxing at With origins that can be traced all the way back to London 2012 and followed that up with the ancient Greeks and contested at every Olympic Rio 2016 gold. Games bar one since 1904, boxing will continue to deliver its unique mix of physicality and technical Taking place at the Ryogoku Sumo Hall, Team GB skill in Tokyo. Unlike its professional sibling, amateur will send 11 boxers to Tokyo as they bid to better the boxing, employed at Olympic level, consists of three three medals secured five years ago. rounds of three minutes of short, sharp action for both men and women. There is plenty of promise in a hungry squad which features middleweight world champion Lauren The rules on headguards and the scoring system Price, a former international footballer for Wales, have evolved over the years, with the current and 2018 Youth Olympic gold medallist Caroline structure seeing women wearing head protection Dubois (lightweight). but men not, while five ringside judges will score each bout to decide a winner – if there’s no victory Completing the female line-up is featherweight by knockout. Karriss Artingstall and flyweight star Charley Davison, who has made waves since returning to boxing less Each judge scores the contest independently, their than two years ago after taking a seven-year break round-by-round tally is totted up and the boxer from the sport – during which time she had with the higher score on the majority of judges’ three children. scorecards is declared the winner. For the men, McCormack brothers Luke Competitors fight in weight classes in a straight (lightweight) and Pat (welterweight) will be hoping knockout elimination format until just two fighters for double family success in Japan. remain to contest the gold medal bout. World light heavyweight bronze medallist Ben In Tokyo, the men will fight across eight divisions Whittaker, heavyweight Cheavon Clarke and super (flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, heavyweight Commonwealth champion Frazer middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight Clarke are all medal contenders too. and super heavyweight) while the women will fight across five (flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, And completing the line-up is welterweight and middleweight). bronze medallist Galal Yafai (flyweight) and World Championship bronze medallist Peter McGrail Team GB have enjoyed great success in boxing, (featherweight). winning a total of 56 Olympic medals, including 18 golds, to sit third in the overall medal table.

42 BOXING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | BOXING 43 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event Date Time Event

W Lightweight Quarter-Finals 24 11.00- M Featherweight Round of 32, 30 11.00- M Welterweight Quarter-Finals, July 14.30 M Welterweight Round of 32, July 14.10 M Light Heavyweight 04 14.00- M Super Heavyweight Semi-Finals, ---- M Heavyweight Round of 32 M Quarter-Finals, Heavyweight Aug 16.10 M Light Heavyweight Final

W M Quarter-Finals Featherweight Round of 32, W Flyweight Semi-Finals, W W Lightweight Round of 16, Welterweight Welterweight Round of 32 W Welterweight Semi-Finals W Quarter-Finals 11.00- M Featherweight Round of 32, 05 14.00- M Flyweight Semi-Finals, 14.30 M Welterweight Round of 32, 17.00- M Welterweight Quarter-Finals, Aug 16.10 20.10 M Middleweight Semi-Finals, M Super Heavyweight (R/o) 32, M Light Heavyweight M ---- Featherweight Final M Quarter-Finals, M Lightweight Round of 32, W Lightweight Semi-Finals 25 11.00- M Heavyweight Quarter-Finals July 14.45 M Light Heavyweight Round of 32 M Lightweight Semi-Finals, ---- W Lightweight Round of 16, Welterweight 06 14.00- W Aug 15.40 Flyweight Round of 32, Middleweight M Heavyweight Final W Quarter-Finals W Round of 32 W ---- Middleweight Semi-Finals

M Lightweight Round of 32, 31 11.00- M Flyweight Round of 16, 17.00- 07 14.00- M ---- Flyweight Final, July 13.55 20.45 M Light Heavyweight Round of 32 M Lightweight Round of 16, Aug 15.55 M ---- Middleweight Final W Middleweight Quarter-Finals, W Flyweight Round of 32 W ---- Flyweight Final, W Featherweight Semi-Finals W ---- Welterweight Final 26 11.00- M Flyweight Round of 32, Middleweight M Flyweight Round of 16, July 14.45 M Round of 32 17.00- Team GB at the Olympic Games 19.55 08 14.00- M ---- Lightweight Final, M Lightweight Round of 16, Aug 15.55 W Featherweight Round of 32 M ---- Super Heavyweight Final W Middleweight Quarter-Finals, W M Flyweight Round of 32, Middleweight ---- Lightweight Final, ---- 17.00- W Featherweight Semi-Finals W 20.45 M Round of 32 Middleweight Final

W Featherweight Round of 32 01 11.00- M Featherweight Quarter-Finals, Aug 13.40 M Welterweight Semi-Finals, M Welterweight Round of 16, 27 11.00- M Middleweight Quarter-Finals, 1 2 July 14.45 Beijing 2008 M Heavyweight Round of 16 M Light Heavyweight Semi-Finals, W Lightweight Round of 32, Welterweight M Super Heavyweight Quarter-Finals W Round of 16

17.00- M Welterweight Round of 16, W Flyweight Quarter-Finals 20.45 M Heavyweight Round of 16 London 2012 3 1 1 17.00- M Featherweight Quarter-Finals, W Lightweight Round of 32, Welterweight 19.40 M Welterweight Semi-Finals, Gold W Round of 16 M Middleweight Quarter-Finals, M Light Heavyweight Semi-Finals, 28 11.00- M Featherweight Round of 16, July 14.45 M Super Heavyweight Quarter-Finals Rio 2016 1 1 1 M Light Heavyweight Round of 16 W Featherweight Quarter-Finals, Silver W Flyweight Quarter-Finals W Middleweight Round of 16

M Flyweight Quarter-Finals, Featherweight 17.00- M Featherweight Round of 16, 03 11.00- Aug 13.40 20.45 M Light Heavyweight Round of 16 M Semi-Finals, M Lightweight Quarter-Finals, ALL-TIME TOTAL 18 13 25 Bronze W Featherweight Quarter-Finals, M Heavyweight Semi-Finals W Middleweight Round of 16 W Lightweight Quarter-Finals,

29 11.00- M Middleweight Round of 16, W Featherweight Final July 1410 M Super Heavyweight (R/o) 16 17.00- M Flyweight Quarter-Finals, Featherweight W Flyweight Round of 16 19.40 M Semi-Finals,

17.00- M Middleweight Round of 16, M Lightweight Quarter-Finals, 20.10 M Super Heavyweight (R/o) 16 M Heavyweight Semi-Finals,

W Featherweight Round of 32 M Welterweight Final

44 BOXING | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | BOXING 45 CANOEING

Athlete Bios

Charley Davison Luke McCormack Galal Yafai Event: Flyweight Event: Lightweight Event: Flyweight

DOB: 24/11/1993 DOB: 08/06/1995 DOB: 11/12/1992 Hometown: Suffolk: Lowestoft Hometown: Tyne and Wear: Hometown: West Midlands: Twitter: @charleydavison3 Washington Birmingham

Instagram: Twitter: @luke_mc1 Previous Games attended: @charley_sian_davison Instagram: @luke_mccormackno1 Rio 2016 CANOE SLALOM Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @galal_yafai Instagram: @galalyafai Link for bio

Karriss Artingstall Pat McCormack Peter McGrail Event: Featherweight Event: Welterweight Event: Featherweight

DOB: 23/11/1994 DOB: 08/06/1995 DOB: 31/05/1996 Hometown: Cheshire: Hometown: Tyne and Wear: Hometown: Merseyside: Liverpool Macclesfield Washington Twitter: @peter_mcgrail Twitter: @karriss_imogen Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @peter_mcgrail Instagram: @karriss_artingstall Twitter: @PatMcCormack1 Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @patmccormack14 Link for bio

Caroline Dubois Ben Whittaker Frazer Clarke Event: Lightweight Event: Light-heavyweight Event: Super-heavyweight

DOB: 11/01/2001 DOB: 06/06/1997 DOB: 07/08/1991 Hometown: London: Enfield Hometown: West Midlands: Hometown: Staffordshire: Burton Instagram: @__carolinedubois1 Darlaston Twitter: @BigFrazeBoxer Link for bio Twitter: @BenGWhittaker Instagram: @bigfrazeboxer Instagram: @benwhittaker Link for bio Link for bio CANOE SPRINT Lauren Price Cheavon Clarke Event: Middleweight Event: Heavyeight

DOB: 25/06/1994 DOB: 14/12/1990 Hometown: Wales: Ystrad Mynach Hometown: Kent: Gravesend Twitter: @LLPrice94 Twitter: @c4chev Instagram: @llprice94 Instagram: @c4chev Link for bio Link for bio

Staff Bios

Rob McCracken Dave Alloway Mark Ellison Andrew Hogg Rob McCracken Ed Owen Sophie Smith-Moore Team Leader Senior Podium Coach Nutritionist Doctor Performance Director Physiotherapist Physiotherapist

Graham Alderson Chris Connelly Gary Hale Kate Ludlam Jamie Mitchell Lee Pullen Lee Murgatroyd Podium and Academy Coach Performance Analyst Podium Coach Psychologist Physiologist Senior Podium Coach Media Officer

46 BOXING | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | CANOEING 47 The trio of Heath, Brabants and Florence are responsible for nine of Team GB’s 17 total Olympic Canoeing canoeing medals, while Joe Clarke made history Introduction in Rio by becoming the first Brit to win a solo slalom gold when he triumphed in the men’s K1.Speaking of history, Mallory Franklin will be looking to create A regular fixture at the Olympics since the Berlin some as women’s C1 slalom makes its debut, by 1936 Olympic Games, canoeing always delivers becoming just the second British female to earn an lung-busting, high-octane drama on the water - and Olympic canoeing medal, following Helen Reeves’ Tokyo will be no different. K1 slalom bronze at Athens 2004.Franklin is already The Games this year will see the sport once again Great Britain’s most successful female paddler of contested in two main disciplines, canoe slalom all-time with nine World Championship medals and and canoe sprint, with 16 events scheduled to take six European golds, as her favoured discipline finally place in Japan’s capital. enters the Games. will host the sprint events, Although flat-water canoe and kayak events first which consist of head-to-head races conducted joined the Olympic schedule in 1936, slalom events on flat water as opposed to the dramatic white- weren’t included in the programme until a one-off water time trials of the canoe slalom competition. appearance at Munich 1972. Despite its early In the sprint discipline, athletes are either seated popularity, canoe slalom dropped off the schedule in a kayak (K events) using a two-bladed paddle again but has been on the programme ever since or kneeling in a canoe (C events) using a single- returning at Barcelona 1992, with the adrenaline- bladed paddle, with the simple outcome of the first fuelled time trials providing a great visual spectacle. boat to cross the line being the winner. For the 2020 Games, the slalom discipline will take place at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre as athletes As a three-time medallist, Liam Heath is Team – competing in either a kayak (K events) or canoe GB canoe sprint Olympic royalty – having won (C events) – complete timed runs down a 300m K1 200m gold and K2 200m silver alongside Jon stretch of white-water rapids with up to 25 gates Schofield at Rio 2016, the latter result improving on to negotiate. the bronze he and Schofield picked up in the same event at London four years earlier.Heath will again Time penalties are doled out for either touching or compete in the K1 200m at Tokyo and a medal of missing a gate entirely, and the fastest time wins. any colour would move the Surrey native out on his Having been a member of the Team GB Ambition own as Britain’s most-decorated Olympic paddler, Programme at Rio 2016, Kimberley Woods will make surpassing the three-medal tallies of Tim Brabants her full Olympic debut in the women’s K1 single, and David Florence. Heath will be joined in Tokyo while Adam Burgess (C1) and Bradley Forbes- by fellow canoe sprinters Deborah Kerr and Emily Cryans (K1) provide the British medal hopes in the Lewis, who will take on the K1 500m and K1 200m men’s canoe slalom events. respectively in their first Olympic Games, while Katie Reid has been selected in the C1 to make a four- strong sprint squad.

48 CANOEING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | CANOEING 49 Events Schedule

= Women = Men = Women & Men (Mixed Event) = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

CANOE SLALOM CANOE SPRINT

25 July 13:00-16.45 K1 Heats 04 Aug 9:30-12.40 K1 200m Heats & Quarter-Finals,

C1 Heats K2 1000m Heats & Quarter-Finals

C1 200m Heats & Quarter-Finals, 26 July 14:00-16:45 C1 Semi-Finals & Final K1 500m Heats & Quarter-Finals 27 July 14:00-17:00 C1 Semi-Finals & Final 05 Aug 9.30-13.05 K1 200m Semi-Finals & Final,

28 July 13:00-16:45 C1 Heats K2 1000m Semi-Finals & Final

K1 Heats C1 200m Semi-Finals & Final,

29 July 14:00-16:45 C1 Semi-Finals & Final K1 500m Semi-Finals & Final

30 July 14:00-17:00 K1 Semi-Finals & Final 06 Aug 9.30-11.40 C1 1000m Heats & Quarter-Finals,

K4 500m Heats CANOE SPRINT C2 500m Heats & Quarter-Finals, 02 Aug 9:30-13.00 C2 1000m Heats & Quarter-Finals, Team GB at the Olympic Games K4 500m Heats K1 1000m Heats & Quarter-Finals

K1 200m Heats & Quarter-Finals, 07 Aug 9.30-12.50 ------C1 1000m Semi-Finals & Final, -----

K2 500m Heats & Quarter-Finals - K4 500m Semi-Finals & Final

C2 500m Heats & Quarter-Finals, 1 1 1 03 Aug 9:30-13.15 C2 1000m Semi-Finals & Finals, Beijing 2008 ------C2 500m Semi-Finals & Final, K1 1000m Semi-Finals & Final ------K4 500m Semi-Finals & Final K1 200m Semi-Finals & Final,

K2 500m Semi-Finals & Final London 2012 2 1 1 Gold

Rio 2016 2 2 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 5 7 5 Bronze

50 CANOEING | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | CANOEING 51 CYCLING

Athlete Bios

Canoe Slalom: Canoe Sprint:

Adam Burgess Katie Reid Event: C1 Event: C1

DOB: 17/07/1992 DOB: 26/02/1995 Hometown: Staffordshire: Hometown: Scotland: Stone Dunfermline Twitter: @slalom_burgess Twitter: @katiejaynereid Instagram: @slalom_burgess Link for bio Link for bio

Kimberley Woods Liam Heath Event: K1 Event: K1 200m

DOB: 08/09/1995 DOB: 17/08/1984 Hometown: Warwickshire: Hometown: Surrey: Guilford Rugby Previous Games attended: Twitter: @kim_woods_95 Rio 2016, London 2012 Instagram: @kimberleywoods Twitter: @Liam_Heath Link for bio Instagram: @Heath_Liam

1 1 1 Link for bio

Bradley Forbes-Cryans Deborah Kerr Event: K1 Event: K1 500m

DOB: 25/03/1995 DOB: 17/11/1997 Hometown: Scotland: Roslin Hometown: Scotland: Twitter: @BForbesCryans Motherwell Instagram: @bforbescryans Twitter: @​kerrd09 Link for bio Instagram: @deborahhhk Link for bio

Mallory Franklin Emily Lewis Event: C1 Event: K1 200m

DOB: 19/06/1994 DOB: 15/05/1993 Hometown: Berkshire: Windsor Hometown: Worcestershire: Twitter: @Mall_Franklin Malvern Instagram: @mallorysfranklin Instagram: @emilylewis__93 Link for bio Link for bio

Staff Bios

Canoe: Canoe Slalom: Canoe Sprint:

Paul Ratcliffe Danielle Adams Andrew Powell Kristen Wright Eric Farrell Kristina Medovcikova Scott Simon Team Leader Performance Psychologist Physio Performance Analyst Coach Coach Head Coach

Shelley Wyatt Richard Hounslow Mark Ratcliffe Patrick Harding Mike Mustoe Media Officer Coach Head Coach Physio Performance Analyst

52 CANOEING | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | CYCLING 53 What is most remarkable about the rise of is the speed at which it has occurred. Chris Boardman’s gold in 1992 was the first British cycling title since World War II, while eight years later it was Jason Cycling Queally who won the now discontinued kilo time trial on the track and was the catalyst for the domination that Introduction would follow.

Of all the success that Team GB have enjoyed in the last Wiggins and Hoy shared a gold apiece in Athens and two decades, perhaps no sport has played a bigger role since then the medals have not stopped coming, most than cycling. notably with three successive titles in both the men’s and , as well as the two golds in It is no coincidence that the list of Britain’s most successful the women’s team pursuit since that was introduced Olympians in medal terms is topped by a trio of cyclists, in London. while the most successful British female Olympian has also earned her medals on two wheels. While neither Wiggins nor Hoy will compete in Tokyo, there are still a lot of familiar faces in the squad, not least Between them, Jason Kenny (six gold medals and one the Kennys and three-time Olympic champion , silver) and wife (four gold medals) have an the most experienced member of the astonishing ten Olympic titles and will be looking to add team pursuit. to that tally in Tokyo. The four-strong British team for the men’s road race, Any sort of medal would be enough for Jason to break which will take place to the west of Tokyo, finishing at the the tie that he currently has with former team sprint circuit in Shizuoka, contains a trio of Grand colleague Sir Chris Hoy, while the third member of the Tour winners, including 2018 Tour de winner and trio of all-time male greats is none other than Sir Bradley double Olympic champion . Wiggins, who claimed his fifth gold medal, and record eighth Olympic medal in Rio. On the women’s side, will be looking to upgrade the silver she won in London in 2012. Meanwhile, Laura is the only British woman in history to win four Olympic golds and will also try to become Team At the other end of the experience spectrum is Tom GB’s first female athlete to claim Olympic golds at three Pidcock, Team GB’s best hope in the mountain biking, just separate Games in Tokyo. Only in athletics have British 21 but already with the biggest-ever victory margin in a competitors won more medals in Olympic history but, mountain bike World Cup event, winning by a minute in since 2008, Team GB have managed to claim 38 medals Nove Mesto in May. from 54 events in cycling. Chef-turned-BMX Freestyle Park star Charlotte Worthington The majority of that success has come on the track, both became the first British woman to win a world medal in in the sprint and endurance events. However, cycling the discipline with bronze in 2019 and will look to emulate in 2020 will expand even further, with a fifth discipline that in the sport’s Olympics debut. added to the Olympic programme. BMX Freestyle Park enters the equation, with BMX Supercross having been added in 2008. Along with the two BMX events, mountain biking has been part of the Games since 1996, while track and road cycling date back to the very first Olympics, with the sport one of just five to have featured in every Games.

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= Women = Men = Women & Men (Mixed Event) = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

ROAD 03 Aug 15.30-18.10 Team Sprint Qualifying, Road Race 24 July 11.00-18.15 ----- First Round & Finals; Team Pursuit

25 July 13.00-17.35 Road Race First Round

ME----- Team Pursuit First Round, Finals 28 July 11.30-17.40 Individual Time Trial

Individual Time Trial 04 Aug 15.30-18.10 Sprint Qualifying, 1/32 Finals,

1/32 Repechages, 1/16 Finals, MOUNTAIN BIKE 1/16 Repechages; 26 July 15.00-17.00 Cross-Country ----- Team Pursuit Finals 26 July 15.00-17.00 Cross-Country First Round, Repechages

BMX RACING 05 Aug 15.30-18.10 : Scratch Race, 29 July 10.00-12.00 Quarter-Finals Tempo Race, Elimination Race & Points Quarter-Finals Team GB at the Olympic Games Race; Sprint 1/8 Finals, 1/8 Repechages, Semi-Finals & Final 30 July 10.00-12.00 Quarter-Finals & Race for 5th-8th Places Semi-Finals & Final Keirin Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals,

Final 7-12 & Final 1-6 BMX FREESTYLE 8 4 2 Bejjing 2008 31 July 10.10-12.20 Park Seeding

Park Seeding 06 Aug 15.30-19.15 Sprint Semi-Finals & Finals

------Sprint Qualifying, 1/32 Finals, 1/32 01 Aug 10.10-12.50 Park Final 8 Repechages, 1/16 Finals London 2012 2 2 Park Final & 1/16 Repechages; Madison Final Gold TRACK 07 Aug 15.30-18.25 ------Keirin First Round & Repechages; ---- Rio 2016 6 4 2 02 Aug 15.30-18.30 Team Pursuit Qualifying ------Madison Final Silver ---- Team Sprint Qualifying, First Round & Sprint 1/8 Finals, 1/8 Repechages Finals; Team Pursuit Qualifying & Quarter-Finals ALL-TIME TOTAL 32 30 25 Bronze 08 Aug 15.30-18.25 Keirin Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, Final

7-12 & Final 1-6

------Omnium: Scratch Race, Temp Race,

Elimination Race & Points Race; Sprint

Semi-Finals, Race for 5th-8th Places

& Finals

56 CYCLING | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | CYCLING 57 Athlete Bios BMX: Mountain Bike: Road: Kye Whyte Road Cycling Reserves Ollie Wood Katy Marchant Event: Track Endurance Event: BMX Supercross Event: Mountain Bike Event: Road Event: Track Sprint James Knox DOB: 21/09/1999 DOB: 30/07/1999 DOB: 30/03/1995 Event: Road DOB: 26/11/1995 DOB: 30/01/1993 Hometown: London: Peckham Hometown: West Yorkshire: Leeds Hometown: London: Hackney Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: West Yorkshire: Leeds Wakefield Twitter: @Tompid Twitter: @kye969 Twitter: @taogeoghegan DOB: 04/11/1995 Twitter: @olliewood95 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @tompidcock Instagram: @kyewhyte87 Instagram: @taogeogheganhart Hometown: Cumbria: Levens Instagram: @olliewood95 Twitter: @katymarch Link for bio Twitter: @JamesKnoxx Instagram: @katymarchant Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @james_knox4 Link for bio Link for bio 1 Joss Lowden Evie Richards Geraint Thomas Event: Road Beth Shriever Jack Carlin Event: BMX Supercross Event: Mountain Bike Event: Road Event: Track Endurance Event: Track Sprint DOB: 11/03/1997 DOB: 25/05/1986 DOB: 03/10/1987 DOB: 19/04/1999 DOB: 12/03/1994 DOB: 23/04/1997 Hometown: Worcestershire: Malvern Hometown: Wales: Cardiff Hometown: East Sussex: Lewes Hometown: Essex: Finchingfield Hometown: Scotland: Milngavie Hometown: Scotland: Paisley Twitter: @eviee_alicee Previous Games attended: Twitter: @JossyLowden Twitter: @bethanyshriever Previous Games attended: Twitter: @jack_carlin97 Instagram: @eviealicerichards Beijing 2008, Instagram: @josslowden Instagram: @bethanyshriever Rio 2016 Instagram: @jackcarlin97 Link for bio London 2012, Rio 2016 Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @_katiearchibald Link for bio Twitter: @GeraintThomas86 Instagram: @_katiearchibald Instagram: @geraintthomas86 Link for bio 2 Link for bio Track: 1

Adam Yates Ed Clancy Elinor Barker Jason Kenny Declan Brooks Event: Track Endurance Event: BMX Freestyle Park Event: Road Event: Track Endurance Event: Track Sprint

DOB: 07/08/1992 DOB: 12/03/1985 DOB: 07/09/1994 DOB: 23/03/1988 DOB: 10/07/1996 Hometown: Greater Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: Wales: Cardiff Hometown: : Hometown: Hampshire: Portsmouth Manchester: Bury Huddersfield Previous Games attended: Bolton Twitter: @declanbrooksbmx Previous Games attended: Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Instagram: @declanbrooks Rio 2016 Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 Twitter: @elinorbarker Beijing 2008, Link for bio Twitter: @AdamYates7 Twitter: @Ed_Clancy Instagram: @elinorbarker London 2012, Rio 2016 Instagram: @adamyates7 Instagram: @ed.clancy Link for bio Twitter: @JasonKenny107 3 1 Link for bio Link for bio 1 6 1 Link for bio Simon Yates Ryan Owens Charlotte Worthington Event: Road Event: Track Endurance Event: Track Endurance Event: Track Sprint Event: BMX Freestyle Park DOB: 07/08/1992 DOB: 18/09/1998 DOB: 01/08/1990 DOB: 26/06/1996 DOB: 29/09/1995 Hometown: Greater Hometown: London: South Hometown: Scotland: Cuminestown Hometown: Greater Manchester: London Hometown: Bedfordshire: Manchester: Bury Twitter: @neahevans Manchester Twitter: @ethan_hayter Aspley Guise Twitter: @SimonYatess Instagram: @neah.evans Twitter: @chazworther Instagram: @ethanhayter Twitter: @ryanowens0 Instagram: @simonyatess Link for bio Instagram: @chazworther Link for bio Instagram: @ryan_owens1995 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Lizzie Deignan Ethan Vernon Laura Kenny Event: Track Endurance BMX Reserves Event: Road Event: Track Endurance Track Reserves DOB: 26/08/2000 James Jones DOB: 18/12/1988 DOB: 24/04/1992 Event: Track Sprint Event: BMX Freestyle Park Hometown: West Yorkshire: Otley Hometown: Bedfordshire: Bedford Hometown: Hertfordshire: Cheshunt Previous Games attended: London 2012, Twitter: @EthanVernon22 Previous Games attended: DOB: 22/09/1992 DOB: 03/04/1994 Rio 2016 Instagram: @ethanvernon00 London 2012, Rio 2016 Hometown: : Krefeld Hometown: Wales: Sandfields Twitter: @lizziedeignan Link for bio Twitter: @LauraKenny31 Previous Games attended: Twitter: @Jamesjones_bmx Instagram: @I_deignan Instagram: @laurakenny31 London 2012, Rio 2016 Instagram: @jamesjonesbmx Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @Philip_hindes Link for bio Instagram: @phindes 1 4 Link for bio Matt Walls Josie Knight Ross Cullen Anna Shackley Event: Track Endurance Event: Track Endurance Event: Track Endurance Event: BMX Supercross Event: Road DOB: 20/04/1998 DOB: 29/03/1997 DOB: 17/05/2001 DOB: 17/11/1996 DOB: 28/03/2001 Hometown: Greater Hometown: Ireland: Dingle Hometown: Scotland: Milngavie Hometown: North Yorkshire: Great Ayton Hometown: Lancashire: Chorley Manchester: Oldham Twitter: @JosieKnight97 Twitter: @AnnaShackley12 Twitter: @CharlieTanfield Twitter: @rosscullen Twitter: @wallsey_98 Instagram: @knight_josie Instagram: @anna.shackley Instagram: @charlie_tanfield Instagram: @rosscullenn_ Instagram: @wallsey_98 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

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Staff Bios

Stephen Park Jamie Bestwick Iain Dyer Ben Jenkins Piotr Michaliszyn Jonathan Quaglierini Simon Watts Team Leader BMX FP Coach Men’s Track Endurance Coach Road Team Carer MTB Team Mechanic Road Team Carer MTB Coach

Megan Aitchison Marcus Bloomfield Ernie Feargrieve Nigel Jones Keith Reynolds MTB Carer BMX SX Coach Track Team Mechanic Doctor Women’s Road Coach Team Leader Support

Abby Burton Matt Brammeier Gus Gillies Richard King Jon Norfolk Matt Simmonds Media Officer Men’s Road Coach Road Team Mechanic BMX FP Manager Performance Manager MTB Technical Coach

Sophie Ball Jeff Crombie Monica Greenwood Benjamin Macdonald Alex O’Gorman Rebecca Toone Track Performance Analyst Road Team Mechanic Women’s Endurance Track Coach Track Team Physio Road Team Physio MTB Physiologist

Emma Barton Hannah Crowley Rich Hampson Phil Macdonald Marco Pinotti Marek Ufnal Performance Support Track Physio Sports Phsyce Track Team Carer Time Trial Coach BMX Team Mechanic

Brock Berling Eamonn Deane Alex Jaffrey Lewis Marsden Scott Pollock Road Team Chef Track Carer Track Team Mechanic Track Performance Analyst Men’s Sprint Coach Women’s Sprint Coach

60 CYCLING | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | DIVING 61 Laugher and became Team GB’s first-ever Olympic diving gold medallists when they Diving memorably claimed the men’s 3m synchronised Introduction springboard title at Rio. Also in 2016, Laugher picked up a silver in the 3m Platform diving made its Olympic debut in springboard, while and Dan Goodfellow 1904, with ‘fancy diving’, or the style we know combined for bronze in the 10m synchro. Laugher’s as springboard today, being added four years double medal haul ensured his status as Team GB’s later. The 1908 London Olympics also marked most successful Olympic diver of all-time, while he the first time Great Britain took part, as the men’s and Mears were the only non-Chinese athletes to springboard event was introduced to replace a win a Rio diving gold. plunge for distance competition. The now-26-year-old has the chance to add to his Women were able to compete from 1912 but it was tally as he will compete in the 3m springboard and not until 2000 when synchronised categories were the 3m synchro alongside Goodfellow. Laugher will first included. In both springboard and platform be joined in the 3m individual event by 24-year-old events, men complete six dives and women James Heatly, while Daley will look to achieve that perform five dives, seeking to gain the highest total elusive Olympic gold medal when he competes in score from poolside judges, who are deducting the men’s 10m platform. points from a perfect score of ten and multiplying the total by the degree of difficulty tariff assigned to The two-time Olympic bronze medallist will also each selected dive. feature in the 10m synchro with , while another debutant, , also competes in Since Great Britain first took part, British divers have the 10m individual event. won 10 Olympic medals comprising one gold, three silvers and six bronzes to sit 13th on the all-time On the women’s side, BBC Young Sports Personality medal table. There will be eight medals up for of the Year 2020 Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois grabs in Tokyo with individual and synchronised Toulson will go in the 10m platform, as Toulson also events for the men and women across the 3m partners first-time Olympian Eden Cheng in the springboard and 10m platform categories. 10m synchro. In the 3m springboard events, Grace Reid will look to improve on the eighth place she In all four synchronised events, the pairs will head achieved in the individual event in Rio. straight into a final to battle for medals, while the individual events have both preliminaries and semi- Reid, who alongside Daley is coached by Jane finals to determine the divers that will advance to Figueiredo, will also compete in the 3m synchro the final. with Kat Torrance. Completing the Team GB line- up is 19-year-old Scarlett Mew Jensen who will Team GB will be represented in all categories with compete in the 3m springboard and is one of eight 12 divers selected, including reigning Olympic debutants in the diving squad. champion .

62 DIVING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | DIVING 63 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

25 July 15.00-16.00 W ME----Synchronised 3m Springboard Final 03 Aug 10.00-11.30 M 3m Springboard Semi-Final

26 July 15.00-16.00 M ME----Synchronised 10m Platform Final 15.00-16.30 M ME----3m Springboard Final

27 July 15.00-16.00 W ME----Synchronised 10m Platform Final 04 Aug 15.00-17.30 W 10m Platform Preliminary

28 July 15.00-16.00 M ME----Synchronised 3m Springboard Final 05 Aug 10.00-11.25 W 10m Platform Semi-Final

15.00-16.25 W ME----10m Platform Final 30 July 15.00-17.30 W 3m Springboard Preliminary

06 Aug 15.00-17.30 M 10m Platform Preliminary 31 July 15.00-16.25 W 3m Springboard Semi-Final

M 10m Platform Semi-Final 01 Aug 15.00-16.25 W ME----3m Springboard Final 07 Aug 10.00-11.40

15.00-16.25 M ME----10m Platform Final 02 Aug 15.00-17.30 M 3m Springboard Preliminary

Team GB at the Olympic Games Athlete Bios

Eden Cheng James Heatly Scarlett Mew Jensen Event: 10m synchro Event: 3m springboard Event: 3m springboard DOB: 20/05/1997 DOB: 02/12/2002 DOB: 31/12/2001 Hometown: Hampshire: Hometown: London: Dulwich Hometown: London Winchester Instagram: @eden.chengx Twitter: @scarmewjensen Previous Games attended: Link for bio Instagram: @scarlettmjensen Beijing 2008 Rio 2016, London 2012 Link for bio Twitter: @JamesHeatly Instagram: @jamesheatly Link for bio 1 London 2012 Grace Reid Tom Daley Jack Laugher Event: 3m synchro, 3m springboard Event: 10m synchro, 10m Event: 3m Synchro, 3m DOB: 21/05/1994 DOB: 09/05/1996 Gold DOB: 30/01/1995 Hometown: Devon: Plymouth Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: North Yorkshire: Previous Games attended: Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Harrogate Rio 2016, London 2012, Instagram: @graceeereid Rio 2016 1 1 1 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Beijing 2008 Link for bio Twitter: @JackLaugher Silver Twitter: @TomDaley1994 Instagram: @jacklaugher Instagram: @tomdaley Link for bio Link for bio 2 1 1 ALL-TIME TOTAL 1 3 6 Bronze Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix Matty Lee Event: 10m platform Event: 3m synchro Event: 10m synchro DOB: 19/10/1996 DOB:11/09/2004 DOB: 05/03/1998 Hometown: Cambridgeshire: Hometown: London: Southwark Hometown: West Yorkshire: Leeds Cambridge Instagram: @andreassirieix04 Twitter: @mattydiver Previous Games attended: Link for bio Instagram: @mattydiver Rio 2016 Twitter: @danngoodfellow Link for bio Instagram: @dannielgoodfellow Link for bio 1

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Katherine Torrance Noah Williams Event: 3m synchro Event: 10m platform DOB: 10/10/1998 DOB: 15/05/ 2000 Hometown: London: Croydon Hometown: London: Hackney Twitter: @Kat_Torrance Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @Katt_Torrance Instagram: @noah_w9

Lois Toulson Event: 10m platform, synchro DOB: 26/09/1999 Hometown: West Yorkshire: Huddersfield Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @LoisToulson Instagram: @lois_toulson

Staff Bios

Alexey Evangulov David Gerty Jennifer Leeming Adam Smallwood Team Leader Managing Victory Officer Coach Coach

Lin Chen Marc Holdsworth Ruth Norfolk Adam Sotheran Coach Coach Senior Managing Victory Officer Team Manager

Jane Figueiredo David Jenkins Alexandre Rochas Gareth Ziyambi Coach Coach Coach Physio

66 DIVING | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | EQUESTRIAN 67 Eventing is a combination of dressage, jumping and cross-country tests which are carried out over Equestrian four consecutive days. The aim for the rider is to Introduction achieve the lowest number of penalties in all three disciplines. A staple in the Olympic programme for over a Team GB have won a total of 19 Olympic eventing century, equestrian events uniquely involve animals medals, including silver in the team event at London while also offering men and women the chance 2012. In Tokyo, current eventing world number one to compete against each other on equal terms. Oliver Townend will be looking to earn GB’s first Having made its Games debut in 1900 – when eventing gold medal since Leslie Law topped the equestrian competition comprised a heady mix of ranks in the individual event at Athens 2004. jumping, high jump, long jump, hacks and hunter combined and mail coach – the current format Jumping, or showjumping, takes place in an arena was first put in place in Stockholm 12 years later and around a course of approximately 15 fences. and has remained ever since. Faults are awarded for knocked fences or finishing outside a time limit, with the winner the rider and Olympic equestrian is split into three disciplines horse with the fewest faults – and the quicker time – dressage, eventing and jumping – all of which being the next deciding factor if competitors are feature individual and team medal opportunities. tied on the number of faults. Team GB has won 35 Olympic equestrian medals in total, including 11 golds, and sit fifth in the overall Nick Skelton famously won individual jumping gold medal table. at his seventh Games in Rio, at the age of 58. Five years on Ben Maher – who claimed team gold In dressage, the horse’s three basic paces of walk, alongside Skelton, Scott Brash and Peter Charles at trot and canter are utilised to produce movements London 2012 – will once again be gunning for glory. including circles, serpentines, piaffe, passage and pirouettes, that are judged on harmony, precision Most of the Tokyo 2020 equestrian action will be and suppleness. The Freestyle competition for held at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park, the same individual medals is set to music with athletes setting site as the 1964 Games, with the three disciplines their own routine. spread across the entirety of the Games calendar.

Dressage competition gets underway a day after Team GB won its first medals in the discipline at the Opening Ceremony, before eventing begins six London 2012, with Charlotte Dujardin and Laura days later and jumping rounds off the event, with Bechtolsheimer picking up gold and bronze in the the team final proceeding on the penultimate day individual event respectively, while the duo also of the Games. earned team gold alongside Carl Hester. Dujardin backed up that success on Valegro in Rio four years later with another individual gold and team silver and will be bidding to add to her glittering medal tally with new equine partner Gio in Japan.

68 EQUESTRIAN | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | EQUESTRIAN 69 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

DRESSAGE JUMPING

24 July 17.00-22.15 M W Grand Prix Team & 03 Aug 19.00-22.45 M W Individual Qualifier

Individual Day 1 04 Aug 19.00-21.40 M W ME ----Individual Final

25 July 17.00-22.15 M W Grand Prix Team & 06 Aug 19.00-22.05 M W Team Qualifier Individual Day 2

07 Aug 19.00-21.30 M W ME ----Team Final

27 July 17.00-22.40 M W ME ----Team Grand Prix Special

28 July 17.00-22.40 M W ME ----Individual Grand Prix Freestyle

EVENTING

30 July 8.30-11.00 M W Dressage Team & Individual Day

1 - Session 1 Team GB at the Olympic Games 17.30-20.10 M W Dressage Team & Individual Day 1 - Session 2

31 July 8.30-11.00 M W Dressage Team & Individual Day

2 - Session 3 2 Beijing 2008 01 Aug 7.45-11.10 M W Cross County Team &

Individual

02 Aug 17.00-22.25 M W ME ----Jumping Team Final & Individual 3 1 1 London 2012 Qualifier

Gold M W ME ----Jumping Individual Final

Rio 2016 2 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 11 11 13 Bronze

70 EQUESTRIAN | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | EQUESTRIAN 71 Athlete Bios Dressage: Eventing : Jumping: Reserves:

Charlotte Dujardin Laura Collett Scott Brash Gareth Hughes

DOB: 13/07/1985 DOB: 31/08/1989 DOB: 23/11/1985 DOB: 01/05/1971 Hometown: London: Enfield Hometown: Gloucestershire: Salperton Hometown: Scotland: Peebles Hometown: Warwickshire: Southam Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @CollettEventing Previous Games attended: London Twitter: @HughesDressage London 2012 Instagram: @laura_collett 2012 Instagram: @hughesdressage1 Twitter: @CSJDujardin Link for bio Twitter: @scott_brash Link for bio Instagram: @charlotte_dujardincbe Instagram: @scott.brash Link for bio Link for bio

3 1 1

Charlotte Fry Tom McEwen Ben Maher Ros Canter

DOB: 11/02/1996 DOB: 10/05/1991 DOB: 30/01/1983 DOB: 13/01/1986 Hometown: North Yorkshire: Hometown: Gloucestershire: Hometown: Essex: Elsenham Hometown: Lincolnshire: Hallington Scarborough Minchinhampton Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @cantereventing Twitter: @lottiefryy Twitter: @TomMcEwen1 London 2012, Beijing 2008 Instagram: @ros_canter_eventing Instagram: @lottie_fry Instagram: @tommceweneventing Twitter: @BenMaher1 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @benmaherofficial Link for bio

1 Carl Hester Oliver Townend Holly Smith Harry Charles

DOB: 29/06/1967 DOB: 15/11/1982 Hometown: Channel Islands: Sark Hometown: West Yorkshire: Huddersfield DOB: 14/03/1989 DOB: 15/07/1999 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @Oliver_Townend Hometown: Leicestershire: Wymeswold Hometown: Hampshire: Alton London 2012, Athens 2004, Sydney 2000, Instagram: @olivertownendofficial Twitter: @HollyGillott_ Twitter: @HarryCharlesSJ Barcelona 1992 Link for bio Instagram: @hollysmithhsj Instagram: @harrycharles_1 Twitter: @HesterDressage Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @carlhestermbe Link for bio

1 1

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Staff Bios

Dickie Waygood Andre Buthe Harriet Fettes Rebecca Hughes Amy Phillips Sophie Thomas Ian Woodhead Team Leader Dressage Team Vet Horse Support Personnel Horse Support Personnel Groom Operations Lead Eventing Coach

Henriette Andersen Steven Caley Judy Firmston Williams Tilly Hughes Keith Scott Anne van Olst Winnie Murphy Horse Support Personnel Groom Horse Support Personnel Groom Horse Support Personnel Horse Support Personnel Media Officer

Chris Bartle Ian Cast Francesca Gorni Di Lampard Lucy Scudamore Gert Jan van Olst Eventing Coach Dressage Coach Groom Jumping Chef d’Equipe Groom Horse Support Personnel

Karen Bartlett Robrecht Cnockaert Rachel Greetham Thomas March Steph Sharples Alex van Tuyll Groom Jumping Team Vet Equine Physiotherapist Horse Support Personnel Groom Operations Support

Andrew Bowyer Alan Davies Caroline Griffith Jess McKie Karyn Shuter Sarah Verney Farrier Groom Dressage Chef d’Equipe Groom Horse Support Personnel Horse Support Personnel Liaison

Liz Brown Greig Elliott Renai Hart Jennie Owst Vicky Spalding Ashleigh Wallace Eventing Team Vet Farrier Horse Support Personnel Physio Equine Physiotherapist Physio

74 EQUESTRIAN | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | FENCING 75 Fencing Introduction

One of just five sports to have featured at every Olympic Games, fencing will again play an important role at Tokyo 2020. The sport is split into three disciplines, the foil, the epée and the sabre, with the three different swords all scored differently.

The foil is a light thrusting weapon, with fighters world number one in the first round. targeting the torso, while the epée is a heavier weapon where fighters can target the entire body Mepstead’s performances during the Olympic and double touches are allowed. qualification period allowed him to finish as the Finally, the sabre is a light cutting and thrusting number one athlete in the European Qualification weapon, with the target area almost everything Zone to book his spot. His journey has been a above the waist except the back of the head and remarkable one, moving to New York to work with the hands. an Olympic medal-winning coach after British Fencing lost funding in 2017. His performances since and France have been the traditional then, notably the world silver medal, allowed British superpowers of the sport, with 49 and 42 gold Fencing to secure National Lottery funding to build medals respectively. Curiously, while fencing has his support team in his bid to challenge for a medal its roots in the Mediterranean, it was in London that in Tokyo. it developed into a sport, under the trained eye of Domenico Angelo who established a fencing Mepstead will compete in the individual foil, academy in the second half of the 18th century. one of 12 gold medals available in Tokyo in the event which will be held at the Despite that, Team GB have struggled for Olympic in Chiba, the venue that will also host taekwondo medals, with the most recent of the nine won in total and wrestling. If Mepstead were to win gold in coming back in 1964, also in Tokyo, when Henry Tokyo, he would become just the second Brit ever Hoskyns won silver in the individual epée. Now, 57 to achieve the feat, following in the footsteps of years later, Marcus Mepstead will look to put an Gillian Donaldson, née Sheen, who won individual end to that wait for a medal as Team GB’s sole women’s foil gold at Melbourne 1956. fencing representative in Japan. The 31-year-old will head to his second Olympics, having been part of the foil team that finished sixth in Rio.

Since then, Mepstead has established himself as a genuine contender on the world stage, earning a silver medal at the World Championships in 2019 in which he beat three-time world champion and

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Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

24 July 9.00-16.20 M Individual Sabre Round of 64, 32,16 & Quarter-Finals

W Individual Epée Round of 64, 32, 16 & Quarter-Finals

18.00-20.25 M ME Individual Sabre Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

W ME Individual Epée Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

25 July 9.00-16.20 M Individual Epée Round of 64, 32, 16 & Quarter-Finals

W Individual Foil Round of 64, 32, 16 & Quarter-Finals

18.00-20.25 M ME Individual Epée Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

W ME Individual Foil Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

26 July 9.00-16.20 M Individual Foil Round of 64, 32, 16 & Quarter-Finals

W Individual Sabre Round of 64, 32, 16 & Quarter-Finals

18.00-20.25 M ME Individual Foil Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

Team GB at the Olympic Games W ME Individual Sabre Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

27 July 10.00-15.20 W Team Epée Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Classification 5-8 & Semi-Finals

18.30-20.40 W ME ITeam Epée Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts Melbourne 1956 1 28 July 10.00-15.20 M Team Sabre Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Classification 5-8 & Semi-Finals 18.30-20.40 M ME Team Sabre Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

29 July 10.00-15.20 W Team Foil Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Classification 5-8 & Semi-Finals 1 Rome 1960 18.30-20.40 W ME TTeam Foil Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts Gold 30 July 10.00-15.20 M Team Epée Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Classification 5-8 & Semi-Finals Tokyo 1964 1 18.30-20.40 M ME Team Epée Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts Silver 31 July 10.00-15.20 W Team Sabre Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Classification 5-8 & Semi-Finals

18.30-20.40 W ME Team Sabre Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts ALL-TIME TOTAL 1 8 Bronze 01 Aug 10.00-15.20 M Team Foil Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Classification 5-8 & Semi-Finals

18.30-20.40 M ME Team Foil Bronze & Gold Medal Bouts

78 FENCING | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | FENCING 79 FOOTBALL

Athlete Bios

Marcus Mepstead Event: Foil

DOB: 11/05/1990 Hometown: London: Hampstead Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @MarcusMepstead Instagram: @marcusmepstead Link for bio

Staff Bios

Johnny Davis Tom Turner Team Leader Media Officer

Maria Goriup Physio

Dan Kellner Coach

80 FENCING | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | FOOTBALL 81 it wasn’t meant to be for ’s Olympic debutants, who fell 2-0 to . With no teams Football sent to Rio in 2016, ’s women’s side will Introduction enter Tokyo 2020 with plenty of unfinished business. Houghton, the 33-year-old England and Manchester You’re more likely to find a pundit than a player at City captain, is one of just four returning players White City these days but in 1908, the BBC’s west from 2012, alongside , and Kim London plot was the site of Team GB’s first true Little, while 20-year-old Manchester City forward Olympic footballing triumph. will be the youngest member of the While the Olympic football tournament was squad. previously contested by clubs – and Great Britain’s representative Upton Park FC had walked away PFA Players’ 2021 Player of the Year is with gold at Paris 1900 – London 1908 marked the expected to do serious damage up front, while her debut of national teams. teammate will become the first Welsh

woman to play Olympic football. A squad led by Tottenham Hotspur’s Vivian Three groups of four teams will contest the pool Woodward went on to clinch Team GB’s first gold stage, with the top two sides in each earning a medal at White City before repeating the same feat spot in the knockout quarter-finals. An additional four years later in Stockholm. two places will be awarded to the top-ranked third- placed teams. The Olympic football podium has eluded Great British Olympic squads ever since partly because, Reigning champions Germany have not qualified as the professional game grew at home, it to defend their gold but if Team GB want a shot, became more challenging for Team GB to field a they’ll have to emerge from Group E – with games competitive all-amateur side to meet the Games’ against Chile (21 July), hosts Japan (24 July) and a requirements. revenge mission against 2012 conquerors Canada, led by former England assistant coach Bev Professional male players were allowed to compete Priestman, on July 27. as of the 1984 LA Games, though by 1992 only under-23s were eligible before a three-player exception was introduced for Atlanta 1996, also the year of the first women’s competition. After almost 40 years without Olympic football representation, Team GB fielded both a men’s and a women’s team at the home Games of London 2012 as both sides fell at last-eight stage.

Stuart Pearce’s men, skippered by , finished top of group A to reach the quarter-finals only to fall to on penalties. Meanwhile, was the group stage hero for the women, scoring in each match, but

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

STADIUM: STADIUM: SAITAMA STADIUM

21 July 16.30-21.30 W Group E: Great Britain v Chile 27 July 17.00-22.00 W Group F: Brazil v Zambia

W Group E: Japan v Canada STADIUM: INTERNATIONAL STADIUM YOKOHAMA

STADIUM: MIYAGI STADIUM 27 July 20.30-22.30 W New Zealand v

21 July 17.00-22.00 W Group F: China v Brazil STADIUM: MIYAGI STADIUM W Group F: Zambia v

30 July 17.00-22.00 W Quarter-Final

STADIUM: TOKYO STADIUM STADIUM: IBARAKI KASHIMA STADIUM 21 July 17.00-22.00 W Group G: v United States 30 July 18.00-21.00 W Quarter-Final W Group G: v New Zealand STADIUM: SAITAMA STADIUM STADIUM: SAPPORO DOME 30 July 19.00-22.00 W Quarter-Final

Team GB at the Olympic Games 24 July 16.30-21.30 W Group E: Chile v Canada STADIUM: INTERNATIONAL STADIUM YOKOHAMA W Group E: Japan v Great Britain

30 July 20.00-23.00 W Quarter-Final

STADIUM: MIYAGI STADIUM STADIUM: IBARAKI KASHIMA STADIUM 1 24 July 17.00-22.00 W Group F: China v Zambia Paris 1900 02 Aug 17.00-20.00 W Semi-Final

W Group F: Netherlands v Brazil STADIUM: INTERNATIONAL STADIUM : SAITAMA STADIUM 02 Aug 20.00-23.00 W Semi-Final London 1908 1 24 July 17.30-22.30 W Group G: Sweden v Australia

STADIUM: IBARAKI KASHIMA STADIUM Gold W Group G: New Zealand v

United States 05 Aug 17.00-20.00 W ME Bronze Medal Match Stockholm 1912 1 Silver STADIUM: SAPPORO DOME STADIUM:

27 July 17.00-22.00 W Group G: New Zealand v Sweden 06 Aug 11.00-14.00 W ME Gold Medal Match

ALL-TIME TOTAL 3 Bronze W Group E: Chile v Japan

STADIUM: MIYAGI STADIUM

27 July 17.00-22.00 W Group G: United States v Australia

W Group E: Canada v Great Britain

84 FOOTBALL | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | FOOTBALL 85 Athlete Bios

Carly Telford Stanway Ella Toone

DOB: 07/07/1987 DOB: 21/08/1993 DOB: 03/01/1999 DOB: 02/09/1999 Hometown: Tyne and Wear: Hometown: Derbyshire: Hometown: Cumbria: Barrow-in-Furness Hometown: Greater Manchester: Jesmond Chesterfield Twitter: @stanwaygeorgia Tyldesley Twitter: @carlytelford1 Twitter: @Mdawg1bright Instagram: @stanwaygeorgia Twitter: @ellatoone99 Instagram: @carlytelford1 Instagram: @mbrighty04 Link for bio Instagram: @ellatoone Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Rachel Daly Lauren Hemp

DOB: 06/12/1991 DOB: 07/08/2000 DOB: 28/10/1991 DOB: 08/04/1997 Hometown: North Yorkshire: Hometown: Norfolk: North Walsham Hometown: Northumberland: Hometown: Greater Manchester: Harrogate Twitter: @lauren__hemp Berwick-Upon-Tweed Rochdale Twitter: @RachelDaly3 Instagram: @lauren-hemp Twitter: @LucyBronze Twitter: @keira_walsh Instagram: @racheldaly3 Link for bio Instagram: @lucybronze Instagram: @keirawalsh Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Fran Kirby Steph Houghton Ellen White

DOB: 29/06/1993 DOB: 29/06/1990 DOB: 23/04/1988 DOB: 09/05/1989 Hometown: Berkshire: Reading Hometown: Scotland: Mintlaw Hometown: Durham: Durham Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Twitter: @frankirby Instagram: @kimlittle1990 Previous Games attended: Aylesbury Instagram: @frankirby Link for bio London 2012 Previous Games attended: Link for bio Twitter: @stephhoughton2 London 2012 Instagram: @stephhoughton2 Twitter: @ellsbells89 Link for bio Instagram: @ellsbells89 Link for bio

Ellie Roebuck Jill Scott Sandy MacIver

DOB: 02/02/1987 DOB: 23/09/1999 DOB: 18/06/1998 DOB: 20/06/1995 Hometown: Tyne and Wear: Hometown: South Yorkshire: Hometown: Cheshire: Winsford- Hometown: Scotland: Dunfermline Sunderland Sheffield Twitter: @SandyMacIver_ Twitter: @itscarolineweir, Previous Games attended: Twitter: @ellieroebuck_ Instagram: @sandy_maciver Instagram: @carolineweir95 London 2012 Instagram: @ellieroebuck_ Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @JillScottJS8 Instagram: @jillscottjs8 Link for bio

Demi Stokes Niamh Charles Sophie Ingle

DOB: 12/12/1991 DOB: 21/06/1999 DOB: 02/09/1991 Hometown: Tyne and Wear: Hometown: Merseyside: Wirral Hometown: Wales: Barry South Shields Twitter: @niamhcharles7 Twitter: @sophieingle01 Twitter: @demistokes Instagram: @niamhcharles17 Instagram: @Ingle08 Instagram: @demistokes Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Nikita Parris Lotte Wubben-Moy

DOB: 10/03/1994 DOB: 29/03/1997 DOB: 11/01/1999 Hometown: Merseyside: Toxteth, Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Milton Hometown: London: Bow Liverpool Keynes Twitter: @lottewubbenmoy Twitter: @lilkeetsl Twitter: @leahcwilliamson Instagram: @lottewubbenmoy Instagram: @nikitaparris17 Instagram: @leahwilliamsonn Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

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Staff Bios

David Faulkner Sue Harrison Hege Riise Emily Whatling Team Leader

Danny Alcock Laura Hartless Dawn Scott Rhian Wilkinson

Ros Cooke Richard Jones Alicia Tang

Josh Dixon Ritan Mehta Wendy Taylor Media Officer

Kate Green Tom Murray Geraint Twose

88 FOOTBALL | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | GOLF 89 As it will be in Tokyo, 60 men and 60 women took part in Rio, with the remaining 45 spots in each Golf event taken up by the highest-ranked players from Introduction countries without two golfers already qualified and the rules followed the traditional 72-hole stroke play format. High drama, tight margins and a balancing act Justin Rose – who had spent the first week between power and skill – it is something of a of the Olympics as something of a superfan, surprise that a sport that possesses all those facets attending a variety of events and cheering on his had to wait 112 years to make a return to the compatriots – became Team GB’s first-ever golf Olympic Games. First included at Paris in 1900, golf Olympic champion securing gold on the final hole, also featured at the St Louis Games four years later, eventually finishing two shots ahead of Sweden’s but it wasn’t until Rio 2016 that it would next make Henrik Stenson. an appearance. Rose also recorded the first hole-in-one seen at Golf has it is official origins in Britain, more a Games but he wasn’t the maiden Olympic specifically in the Scottish city of St Andrews, where medallist in golf for Team GB as Walter Rutherford the rules were codified all the way back in 1754 but and David Robertson took silver and bronze centuries earlier the Dutch are believed to have respectively in 1900. played a similar sport called ‘colf’. Hoping to continue Team GB’s run of winning a And while it is a simple concept of hitting the ball in medal in golf at every Games they have competed the hole, tricky courses and weather conditions can in will be four players making their Olympic debut. cause havoc to a golfer’s game and ego alike. Prior North Yorkshire’s Jodi Ewart Shadoff – whose best to Rio, only five nations had ever competed in golf performance at a major was second at the 2017 at the Olympics. In 1900, athletes from Great Britain, Women’s British Open – heads into her first Games France, Greece and the USA competed in the and will be joined in the women’s event by Mel men’s and women’s individual categories. Reid, who won her maiden LPGA Tour event in October 2020. On the men’s side, Tommy Fleetwood At the St Louis Games, it was an all-North American will be making his first Olympic appearance but affair as the women’s event was replaced with a has previously tasted success as part of Europe’s men’s team competition. The only Canadian in the 2018 Ryder Cup team and will be joined Paul Casey competition, George Lyon, came out on top in the – the 44-year-old who has 21 professional wins in a individual event, with the Western Golf Association career spanning more than 20 years. taking gold for the States in the team event. In Rio, the women’s event was again included as the team competition was dropped and this time there was a more even split of countries with selection primarily based on the top 15 of the world rankings for each gender.

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

29 July 7.30-16.00 M Round 1

30 July 7.30-16.00 M Round 2

31 July 7.30-16.00 M Round 3

01 Aug 7.30-16.30 M ME-----Round 4

04 Aug 7.30-16.00 W Round 1

05 Aug 7.30-16.00 W Round 2

06 Aug 7.30-16.00 W Round 3

07 Aug 7.30-16.00 W ME-----Round 4

Team GB at the Olympic Games

Paris 1900 1 1

Rio 2016 1 Gold

ALL-TIME TOTAL 1 1 1 Silver

Bronze

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Athlete Bios

Paul Casey Tommy Fleetwood

DOB: 21 July 1977 DOB: 19 January 1991 Hometown: Surrey: Weybridge Hometown: Merseyside: Southport Twitter: @Paul_Casey Twitter: @TommyFleetwood1 Instagram: @paul_caseygolf Instagram: @officialtommyfleetwood Link for bio Link for bio

Jodi Ewart Shadoff Mel Reid

DOB: 07/01/1988 DOB: 19 September 1987 Hometown: North Yorkshire: Middleham Hometown: Derbyshire: Derby Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @melreidgolf Twitter: @Jodi_Ewart Instagram: @melreidgolf Instagram: @jodi_ewart Link for bio Link for bio

Staff Bios

Nigel Edwards Juan Carlos Ian Finnis Nigel Tilley Team Leader Caddy Caddy Physio

Clare Bodel Ryan Desveaux John McLaren Harry Tyrrell Media Officer Caddy Caddy Caddy

94 GOLF | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | GYMNASTICS 95 while ’s bronze on home in London, in her final competitive outing was Gymnastics one of the Games’ most heart-warming moments. Introduction But Team GB’s most successful gymnast of all-time is Max Whitlock who has five Olympic medals to Split into three disciplines – artistic, rhythmic his name – including double gold on the floor and trampoline – gymnastics is one of the most and pommel from Rio, making him the only British remarkable spectacles at every Olympic Games, Olympic champion gymnast in history. Whitlock will as athletes perform acrobatic manoeuvres that be in Tokyo for his third Games, looking to add to seemingly defy both gravity and physics as a his medal tally, but the rest of the artistic gymnastics whole. It is one of the few sports to have featured at squad are all Olympic debutants. every edition of the Games since Athens 1896 with artistic gymnastics being an ever-present, rhythmic World parallel bars champion Joe Fraser, British all- events added in 1984 and a Sydney around champion James Hall and 2021 European 2000 addition. medallist Giarnni Regini-Moran are the other male gymnasts, while exciting twin-sister duo Jennifer Team GB won’t be competing in rhythmic Gadirova and Jessica Gadirova, along with 2021 gymnastics – where athletes perform expressive European uneven bars bronze medallist Amelie and acrobatic moves with the aid of handheld Morgan and 2019 European beam champion Alice apparatus such as a hoop, ball or ribbon – in Kinsella, make up the female quartet. Japan but have talented squads selected for the other two disciplines. Artistic gymnastics is what Whitlock isn’t the only Olympic medallist in Team most people think of when the sport of gymnastics GB’s wider gymnastics squad however, as Rio 2016 is mentioned, as athletes perform short routines on silver medallist Bryony Page is back for a second a variety of apparatus with judges evaluating the Games in the trampolining. difficulty and accuracy of their display. Page made history five years ago when she At Tokyo, male gymnasts will compete in six medal became the first British trampolinist to win an events (floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel Olympic medal, as her brilliant routine in the final bars and horizontal bar) while women contest four scored 56.040 to earn silver. (vault, uneven bars, beam and floor) with both also competing for individual all-around and team She’ll be joined by debutant Laura Gallagher for a titles. Walter Tysall was Team GB’s first-ever Olympic sport that sees athletes spring to heights of up to 8m gymnastics medallist after taking all-around silver as they perform a series of short routines containing at London 1908 but it was exactly 100 years until a variety of twists, bounces and somersaults – with another British gymnast won an individual medal. judges delivering marks for difficulty, execution, flight time and horizontal displacement. That came from Louis Smith on the pommel horse at Beijing 2008 and kick-started a veritable deluge of medals. Smith won pommel silvers at both London 2012 and Rio 2016, Nile Wilson took horizontal bar bronze in Rio as did likewise on the floor,

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS 02 Aug 17.00-19.40 M ME-----Rings Final

24 July 10.00-22.00 M Qualification M ME-----Vault Final

25 July 10.00-22.00 W Qualification W ME-----Floor Final

26 July 19.00-22.10 M ME-----Team Final 03 Aug 17.00-19.25 M ME-----Parallel Bars Final

M ME-----Horizontal Bar Final 27 July 19.45-22.10 W ME-----Team Final W ME----- Final

M ME-----All-Around Final 28 July 19.15-22.10 -----

29 July 19.50-22.05 W ME-----All-Around Final

01 Aug 17.00-20.10 M ME-----Floor Final ----- TRAMPOLINING M ME-----Pommel Horse Final 30 July 13.00-15.30 M ME-----Women’s Qualification & Final W ME-----Vault Final

W ME-----Uneven Bars Final 31 July 13.00-15.30 W ME -----Men’s Qualification & Final Team GB at the Olympic Games Athlete Bios Artistic Gymnastics: 1 Beijing 2008 Jennifer Gadirova Giarnni Regini-Moran

DOB: 03/10/2004 DOB: 31/05/2003 DOB: 02/08/1998 Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Hometown: Berkshire: Slough Hometown: Kent: Gravesend Aylesbury from Instagram: @ameliemorganx Twitter: @GiarnniM London 2012 1 3 Instagram: @jennifergadirova Link for bio Instagram: Link for bio @giarnni_regini_moran Gold Link for bio

Jessica Gadirova Joe Fraser Max Whitlock Rio 2016 2 2 3 Silver DOB: 03/10/2004 DOB: 6/12/1998 DOB: 13/01/1993 Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Hometown: West Midlands: Hometown: Hertfordshire: Aylesbury from Dublin Birmingham Hemel Hempstead Twitter: JessicaGadirova Twitter: @Joefrasergb Previous Games attended: 2 4 9 Instagram: @jessica_gadirova Instagram: @joefraser1 Rio 2016, London 2012 ALL-TIME TOTAL Bronze Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @maxwhitlock1

2 3 Instagram: @maxwhitlock Link for bio James Hall

DOB: 13/03/2001 DOB: 06/10/1995 Hometown: Warwickshire: Sutton Hometown: Kent: Maidstone Coldfield Twitter: @_JamesrHall Twitter: @AliceKinsella16 Instagram: @_jamesrhall Instagram: @AliceKinsella17 Link for bio Link for bio

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Trampolining :

Bryony Page Laura Gallagher

DOB: 10/12/1990 DOB: 26/03/1989 Hometown: Cheshire: Crewe Hometown: Somerset: Previous Games attended: Westonzoyland Rio 2016 Twitter: @LGallagherTra Twitter: @BryonyPage1 Instagram: @lauragallagher26 Instagram: @bryony_page Link for bio Link for bio

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Staff Bios

Artistic Gymnastics Trampoline

James Thomas David Kenwright Chris Tomlinson Gary Smith Team Leader Lead WAG Coach Chief Medical Officer Trampoline Coach

Jonny Bucke Michelle Flemings Claire Williams Tracy Whittaker-Smith Physio coach Physio Lead Trampoline Coach

Barry Collie Jason Laird Lee Woolls Lead MAG Performance Analyst Coach MAG Coach

Paul Hall Tim Peake Wendy Taylor MAG Coach Media Officer Media Officer

Scott Hann Joshua Richardson Geraint Twose MAG Coach WAG Coach

100 GYMNASTICS | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | HOCKEY 101 Meanwhile, Team GB’s women’s squad go to Tokyo as defending champions having defeated the Hockey Netherlands in a shootout in Rio to claim gold in Introduction one of the most iconic moments in British sporting history. It’s not often one country wins all three medals That gold is one of three medals won by Team GB’s in a team sport event but when hockey made its women, with two bronzes coming in 1992 and 2012. debut at London 1908, Team GB did just that. Back In Tokyo, they have the chance to do what no British then, Great Britain was divided into four teams from squad have done before and win a hockey medal each of the home nations, with England defeating at a third consecutive Games. A number of the Rio Ireland in the final 8-1, while the Scottish and Welsh gold medal heroes are part of the squad in Tokyo teams each took home a bronze, with the medals including – back in goal after taking subsequently being credited to Team GB. a sabbatical from the sport – , , Giselle Ansley, Shona McCallin and While Team GB have long enjoyed success at . hockey, the sport’s origins date much further back than the first London Olympics. Hockey is in fact They will be captained by Hollie Pearne-Webb, the oldest known ball and stick game, with records scorer of the decisive penalty five years ago, dating all the way back to 2000 BC.Nowadays, but there are also plenty of debutants, including hockey is played by teams of 11 on artificial turf 34-year-old Leah Wilkinson who is the most capped but, up until the Montreal Olympics in 1976, it was Welsh sportsperson of all time. played on grass. The men will be captained by Adam Dixon, who Hockey has featured at every Games since 1928 was part of the team in Rio five years ago, while with the women’s competition being added from Sam Ward will also be at a second Games after 1980 onwards and Team GB have climbed the fighting back from having his eye socket shattered podium on plenty of occasions. and being left blind in one eye when a hockey ball Both the men’s and women’s team are the fourth- hit him in the face. most successful countries in their event, with the men claiming three gold medals – the most recent Both the men’s and women’s competitions see coming in 1988 when the Sean Kerly-inspired squad team split into two pools of six, with the top four triumphed in Seoul. from each advancing to the quarter-finals, from where it’s a straight knockout competition. Team The men have also earned two silvers and four GB’s women will face Germany, , Ireland, bronzes, three of which came in 1908, but are yet Netherlands and South Africa in the group stage, to win a medal this century having narrowly missed while the men have , Canada, Germany, out in 2012, losing to Australia in the bronze Netherlands and South Africa in their pool. medal match.

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time/Venue Event Date Time/Venue Event

24 09.30-13.15 North Pitch M Pool A: Japan v Australia 29 09.30-13.15 North Pitch W Pool A: India vs Argentina July M Pool B: Netherlands v Belgium July W Pool B: South Africa vs Germany

10.00-13.45 South Pitch M Pool A: New Zealand v India 10.00-13.45 South Pitch M Pool B: Belgium vs Canada

M Pool A: Argentina v Spain M Pool B: Netherlands vs Great Britain

18.30-22.15 North Pitch M Pool B: Great Britain v South Africa 18.30-22.15 North Pitch M Pool B: Spain vs China

W Pool A: Netherlands v India W Pool B: Japan vs Argentina

19.00-22.45 South Pitch M Pool B: Canada v Germany 19.00-22.45 South Pitch W Pool A: Great Britain vs Netherlands

W Pool A: Ireland v South Africa W Pool B: New Zealand vs Australia

25 09.30-13.15 North Pitch W Pool A: Great Britain v Germany 30 09.30-13.15 North Pitch W Pool A: South Africa vs Germany July July W Pool B: Japan vs China W Pool A: Ireland vs India

10.00-13.45 South Pitch W Pool B: Australia vs Spain 10.00-13.45 South Pitch M Pool A: Australia vs Spain

W Pool B: New Zealand vs Argentina M Pool B: Canada vs South Africa

18.30-22.15 North Pitch M Pool A: India vs Australia 18.30-22.15 North Pitch M Pool A: Japan vs India

M Pool A: Spain vs New Zealand M Pool B: Germany vs Netherlands

19.00-22.45 South Pitch M Pool A: Japan vs Argentina 19.00-22.45 South Pitch M Pool A: Argentina vs New Zealand

M Pool B: South Africa vs Netherlands M Pool B: Belgium vs Great Britain

26 09.30-13.15 North Pitch M Pool B: Germany vs Belgium July 31 09.30-13.15 North Pitch W Pool B: China vs New Zealand Team GB at the Olympic Games M Pool B: Great Britain vs Canada July W Pool B: Argentina vs Australia 10.00-13.45 South Pitch W Pool A: Netherlands vs Ireland 10.00-13.45 South Pitch W Pool B: Japan vs Spain W Pool B: Australia vs China W Pool A: India vs South Africa 18.30-22.15 North Pitch W Pool A: South Africa vs Great Britain 18.30-22.15 North Pitch W Pool A: Germany vs Netherlands W Pool B: Japan vs New Zealand W Pool A: Ireland vs Great Britain 19.00-22.45 South Pitch W Pool B: Argentina vs Spain

W Pool A: Germany vs India Barcelona 1992 1 01 09.30-13.45 North Pitch M Quarter-Finals (2 matches) Aug 18.30-22.45 North Pitch M Quarter-Finals (2 matches) 27 09.30-13.15 North Pitch M Pool A: Argentina vs Australia

July M Pool A: Japan vs New Zealand 02 09.30-13.45 North Pitch W Quarter-Finals (2 matches) 10.00-13.45 South Pitch M Pool A: India vs Spain Aug 18.30-22.45 North Pitch W Quarter-Finals (2 matches) M Pool B: Germany vs Great Britain 1 10.30-12.15 North Pitch M Semi-Final 1 London 2012 18.30-22.15 North Pitch M Pool B: Belgium vs South Africa 03 Aug M M Pool B: Netherlands vs Canada 19.00-20.45 North Pitch Semi-Final 2 Gold 04 10.30-12.15 North Pitch W Semi-Final 1 09.30-13.15 North Pitch M Pool A: Netherlands vs South Africa 28 Aug 19.00-20.45 North Pitch W Semi-Final 2 July Rio 2016 1 M Pool B: New Zealand vs Spain 10.00-13.45 South Pitch W Pool A: Great Britain vs India 05 10.30-12.15 North Pitch M Bronze Medal Match Silver Aug W Pool A: Germany vs Ireland 19.00-21.10 North Pitch M Gold Medal Match

18.30-22.15 North Pitch W Pool B: Japan vs Australia 06 10.30-12.15 North Pitch W Bronze Medal Match M Pool A: Japan vs Spain Aug 19.00-21.10 North Pitch W Gold Medal Match ALL-TIME TOTAL 4 2 6 Bronze 19.00-22.45 South Pitch W Pool B: Argentina vs China M Pool A: Australia vs New Zealand

104 HOCKEY | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | HOCKEY 105 Athlete Bios: Women Athlete Bios: Men

Giselle Ansley Shona McCallin Anna Toman David Ames Tom Sorsby DOB: 31/03/1992 DOB: 18/05/1992 DOB: 29/04/1993 DOB: 25/06/1989 DOB: 03/09/1990 DOB: 28/10/1996 Hometown: Devon: Kingsbridge Hometown: Nottinghamshire: Hometown: Derbyshire: Duffield Hometown: Northern Ireland: Hometown: West Midlands: Hometown: South Yorkshire: Previous Games attended: Newark-on-Trent Previous Games attended: Birmingham Sheffield Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @c_griffiths12 Twitter: @tomsorsby Twitter: @giselleansley Twitter: @SMcCallin Twitter: @anna_toman Twitter: @DavidAmes5 Instagram: @chris_griff Instagram: @tomsorsby_ Instagram: @giselleansley Instagram: @shonamccallin24 Instagram: @annaftoman Instagram: @davidames5 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

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Grace Balsdon Lily Owsley Susannah Townsend Ollie Payne Zach Wallace

DOB: 13/04/1993 DOB: 10/12/1994 DOB: 28/07/1989 DOB: 12/11/1993 DOB: 06/04/1999 DOB: 29/09/1999 Hometown: Kent: Canterbury Hometown: Bristol: Bristol Hometown: London: Blackheath Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Hometown: Devon: Totnes Hometown: London: Kingston Twitter: @Balsdon_Grace Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 High Wycombe Twitter: @OlliePayne0 Twitter: @zachw_9 Instagram: @graceb13 Twitter: @LilyOwsley Twitter: @stownsend7 Twitter: @Liam_Ansell21 Instagram: @olliep99 Instagram: @_Zachwallace Link for bio Instagram: @lilyowsley Instagram: @stownsend7 Instagram: @liam_ansell21 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

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Fiona Crackles Hollie Pearne-Webb Laura Unsworth Brendan Creed Jack Waller DOB: 11/02/2000 DOB: 19/09/1990 DOB: 08/03/1988 DOB: 03/01/1993 DOB: 24/01/1992 DOB: 28/01/1997 Hometown: Cumbria: Kirby Hometown: Derbyshire: Belper Hometown: West Midlands: Sutton Hometown: Warwickshire: Solihull Hometown: Cheshire: Chester Hometown: London: Wimbledon Lonsdale Previous Games attended: Coldfield Twitter: @CreedBrendan Twitter: @proper15 Instagram: @jwal25 Twitter: @fiona_crackles Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: London 2012, Instagram: @brendancreed18 Instagram: @proper15 Link for bio Instagram: @fionacrackles Twitter: @HollieWebb1 Rio 2016 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @holliewebb11 Twitter: @LauraUnsworth4 Link for bio Instagram: @unsy4 1 1 1 Link for bio

Maddie Hinch Izzy Petter Leah Wilkinson Adam Dixon Sam Ward DOB: 08/10/1988 DOB: 27/06/2000 DOB: 03/12/1986 DOB: 11/09/1986 DOB: 14/03/1996 DOB: 24/12/1990 Hometown: West Sussex: West Hometown: Surrey: Cranleigh Hometown: Staffordshire: Hometown: : Nottinghamshire: Hometown: Buckinghamshire: High Hometown: Leicestershire: Chiltington Twitter: @izzypetter Burton-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent Wycombe Leicester Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @izzypetter Twitter: @Leahwilkinson17 Previous Games attended: Twitter: @liam_sanford Previous Games attended: Twitter: @MaddieHinch Link for bio Instagram: @leahwilkinson17 Rio 2016 Instagram: @liam_jordan143 Rio 2016 Twitter: @Samuel_Ward13 Instagram: @MaddieHinch Link for bio Twitter: @AdamDixon16 Link for bio Instagram: @Samuel_Ward13 Link for bio Instagram: @adamdxn Link for bio 1 Link for bio Reserves Reserves

Sarah Jones Ellie Rayer Amy Costello Jacob Draper Rupert Shipperley Alan Forsyth

DOB: 25/06/1990 DOB: 22/11/1996 DOB: 14/01/1998 DOB: 24/07/1998 DOB: 21/11/1992 DOB: 05/04/1992 Hometown: Wales: Cardiff Hometown: Berkshire: Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: Wales: Cwmbran Hometown: Oxfordshire: Oxford Hometown: Scotland: Paisley Twitter: @sarahjones8888 Maidenhead Twitter: @amycostello6 Twitter: @JacobDraper98 Twitter: @rupertscott123 Twitter: @7forsyth Instagram: @sarah.jones8 Twitter: @ellie_rayer Instagram: @amy_costello14 Instagram: @jacob_draper Instagram: @rupert.shipperley Instagram: @7forsyth Link for bio Instagram: ellierayer Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Hannah Martin Sarah Robertson Sarah Evans James Gall Harry Martin DOB: 30/12/1994 DOB: 27/09/1993 DOB: 12/04/1991 DOB: 20/05/1995 DOB: 19/11/1993 DOB: 23/10/1992 Hometown: Suffolk: Ipswich Hometown: Scotland: Melrose Hometown: London: Wandsworth Hometown: Essex: Brentwood Hometown: Northern Ireland: Hometown: Suffolk: Ipswich Twitter: @hkmartin7 Twitter: @SarahRobertson_ Twitter: @sarah_evans_5 Twitter: @jamesgall26 Cookstown Previous Games attended: London Instagram: @hkmartin7 Instagram: sarahrobertson_ Instagram: @sarah_evans_5 Instagram: @jamesgall26 Previous Games attended: 2012, Rio 2016 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Rio 2016 Twitter: @harrymartin_9 Twitter: @iansloan_11 Instagram: @harrymartin9 Instagram: iansloan11 Link for bio Link for bio

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Staff Bios

Ed Barney Carys Edwards Zak Jones Tim Pitt Team Leader Media Officer Men’s Assistant Coach Men’s Sport Psychologist

Emma Batchelor Katie Glynn Danny Kerry David Ralph Women’s Physio Women’s Assistant Coach Men’s Head Coach Women’s Assistant Coach

Sam Beveridge Mark Hager Rebecca Levett Ander Rodoreda Women’s Team Manager Women’s Head Coach Women’s Sport Psychologist Men’s Performance Analyst

Kwan Browne Andy Halliday Amber Luzar Paul Stretch Men’s Head Coach Men’s Team Manager Women’s Performance Analyst Men’s S&C Coach

Tom Drowley Mark Hickman Moiz Moghal Sophie Weaver Women’s S&C Coach Goalkeeper Coach Doctor Men’s Physio

108 HOCKEY | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | JUDO 109 one ippon. If neither judoka can secure an ippon, the referee will award the contest to the participant Judo with the most points. Introduction Women’s judo entered the Olympics as a medal sport in 1992 where Team GB’s Kate Howey Judo’s literal translation may be ‘gentle way’ – a announced herself to the world with a bronze nod to one of the sport’s concepts that gentleness medal as a 19-year-old in Barcelona. controls hardness – but it is an intense combat sport that rewards power, skill and technique. Originally She went on to win silver at Sydney 2000 and was emerging from jiu jitsu in late 19th-century Japan, Team GB’s flagbearer in Athens four years later. judo will return to its spiritual home for its 13th consecutive Games as an Olympic sport. Although just eight countries have won more than Team GB’s 19 Olympic judo medals, a first gold Having been incorporated into the Olympics for the has proven elusive with eight silvers and 11 bronzes first time at Tokyo 1964 – contested in the custom- making up that tally. built Nippon Budokan, to which it will return this summer – judo was absent in 1968 but has been an Now the head coach, Howey will hope her charges ever-present since Munich 1972. can deliver a maiden gold this time around. Nearly 400 judoka will compete across 15 events at Despite Rio 2016 silver medallist Sally Conway Tokyo 2020, with seven weight categories for men deciding to retire in February following the Games’ (ranging from -60kg to +100 kg), seven for women one-year delay, the squad has experience in the (from -48kg to +78kg) and a new mixed team event. form of Ashley McKenzie, who heads to his third Participants wear a uniform known as a gi and Olympics seeking a first podium finish in the the objective in each one-on-one bout is to throw -60kg category. or takedown an opponent to the ground; subdue them with a pinning hold or force them to submit Chelsie Giles is another who could have success for with a joint lock or a choke. Team GB on the mat after winning her first gold medal in in February 2021 – Judoka must bow to their opponent before and defeating the reigning Olympic champion en route after the five-minute contests, while moves can be to the final. broken down into two main categories: throwing techniques and grappling techniques. Bouts Meanwhile 25-year-old Lucy Renshall also tasted end immediately if one judoka is awarded an Grand Slam glory in Antalya a couple of months ippon, which can be achieved by throwing an later and will compete in the -63kg category. opponent to the mat with force so that they land on their back, executing a pin for 25 seconds or if a competitor taps out.

If a technique is successfully executed but without all the requirements for an ippon, a waza-ari (a half- point) is awarded, with two waza-aris equalling

110 JUDO | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | JUDO 111 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

24 11.00- M 60kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W 48kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals

17.00- M 60kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 W 48kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

25 11.00- M 66kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W 52kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals

17.00- M 66kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 W 52kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

26 11.00- M 73kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W 57kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals

17.00- M 73kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 W 57kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

27 11.00- M 81kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W 63kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals

17.00- M 81kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 W 63kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

28 11.00- M 90kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 Team GB at the Olympic Games W 70kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals 17.00- M 90kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 W 70kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

29 11.00- M 100kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W 78kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals

17.00- M 100kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 Sydney 2000 1 W 78kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 30 11.00- M +100kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals July 14.30 W +78kg Elimination Rounds & Quarter-Finals

17.00- M +100kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 W +73kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests London 2012 1 1 31 11.00- M W Mixed Team Elimination Rounds, Quarter-Finals, Repechages & Semi-Finals July 14.30 Gold 17.00- M W +73kg Repechages, Semi-Finals, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests 19.50 Rio 2016 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 8 11 Bronze

112 JUDO | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | JUDO 113 MODERN PENTATHLON

Athlete Bios

Ashley McKenzie Natalie Powell Event: Men’s -60kg Event: Women’s -78kg DOB: 17/07/1989 DOB: 16/10/1990 Hometown: London: Queen’s Park Hometown: Wales: Builth Wells Previous Games attended: London 2012, Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Rio 2016 Twitter: @Nataliep_90 Twitter: @Ashleymckenzi12 Instagram: @nataliep_90 Instagram: @ashleyjudo Link for bio Link for bio

Chelsie Giles Sarah Adlington Event: Women’s -52kg Event: Women’s +78kg DOB: 25/01/1997 DOB: 05/08/1986 Hometown: West Midlands: Coventry Hometown: Scotland: Edingburgh Twitter: @chelsiejudo Twitter: @bigyin78 Instagram: @chelsiegiles Instagram: @bigyin78 Link for bio Link for bio

Lucy Renshall Gemma Howell Event: Women’s -63kg Event: Women’s -70kg DOB: 11/12/1995 DOB: 13/06/1990 Hometown: West Midlands: Walsall Hometown: Staffordshire: Stafford Twitter: @RenshallLucy Previous Games attended: London 2012 Instagram: @renshalllucy Twitter: @Gemh7 Link for bio Instagram: @gemmahowell Link for bio

Staff Bios

Nigel Donohue Chris Barry Katriona Bush David Hart Jamie Johnson Team Leader Performance Analyst Media Officer Physio Coach

Jo Banks John Bramall Andrew Cruickshank Kate Howey Dennis Stewart Doctor Logistics Manager Sports Psychologist Coach Coach

114 JUDO | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | MODERN PENTATHLON 115 The laser-run combined finale provides a fitting showdown for gold medal glory, with athletes Modern running a total distance of 3,200m while taking four shooting stops along the way – staggered starts based on performance in the previous four events Pentathlon mean that the winner is the first person to cross the line. In the women’s event, Rio 2016 Olympian Kate Introduction French and Joanna Muir will be flying the flag for Team GB and both are strong contenders to bring home a medal. World No.2 French has featured When it comes to uniqueness, no Olympic sport regularly on the podium in the World Cups this year, comes close to the modern pentathlon. winning gold in , silver in and gold Inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during again at the final showpiece competition. the ancient Olympics, the multi-discipline sport has been a staple of the Games since its modern She is joined by Muir, who is sixth in the world revamp was introduced in 1912. standings after her own consistent World Cup season which included a superb silver medal in Devised by none other than Pierre de Coubertin, Budapest. The men’s team is equally as strong as the founder of the modern Olympics, modern Jamie Cooke looks to back up his 2018 individual pentathlon requires competitors to master fencing, World Championship gold while Joe Choong will , , shooting and be eyeing the podium after finishing tenth on his cross-country running in the ultimate test of physical Olympic debut at Rio 2016. fitness, coordination, self-discipline and flexibility. While Team GB are yet to win an individual men’s For Tokyo 2020, the modern pentathlon will take Olympic medal, Steph Cook (gold), place at Musashino Forest Sports Plaza and (bronze), Georgie Harland (bronze), Heather Fell , with 36 athletes competing in (silver) and Samantha Murray (silver) have all both the men’s and women’s events. Fencing will delivered memorable podium finishes since the consist of two rounds beginning with the traditional women’s individual event was introduced at round-robin which sees each competitor face Sydney 2000. everyone else once in a one-touch bout.

Competitors are then ranked based on how many victories they earn before the knockout bonus round, where athletes compete in reverse order, with a win earning you a point and the chance to face the next person up the rankings for further points. Swimming then sees athletes seeded into heats for the 200m freestyle race but the most unpredictable event is riding, as competitors are assigned an unfamiliar horse and must navigate 12 show-jumping obstacles in the time allowed, while avoiding penalty points.

116 MODERN PENTATHLON | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | MODERN PENTATHLON 117 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

05 Aug 13.00-19.30 W Fencing Ranking Round

M Fencing Ranking Round

06 Aug 14.30-20.15 W ME Swimming, Fencing Bonus Round, Riding Show Jumping & Laser Run

07 Aug 14.30-20.15 M ME Swimming, Fencing Bonus Round, Riding Show Jumping & Laser Run

Team GB at the Olympic Games

Athens 2004 1

Beijing 2008 1 Gold

London 2012 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 2 2 3 Bronze

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Athlete Bios

Joe Choong Kate French

DOB: 23/05/1995 DOB: 11/02/1991 Hometown: London: Orpington Hometown: Kent: Meopham Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @JoeChoongy Twitter: @KateFrench3 Instagram: @joechoong123 Instagram: @katefrench3 Link for bio Link for bio

Jamie Cooke Jo Muir

DOB: 03/03/1991 DOB: 30/04/1994 Hometown: Gloucestershire: Cheltenham Hometown: Scotland: Haugh of Urr Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @jomuir94 Twitter: @jamiecooke_5 Instagram: @jomuir_194 Instagram: @jamiecooke5 Link for bio Link for bio

Staff Bios

Jan Bartu Michal Janca Chris Price Team Leader & Women’s Head Coach National Coach Team Manager

Craig Davies Jabeena Maslin Marco Quattrini Media Officer Riding Coach Men’s Head Coach

120 MODERN PENTATHLON | ATHLETE BIOS TEAM PROFILES | ROWING 121 It also produced Dame , whose five medals make her Team GB’s most-decorated Rowing female Olympian of all-time and Sir Matthew Introduction Pinsent, who won four consecutive gold medals between 1992 and 2004. Rowing has been part of the summer Olympic and won three Games since Athens 1896, where it was gold medals each – in 2008, 2012 and 2016 – while dramatically cancelled due to bad weather. Jack Beresford became the first rower to win a In the 125 years since, it has become an Olympic medal at five straight Games by claiming three staple and one of most popular sports of every golds and two silvers between 1920 and 1936. Games. On the women’s side, Helen Glover has become Women’s rowing was first introduced at Montreal a rowing sensation by winning gold at 1976 and Tokyo 2020 will see gender equality in the London 2012 and Rio 2016, going on a remarkable sport for the first time – with the men’s lightweight five-year unbeaten streak alongside from the previous Games being . dropped in favour of the women’s coxless four to ensure seven events for each. Glover will now become the first woman to row at an Olympics for Team GB after having children The Olympic classes have fluctuated over the years when she goes for an historic third gold, alongside but, at Tokyo, men and women will compete in Polly Swann, in Tokyo. three sweep disciplines (where competitors each use a single oar) and four disciplines (using The rowing events this summer take place at the two oars placed on opposite sides of the boat). The Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay with Glover and sweep events are the coxless pair, coxless four and Swann part of a 45-strong Team GB rowing squad. coxed eights, with the sculling events comprising a single, double, lightweight double and a quad. Rio 2016 gold medallist will be racing in the men’s eight alongside seven Olympic Races are contested over 2,000m with the first boat debutants, as Vicky Thornley competes at her third crossing the line declared the winner and each Olympics by going in the single sculls. boat class will have heats and repechages, with some also having quarter-finals and semi-finals, Ollie Cook, Matt Rossiter, Rory Gibbs and Sholto before a final. Since its inception, rowing has been Carnegie form the men’s coxless four, while a happy hunting ground for Team GB, with 31 golds Graeme Thomas will finally live his Olympic dream placing them third on the all-time medal table and in the men’s double sculls after being forced to only USA having more than their 68 total medals. withdraw from Rio 2016 through illness just days Rowing has produced some of Team GB’s most before the first race. iconic Olympians, including Sir who won five gold medals, and one bronze, from five successive Olympic Games between 1984 and 2000.

122 ROWING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | ROWING 123 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

23 8.30- M Single Sculls Heats, 28 8.30- M Double Sculls Final B, July 12.10 July 11:40 M Double Sculls Heats, M Four Final B,

M Quadruple Sculls Heats M ----Double Sculls Final A,

M W Single Sculls Heats, ----Four Final A, M W Double Sculls Heats, Eight Repechage, M W Quadruple Sculls Heats Single Sculls Semi-Finals A/B

W Double Sculls Final B, 24 8.30- M Single Sculls Repechage, July 12.30 W Four Final B, M Double Sculls Repechage, W ----Double Sculls Final A, M Pair Heats, W ----Four Final A, M Lightweight Double Sculls Heats, W Eight Repechage, M Four Heats W Single Sculls Semi-Finals A/B W Single Sculls Repechage,

W Double Sculls Repechage, 29 8.30- M Single Sculls Final F, July 11.50 W Pair Heats, M Single Sculls Final E,

W Lightweight Double Sculls Heats, M ----Pair Final A,

W Four Heats M ----Lightweight Double Sculls Final A,

M Pairs Final B, 25 9.00- M Single Sculls Semi-Finals E/F, July 11.40 M Lightweight Double Sculls Final B, ---- M Pair Repechage, Team GB at the Olympic Games M Single Sculls Final D M Lightweight Double Sculls Repechage, W Single Sculls Final F, M Quadruple Sculls Repechage, W Single Sculls Final E, M Eight Heats W ----Pair Final A, W Single Sculls Semi-Finals E/F, W ----Lightweight Double Sculls Final A, W Pair Repechage, W Pairs Final B, W Lightweight 2 2 2 W Lightweight Double Sculls Final B, ---- Beijing 2008 W Double Sculls Repechage, W Single Sculls Final D W Quadruple Sculls Repechage,

W Eight Heats 30 8.45- M Single Sculls Final C, July 10.55 26 9.00- M Single Sculls Quarter-Finals, M Single Sculls Final B, July 11.20 M London 2012 4 2 3 M Double Sculls Semi-Finals, Single Sculls Final A, M M Four Repechage ----Eight Final A W Single Sculls Final C, Gold W Single Sculls Quarter-Finals, Double Sculls W Single Sculls Final B, W Semi-Finals, W Single Sculls Final A, W Four Repechage Rio 2016 3 2 W ----Eight Final A Silver 27 8.30- M Single Sculls Semi-Finals C/D, July 12.00 M Lightweight Double Sculls Final C,

M Quadruple Sculls Final B,

M ----Quadruple Sculls Final A, ALL-TIME TOTAL 31 24 13 Bronze M Pair Semi-Finals A/B, M Lightweight Double Sculls Semi-Finals A/B

W Single Sculls Semi-Finals C/D,

W Lightweight Double Sculls Final C,

W Quadruple Sculls Final B,

W ----Quadruple Sculls Final A,

W Pair Semi-Finals A/B,

W Lightweight Double Sculls Semi-Finals A/B

124 ROWING | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | ROWING 125 Athlete Bios

Victoria Thornley John Collins Matt Rossiter Lucy Glover Sara Parfett Emily Ford Event: Single Sculls Event: Men’s Double Sculls Event: Men’s Four Event: Women’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Women’s Eight Event: Women’s Eight

DOB: 30/11/1987 DOB: 24/01/1989 DOB: 25/09/1989 DOB: 25/11/1998 DOB: 08/10/1991 DOB: 08/11/1994 Hometown: Wales: Wrexham Hometown: London: Twickenham Hometown: Berkshire: Newbury Hometown: Cheshire: Warrington Hometown: Kent: Rochester Hometown: Cheshire: Holmes Previous Games attended: Previous Games attended: Twitter: @RossiBoy2 Twitter: @lucy_gloverx Twitter: @svparfett Chapel Rio 2016, London 2012 Rio 2016 Instagram: @rossiboy2 Instagram: @lucy_gloverx Instagram: @svp_91 Twitter: @emford94 Twitter: @VickyThornleyGB Twitter: @john_collins89 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @emford94 Instagram: @vickythornleygb Instagram: @j_collins89 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio 1

Helen Glover Rowan McKellar Rory Gibbs Harry Leask Rebecca Edwards Matilda Horn Event: Women’s Pair Event: Men’s Four Event: Women’s Four Event: Men’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Women’s Eight Event: Women’s Eight (Cox)

DOB: 17/06/1986 DOB: 24/05/1994 DOB: 03/04/1994 DOB: 16/10/1995 DOB: 20/08/1993 DOB: 16/08/1992 Hometown: : Hometown: Scotland: Glasgow Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: Northern Ireland: Hometown: Berkshire: Windsor Previous Games attended: Twitter: @mckellarrowan Marlow Twitter: @HarryDleask Aughnacloy Twitter: @MatildaHorn Rio 2016, London 2012 Instagram: @rmckellar24 Twitter: @rory_gibbs1 Twitter: @EdwardsR13 Instagram: @harryleask Link for bio Twitter: @Helenglovergb Instagram: @rory_gibbs1 Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @redwards13 Instagram: @helenglovergb Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio 2

Polly Swann Harriet Taylor Sholto Carnegie Angus Groom Chloe Brew Joshua Bugajski Event: Women’s Pair Event: Women’s Four Event: Men’s Four Event: Men’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Women’s Eight Event: Men’s Eight

DOB: 05/06/1988 DOB: 14/02/1994 DOB: 28/02/1995 DOB: 16/06/1992 DOB: 14/09/1995 DOB: 05/10/1990 Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: Berkshire: Hometown: Oxfordshire: Oxford Hometown: Scotland: Glasgow Hometown: Devon: Plymouth Hometown: Greater Manchester: Previous Games attended: Sunningdale Twitter: @Carnegie95 Previous Games attended: Instagram: @chloebrew Stockport Rio 2016 Twitter: @hattietaylor_ Instagram: @sholto_carnegie Rio 2016 Link for bio Twitter: @Joshbugajski Twitter: @PollySwann Instagram: @hattietay Link for bio Twitter: @angusgroom Instagram: @realjoshuabug Instagram: @pollyswanngb Link for bio Instagram: @angusgroom Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio 1

Emily Craig Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne Thomas Barras Katherine Douglas Karen Bennett Event: Men’s Eight Event: Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls Event: Women’s Four Event: Women’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Men’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Women’s Eight

DOB: 30/11/1992 DOB: 05/02/1989 DOB: 01/10/1994 DOB: 07/01/1994 DOB: 03/08/1989 DOB: 02/11/1993 Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: Herefordshire: Hereford Hometown: London: Staines Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: Devon: Plymouth Hometown: East Sussex: Mark Cross Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Link for bio Twitter: @KarenBennett89 Twitter: @mathildahb Instagram: @tom_barras Twitter: @Katherine_Doug Twitter: @jacobplymouth Instagram: @karenbennett89 Instagram: @mathildahodgkinsbyrne Link for bio Instagram: @douglaskatherine Instagram: @dawson8630 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

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Imogen Grant Rebecca Shorten Hannah Scott Jack Beaumont Caragh McMurtry Thomas George Event: Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls Event: Women’s Four Event: Women’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Men’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Women’s Eight Event: Men’s Eight

DOB: 26/02/1996 DOB: 25/11/1993 DOB: 18/06/1999 DOB: 21/11/1993 DOB: 22/08/1991 DOB: 22/09/1994 Hometown: Cambridgeshire: Hometown: Northern Ireland: Hometown: Northern Ireland: Hometown: Berkshire: Hometown: Hampshire: Hometown: Gloucestershire: Cambridge Belfast Coleraine Maidenhead Southampton Cheltenham Twitter: @imogendaisyg Previous Games attended: Twitter: @hannahscott1999 Previous Games attended: Twitter: @caragh_mcmurtry Twitter: @TGtomgeorge Instagram: @imogendaisyg Twitter: @RebeccaShorten Instagram: @hannahscott18 Rio 2016 Instagram: @caraghmcmurtry Instagram: @ tomgeorge1994 Link for bio Instagram: @rebeccashorten Link for bio Twitter: @jackbeaumontt Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @jackbeaumont123 Link for bio

Graeme Thomas Oliver Cook Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne Fiona Gammond Rebecca Muzerie Mohamed Sbihi Event: Men’s Double Sculls Event: Men’s Four Event: Women’s Quadruple Sculls Event: Women’s Eight Event: Women’s Eight Event: Men’s Eight

DOB: 8/11/1988 DOB: 05/06/1990 DOB: 08/10/1996 DOB: 19/10/1992 DOB: 03/12/1989 DOB: 27/03/1988 Hometown: Lancashire: Preston Hometown: Berkshire: Windsor Hometown: Herefordshire: Hereford Hometown: Oxfordshire: Bicester Hometown: Hampshire: Fareham Hometown: London: Surbiton Twitter: @Graeme_Thomas Twitter: @olscook Instagram: @charlottehodgkinsbyrne Twitter: @fionagammond Twitter: @bexylou312 Previous Games attended: Instagram: @graemethomasgb Instagram: @olscook Link for bio Instagram: @fionagammond Instagram: @beccygirling Rio 2016, London 2012 Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @moesbihi Instagram: @moesbihi Link for bio 1 1

126 ROWING | ATHLETE BIOS ATHLETE BIOS | ROWING 127 RUGBY SEVENS

Charles Elwes Henry Fieldman Event: Men’s Eight Event: Men’s Eight Event: Men’s Eight (Cox)

DOB: 15/07/1997 DOB: 07/07/1994 DOB: 25/11/1988 Hometown: Hampshire: Andover Hometown: Northamptonshire: Hometown: London: Barnes Instagram: @crjelwes Litchborough Twitter: @HenryFieldman Link for bio Twitter: @TheRud_Dog Instagram: @henryfieldman Instagram: @james_rudkin Link for bio Link for bio

Oliver Wynne-Griffith Thomas Ford Event: Men’s Eight Event: Men’s Eight

DOB: 29/04/1994 DOB: 03/10/1992 Hometown: Surrey: Guildford Hometown: Cheshire: Holmes

Twitter: @olliewg1994 Chapel Instagram: @olliewg1994 Instagram: @tom_g_ford Link for bio Link for bio

Spares

Madeleine Arlett Morgan Bolding Saskia Budgett Matthew Tarrant

DOB: 07/06/1994 DOB: 13/05/1995 DOB: 21/09/1996 DOB: 11/07/1990 Hometown: Hometown: Hometown: London: Hometown: Surrey: Scotland: Selkirk Cornwall: Withiel Sheppeton Twitter: @MaddieArlett Instagram: Instagram: Previous games attended: Instagram: @morganbolding @saskiabudgett Rio 2016 @maddie_arlett Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: Link for bio @matthewtarrant Instagram: @matthewttarrant Link for bio Staff Bios

Brendan Purcell Hamish Burrell Stephen Gunn Steven Leonard Sarah Moseley Ann Redgrave Paul Stannard Steve Trapmore Darren Whiter Team Leader Crew Coach Crew Coach Physio Physiologist Chief Medical Officer Head Coach - Men’s Scull Head Coach - Men’s Sweep Crew Coach

Liz Arnold Lauren Fisher James Harris Dan Moore Karl Offord Paul Reedy Heather Stephens Gareth Turner Robin Williams Physio Crew Coach Head Coach - Women’s Sweep Crew Coach Boatman Head Coach - Women’s Sweep Physio Physiologist Crew Coach

Shelley Wyatt Media Officer

128 ROWING | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | RUGBY SEVENS 129 The gold medal dreams were ended by Fiji, who were simply magnificent under the tutelage of Rugby former England coach Ben Ryan, but it was still a memorable silver medal for Team GB.

Sevens The women’s team could not quite match them, falling to New Zealand at the semi-final stage Introduction before being beaten by Canada in the bronze- medal play-off as Australia claimed the first-ever women’s rugby gold. Rugby sevens will be making its second appearance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo after Team GB will return in Tokyo in both the men’s and being one of the highlights of Rio 2016. It was in women’s competition after booking their place at Brazil that the oval ball made its Olympic return, 92 the European Qualification events in 2019. years after it had last featured, but in a changed format. The 15-man game was played four times At those events, it was England’s performances between 1900 and 1924, with the USA proving the that earned spots, the men getting the better of most successful side, and the sport was dear to the France in Colomiers, while the women beat Russia heart of no lesser man Baron Pierre de Coubertin, in Kazan. A number of players will be returning in the founder of the modern Olympics, who refereed both squads in Tokyo, including men’s skipper Tom the first-ever French championship rugby final. Mitchell, who has been a key figure in the England set-up for the best part of a decade, while Dan So, it was fitting that it returned to the Olympic fold, Norton is the all-time record try-scorer on the World in the sevens format in 2016. Contested on a full-size Sevens series circuit. rugby pitch, there are only seven players on each team, with matches comprising of two, seven- On the women’s side co-captain Abbie Brown and minute halves, making for a fast-paced game with Natasha Hunt are two of the Rio 2016 stars heading more tries and more space to run than a for a second Games, as is Wales flyer Jasmine 15-a-side game. Joyce. The Games in Tokyo will be played over the course of six days, the men from July 26-28, followed Where it had previously only been played by men by the women from July 29-31. at Olympic level, rugby sevens was played by both men and women in Brazil, producing some Matches will be at Tokyo Stadium, which played spectacular matches. host to eight matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup including the opening game of the tournament On the men’s side, Team GB played out a between Japan and Russia. There are 12 teams in remarkable 0-0 draw in their quarter-final against both competitions, all of whom will compete in the Argentina, with ’s extra-time score putting pool stage before eight advance to the quarter- them through before Tom Mitchell’s conversion finals where it will be a straight knockout format. proved the difference in a 7-5 win over South Africa in the semi-finals.

130 RUGBY SEVENS | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | RUGBY SEVENS 131 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

26 09.00-12.00 M Pool Round (6 matches) July 16.30-19.30 M Pool Round (6 matches)

27 09.00-12.00 M Pool Round (6 matches) July 16.30-19.30 M Placing 9-12 (2 matches), Quarter-Finals (4 matches)

28 09.00-12.00 M Placing 11-12, Placing 9-10, Placing 5-8 (2 matches), Semi-Finals (2 matches) July 16.30-19.00 M ----Placing 7-8, Placing 5-6, Bronze Medal Match & Gold Medal Match

29 09.00-12.00 W Pool Round (6 matches) July 16.30-19.00 W Pool Round (6 matches)

30 09.00-12.00 W Pool Round (6 matches) July 16.30-19.30 W Placing 9-12 (2 matches), Quarter-Finals (4 matches)

31 09.00-12.00 W Placing 11-12, Placing 9-10, Placing 5-8 (2 matches), Semi-Finals (2 matches) July 16.30-19.00 W ----Placing 7-8, Placing 5-6, Bronze Medal Match & Gold Medal Match Athlete Bios Women Reserves Team GB at the Olympic Games Holly Aitchison Deborah Fleming Jasmine Joyce Lisa Thomson DOB: 03/09/1997 DOB: 10/06/1991 DOB: 09/10/1995 Hometown: Merseyside: Hometown: be Cornwall: Hometown: Wales: St David Southport Gulval Previous Games attended: Twitter: : @hollyaitchison_ Twitter: @DeborahF9 Rio 2016

Instagram: @hollyaitchison_ Instagram: @DeborahF91 Twitter: @joyce_jaz Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @jasminejoycee Link for bio DOB: 07/09/1997 Abbie Brown Natasha Hunt Alex Matthews Hometown: Scotland: Hawick

DOB: 21/03/1989 Twitter: @lisathomson10 DOB: 10/04/1996 DOB: 03/08/1993 Gold Hometown: Gloucestershire: Instagram: @lisathomson10 Hometown: Devon: Exeter Hometown: Surrey: Gloucester 1 Previous Games attended: Camberley Link for bio Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @AlexMatthews03 Rio 2016 Twitter: @abbiebrown10 Instagram: @a.matthews06 Twitter: @huntie_1 Silver Instagram: @abbiebrown13 Link for bio Instagram: @huntie_1 Link for bio ALL-TIME TOTAL 1 Link for bio Bronze Abi Burton Megan Jones Helena Rowland DOB: 09/03/2000 DOB: 23/10/1996 DOB: 19/09/1999 Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: Wales: Cardiff Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Leeds Twitter: @megjoneslt Aylesbury Twitter: @AbiLucyBurton Instagram: @thanksmeg Twitter: @HelenaRowland99 Instagram: @abi_burton Link for bio Instagram: @helenarowland99 Link for bio Link for bio

Hannah Smith Celia Quansah Emma Uren

DOB: 30/10/1992 DOB: 25/10/1995 DOB: 01/10/1997 Hometown: Scotland: Falkirk Hometown: London: Hometown: London: Chiswick Instagram: @bigsmithy Twickenham Twitter: @_emmauren Link for bio Twitter: @CeliaAmy Instagram: @emsuren Instagram: @celiaamy Link for bio Link for bio

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Men

Dan Bibby Harry Glover Max McFarland

DOB: 06/02/1991 DOB: 31/12/1995 DOB: 13/07/1993 Hometown: : Greater Manchester: Hometown: London: Canning Hometown: Ireland: Clontarf Aspull Town Instagram: @maxxmcf Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @HarryALGlover Link for bio Instagram: @dbibby15 Instagram: @harryglover1 Link for bio Link for bio

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Alec Coombes Ben Harris Tom Mitchell

DOB: 26/11/1995 DOB: 08/09/1999 DOB: 22/07/1989 Hometown: Scotland: Glasgow Hometown: Buckinghamshire: Hometown: West Sussex: Cuckfield Instagram: @alec_coombes High Wycombe Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Link for bio Twitter: @benharris709 Twitter: @TBobbyMitchell Instagram: @benharris.h Instagram: @trmitchell Link for bio Link for bio

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Alex Davis Oliver Lindsay-Hague DOB: 02/03/1988 DOB: 03/10/1992 DOB: 08/10/1990 Hometown: Gloucestershire: Hometown: Bristol: Bristol Hometown: : London: Gloucester Twitter: @ajldavis03 Wimbledon Previous Games attended: Instagram: @ajldavis Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Rio 2016 Link for bio Twitter: @O_LindsayHague Twitter: @Dan_Norton4 Instagram: @olindsayhague Instagram: @dan_norton4 Link for bio Link for bio 1 1

Robbie Fergusson Ross McCann Ethan Waddleton DOB: 30/08/1993 DOB: : 30/10/1997 DOB: 23/11/1996 Hometown: Scotland: Ayr Hometown: Scotland: Edinburgh Hometown: Suffolk: Ipswich Twitter: @robbiefergusson Instagram: @mccann.ross Twitter: @ethan_waddleton Instagram: @robbiefergusson Link for bio Instagram: @ethan_waddleton Link for bio Link for bio

Reserves Staff Bios Tom Bowen

Charlie Hayter Ben Duffield Isobel Freeman Charlotte Harwood Ally Little Jo Tyler Team Leader & Assistant Coach Performance Analyst Lead Physio - Women Media Officer Lead Physio - Men Assistant Coach Team Operations Manager

DOB: 31/01/1993 Hometown: East Sussex: Brighton Abosede Ajayi Scott Forrest Adam Fuge Dan Howells Ben Lonergan Anthony Roques Twitter: @Tombowen31 Doctor Women’s Head Coach Analyst - Men Lead S&C - Men Lead S&C - Women Men’s Head Coach Instagram: @tombowen31

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The sport formerly known as yachting (until it was renamed sailing at Sydney 2000) continues its streak of featuring at every Olympic Games since 1908. A classic battle of human versus nature – sailors compete not only against other racers but the waves and the wind, and it has always been an arena that Team GB have thrived in. represented Ireland at Rio 2016 but switched

allegiances to Great Britain the following year, and No nation has been more successful at the Olympic now partners Charlotte Dobson in the FX. Games and a mammoth 28 Olympic golds is nine more than second-placed United States on the all- Tokyo 2020 has ten sailing classes in total – four time medal table. for women, five for men and the mixed Nacra 17, Nineteen silver and 11 bronze medals make for where John Gimson and Anna Burnet will go for an impressive total haul of 58 from British sailors gold after becoming world champions in 2020. over the last 113 years. Incomparable four-time champion Sir Ben Ainslie remains the most In the RS:X class, a pair of windsurfers will be making decorated sailor in Olympic history, while a gold their Olympic debuts for Team GB in the form of medal in Tokyo would make Hannah Mills the most double youth world champion Emma Wilson and successful female Olympic sailor of all-time. horticulture graduate Tom Squires. Mills already owns a silver medal from London Yacht Harbour, in Fujisawa City is the 2012 and a gold from Rio 2016 and she is aiming venue for all competitions and after a week of to defend her women’s 470 crown alongside Eilidh racing – where the winner of each race scores one McIntyre, whose dad Mike won gold for Team point, second place two and so on, with each boat GB in the Star class at Seoul 1988. Mills’ success able to drop their worst score – the top 10 move into alongside Saskia Clark was one of Team GB’s two the medal race, where double points are given. sailing golds in Rio, with Giles Scott ensuring the remarkable record of a Brit taking gold at every The sailor or crew with the lowest aggregate score 21st-century Olympic Games continued. following the medal race will take Olympic gold and add their name to the pantheon Scott is back to defend his Finn title in Tokyo, while of champions. London 2012 silver medallists Luke Patience and have also been selected – Patience competing in the 470 class alongside Chris Grube, while Bithell links up with another Rio Olympian, , in the 49er. The team also features Saskia Tidey, who

136 SAILING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | SAILING 137 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

25 July 12:00-18.00 W -RS:X, Laser Radial 01 Aug 12:00-18.00 W ME -Laser Raidal Medal Race, 470

M -RS:X, Laser M ME -Laser Medal Race, Finn, 470,

W M -Nacra 17 26 July 12:00-18.00 W -RS:X, Laser Radial

M -RS:X, Laser 02 Aug 12:00-18.00 W ME -49er FX Medal Race, 470

27 July 12:00-18.00 W -Laser Radial, 49er FX M ME -49er Medal Race, 470

M -Laser, Finn, 49er 03 Aug 14:30-16:55 W M ME -Nacra 17 Medal Race

28 July 12:00-18.00 W -RS:X, 470, 49er FX M ME -Finn Medal Race

M -RS:X, Finn, 470, 49er

04 Aug 14:30-16:55 W ME -470 Medal Race W M -Nacra 17

M ME -470 Medal Race

29 July 12:00-18.00 W -RS:X, Laser Radial, 470 Team GB at the Olympic Games M -RS:X, Laser, Finn, 470 W M -Nacra 17

30 July 12:00-18.00 W -Laser Radial, 470, 49er FX M -Laser, 470, 49er 4 1 1 Beijing 2008 31 July 12:00-18.00 W ME -RS:X Medal Race, 49er FX

M ME -RS:X Medal Race, Finn, 49er

W M -Nacra 17 London 2012 1 4 Gold

Rio 2016 2 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 28 19 11 Bronze

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Chris Grube Dylan Fletcher Giles Scott John Gimson Event: 470 men’s Event: 49er Event: Finn Event: Nacra 17 DOB: 22/01/1985 DOB: 03/04/1988 DOB: 23/06/1987 DOB: 11/03/1983 Hometown: Cheshire: Chester Hometown: Leicestershire: Hometown: Cambridgeshire: Hometown: Cheshire: Congleton Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Market Harborough Huntingdon Twitter: @teamgbnacra Twitter: @chrisgrubegbr Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @teamgbnacra Instagram: @chrisgrube1 Twitter: @GBR49erTeam Olympic Medals: Gold (Rio) Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @dylan_fletcherscott Twitter: @GilesScott Link for bio Instagram: @gilesscott87 Link for bio

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Luke Patience Stuart Bithell Elliot Hanson Tom Squires Event: 470 men’s Event: 49er Event: Laser Event: RS:X men’s DOB: 04/08/1986 DOB: 28/08/1986 DOB: 12/02/1994 DOB: 03/08/1993 Hometown: Scotland: Rhu Hometown: Greater Manchester: Hometown: Cheshire: Macclesfield Hometown: Oxfordshire: Oxford Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Rochdale Twitter: @Elliot_Hanson Twitter: @squireswindsurf London 2012 Previous Games attended: London 2012 Instagram: @ehansonsailing Instagram: @squireswindsurf Olympic Medals: Silver (London) Olympic Medals: Silver (London) Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @patience_luke Twitter: @stubithell Instagram: @lukepatience Instagram: @stubithell Link for bio Link for bio

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Eilidh McIntyre Charlotte Dobson Alison Young Emma Wilson Event: 470 women’s Event: 49er FX Event: Laser Radial Event: RS:X women’s DOB: 04/06/1994 DOB: 05/06/1986 DOB: 29/05/1987 DOB: 07/04/1999 Hometown: Hampshire: Hayling Island Hometown: Scotland: Rhu Hometown: Worcestershire: Bewdley Hometown: Dorset: Christchurch Twitter: @McintyreEilidh Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @emma_wilson961 Instagram: @mcintyreeilidh Twitter: @charlottegbr London 2012 Instagram: @emmawilson_gbr7 Link for bio Instagram: @charlottisobeldobson Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

Hannah Mills Saskia Tidey Anna Burnet Event: 470 women’s Event: 49er FX Event: Nacra 17 DOB: 29/02/1988 DOB: 11/06/1993 DOB: 17/09/1992 Hometown: Wales: Cardiff Hometown: Ireland: Dublin Hometown: Scotland: Shandon Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 (IRE), Twitter: @teamgbnacra London 2012 Twitter: @saskiatidey Instagram: @teamgbnacra Olympic Medals: Gold (Rio) Instagram: @saskiatidey Link for bio Silver (London) Link for bio Twitter: @hannahmills1988 Instagram: @hannahmills_gbr Link for bio

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Staff Bios

Mark Robinson Brad Bradbury Joe Glanfield Mark Rushall Team Leader Rib Engineer Coach Coach Technical Staff

Will Carson Simon Crampton Chris Gowers Dom Tidey Media Officer Psychologist Coach Coach Coach

Maxime Albrecht Henrietta Dutton Morgan Reeser Louise Turner Bosun Chef Bosun Coach Physio

Alex Anastasiou Kate Eddy Alexander Hopson Ian Walker Physiologist SSSM Lead S&C Coach Coach Racing Director

Charlie Baillie Strong Barrie Edgington Matthew Howard Kate Richardson Alex Wardall Coach Coach Coach Physio Team Logistics

Steve Baynes Cheryl Evans Adam May Simon Rowell Ian White Doctor Sous-Chef Technical Staff Meteorologist Physiologist

142 SAILING | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | SHOOTING 143 Edinburgh-born McIntosh is the first British woman to be ranked world number one for the 50m rifle three Shooting positions event, won three World Cup medals in 2019, including gold at the final in China, and also Introduction became 50m rifle prone world champion in 2018. Excruciating tension, minute margins and Meanwhile, Matt Coward-Holley goes to Japan as unbreakable concentration – shooting is a unique reigning men’s trap world champion. To put that Olympic challenge. Now a feat of firing technology into context, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Ed Ling was and technique, shooting has come a long way the only previous Briton to reach the trap podium at since live pigeons were the target at the Paris 1900 the World Championships. The 26-year-old broke his Games, with the sport having featured in every back playing rugby as a teenager and will hope for Olympics apart from 1904 and 1928. a fairy tale Olympic debut as one of the favourites for the podium, while he’s also likely to compete in There will be 15 gold medals on offer in Tokyo the mixed team trap. in both bullseye shooting – on an indoor range, using rifles and pistols – and outdoor clay pigeon Team GB currently rank sixth on the all-time shooting shooting using shotguns. Olympic medal table with 13 golds, 15 silvers and 18 There are individual and team bullseye events bronzes in the total haul of 46. using air pistols, rapid fire pistols and air rifles from a variety of distances and positions, with mixed Malcolm Cooper, son of a naval officer from Surrey, 10m air rifle and air pistol team events making their is one of Team GB’s Olympic shooting heroes after Olympic debut. winning 50m rifle three positions gold at both LA 1984 and Seoul 1988. After a ranking round to determine eight finalists – rifle and pistol finals are run in an elimination format, Meanwhile, Peter Wilson’s name is never far from where the lowest-scoring shooter following each anyone’s lips when it comes to shooting after his series of shots is knocked out before gold and silver incredible double trap victory as one of three medals are decided by a head-to-head shoot-off. Team GB golds on the sixth day of London 2012 Meanwhile, skeet and trap are the two classic and he remains the world record holder in the now shotgun disciplines. Skeet sees targets launched discontinued Olympic event. from one high and one low ‘house’, whereas in trap they are launched from a single house.

The top six shooters go through to a semi-final, where the first two then shoot off for gold, with third and fourth competing for bronze. Team GB’s lone hope on the indoor range will come from Seonaid McIntosh – daughter of international shooting stars Shirley and Donald, and the younger sister of two-time Olympian Jennifer – who is primed for her Olympic debut in Tokyo.

144 SHOOTING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | SHOOTING 145 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

10m Air Rifle Qualification 50m Rifle 3 Positions 24 July 8:30-16.30 W ME 31 July 12:00-18.00 W ME & Final Qualification & Final 10m Air Pistol Qualification Trap Mixed Team M ME M W ME & Final Qualification & Final

Skeet Qualification, 10m Air Pistol 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification 25 July 9:00-16.30 W ME 01 Aug 8:30-13.15 M Qualification & Final - Stage 1 Skeet Qualification, 10m Air Rifle M ME Qualification & Final 02 Aug 8.30-18.00 M ME 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification - Stage 2 & Final, 50m 26 July 9:00-17.15 W ME Skeet Qualification & Finals

M ME Rifle 3 Positions Qualification M ME Skeet Qualification & Finals & Final

10m Air Rifle Mixed Team 27 July 9.00-16.30 ME M W Qualification & Final,

10m Air Pistol Mixed Team M W ME Qualification & Final

28 July 9.00-16.00 W Trap Qualification Team GB at the Olympic Games M Trap Qualification

29 July 9.00-16.55 M ME Trap Qualification & Final

W ME 25m Pistol Precision Stage, Trap Qualification & Final

30 July Sydney 2000 1 1 9:00-15.00 W ME 25m Pistol Qualification & Final

London 2012 1 Gold

Rio 2016 2 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 13 15 18 Bronze

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Athlete Bios

Matthew Coward-Holley Amber Hill Event: Olympic Trap Event: Olympic Trap

DOB: 14/12/1994 DOB: 21/08/1997 Hometown: Essex: Chelmsford Hometown: Berkshire: Windsor Twitter: @mcholley14 Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Instagram: @mattcowardholley Twitter: @Amberjohill Link for bio Instagram: @amberjohill Link for bio

Kirsty Hegarty Seonaid McIntosh Event: Olympic Trap Event: 50m 3p, 10m Rifle

DOB: 12/09/1988 DOB: 15/03/1996 Hometown: Northern Ireland: Hometown: Scotland: Edinbugh Craigavon Instagram: @minimac_400 Twitter: @kirstybarr88 Link for bio Instagram: @kb.barr88 Link for bio

Aaron Heading Event: Olympic Trap

DOB: 21/05/1987 Hometown: Norfolk: King’s Lynn Instagram: @gbraaronheading Link for bio

Staff Bios

Steven Seligmann Donald McIntosh Per Moen Team Leader Trap Coach Rifle Coach Skeet Coach

Craig Davies Paul Hughes Marco Micheli Media Officer Psychologist Trap Coach

148 SHOOTING | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | SKATEBOARDING 149 The 2019 world bronze medallist, who only turned 13 on July 12, will become the country’s all-time Skateboarding youngest summer Olympian when she makes her Introduction debut at Ariake Urban Sports Park on August 4th, unseating swimmer Margery Hinton who has held the honour for 93 years. Canadian pop-punk songstress Avril Lavigne may forever lay claim to the most famous ‘Sk8er Boi’, but Wunderkind Brown was born in Miyazaki, Japan to two British girls could wheel their way to gold and a Japanese mother and a British father, and splits glory in Tokyo. her time between California and her birth country.

Skateboarding is one of four sports making an Brown first caught the attention of former Olympic debut this summer, premiering in Japan Skateboard GB chair Lucy Adams when she alongside karate, sport climbing and surfing. placed second at the Skate UK x NASS Women’s Open Street Competition in 2017. Adams, who Its origins are murky, but by the mid-20th century finished third, was 33 at the time; Brown was nine. companies like Hobie and Makaha were marketing Last summer, Brown was airlifted to hospital after wheeled wooden boards to off-duty California a horrific crash left her with numerous injuries, surfers. The sport’s popularity waxed and waned including a fractured skull, a broken wrist and a over the ensuing decades, always teetering on the black eye – an accident, said her father Stu, that edge of counterculture and the mainstream. left the family fearing for the worst. In 1995, the inaugural X Games introduced skateboarding to the ESPN-watching masses, The multi-talented athlete and star of social media, launching the careers of bona-fide skateboarding who won the American TV competition Dancing megastars like Tony Hawk off the edge of the half- with the Stars: Juniors competition in 2018, was pipe and into the stratosphere. also recently named to Surfing England’s Elite Programme in its under-16 girls’ junior squad. Olympic skateboarding is divided into two disciplines: street and park. In the former, timed She’ll be joined in the Olympic park event by fellow competitors will be judged as they demonstrate teen Bombette Martin, a US-born Brit who spent their best tricks on an urban-inspired course filled much of her childhood in Birmingham. In April, the with rails, stairs, benches and curbs. 14-year-old daughter of British former boxer Jon boosted her Tokyo 2020 chances with a win at the In park, athletes will showcase their talents in a British National Skateboard Championships. steep, bowl-like structure resembling the empty pools of skateboarding’s DIY past, where they’ll also be scored on difficulty and originality. Britain’s leading medal contender, Sky Brown, will have to wait two more Olympic cycles before she could legally celebrate a medal with a glass of bubbly.

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Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

25 July 09.00-13.55 M ME Street Prelims Heats & Final

26 July 09.00-13.55 W ME Street Prelims Heats & Final

04 July 09.00-13.40 W ME Park Prelims Heats & Final

05 July 09.00-13.40 M ME Park Prelims Heats & Final

Athlete Bios

Sky Brown Bombette Martin

DOB: 07/07/2008 DOB: June 2006 Hometown: Japan: Miyazaki Hometown: West Midlands: Birmingham Twitter: @skyandocean Instagram: @bombette_martin Instagram: @skybrown Link for bio Link for bio

Staff Bios

Darren Pearcy Jon Martin Team Leader Athlete Chaperone

Stewart Brown Tim Peake Athlete Chaperone & Coach Media Officer

152 SKATEBOARDING | SCHEDULE, ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | SPORT CLIMBING 153 Sport climbing Introduction

Making its Olympic debut, sport climbing is set to be an instant fan favourite, with excitement guaranteed as climbers put their skills and strength to the test. Athletes will use a range of hand and Inspired by French rock climber Catherine foot holds to scale a vertical wall that varies in Destivelle, Coxsey started climbing at the age of angles and height depending on the discipline. four and is now Great Britain’s most successful ever athlete in the sport on the international stage. The format of sport climbing at Tokyo 2020 Coxsey has two overall World Cup titles to her combines speed climbing, bouldering and lead name after stunning performances in her favoured climbing at the 8,400-capacity Aomi Urban Sports discipline of bouldering in 2016 and 2017. Park. Speed climbing sees two competitors race against each other on a 15-metre wall set at a She clinched two bronze medals in the bouldering 95-degree angle, with the fastest to the top winning. and combined events at the 2019 Climbing World Championships, with the latter effort ensuring she Bouldering takes places on a 4.5m wall where secured a qualification spot for Tokyo 2020. athletes will aim to climb as many fixed routes as they can within four minutes but without She is also a multiple-time British champion, with her safety ropes and only a mat to cushion their fall. first triumph coming in 2012, a regular World Cup Meanwhile, lead climbing does allow competitors medallist and was awarded an MBE in the 2016 to use ropes as they aim to climb as high as Birthday Honours. possible on a 15m wall within a specified time. Based in Sheffield – the home of legendary A total of 20 men and 20 women will compete Olympians like Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Lord in the three disciplines with one set of medals Sebastian Coe – Coxsey is on a quest to scale new awarded to each gender based on their combined heights for Team GB in Tokyo. scores. Shauna Coxsey will make history at Tokyo 2020 after being named as Team GB’s first ever Olympic sport climber.Coxsey has twice been forced to cancel her wedding due to Covid-19 but the 28-year-old from Runcorn will hope the year’s delay to the Games hasn’t dented her chance of claiming an historic medal.

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Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

03 Aug 17:00-22:40 M -Men’s Combined Qualification

04 Aug 17:00-22:40 W -Women’s Combined Qualification

05 Aug 17:30-22:20 M ME -Men’s Combined Final

03 Aug 17:30-22:20 W ME Women’s Combined Final

Athlete Bios

Shauna Coxsey

DOB: 27/01/1993 Hometown: Cheshire: Runcorn Twitter: @ShaunaCoxsey Instagram: @ShaunaCoxsey Link for bio

Staff Bios

Lorraine Brown Paul Houghoughi Team Leader Physio

Leah Crane Gemma Field Coach Media Officer

156 SPORT CLIMBING | MEDAL TALLY TEAM PROFILES | SWIMMING 157 Swimming Introduction

One of the most popular sports on the Olympic schedule, swimming maintains its record of appearing at every Games since the very first in 1896. Tokyo 2020 will see 37 events, 18 each for men and women and one mixed, with the addition of the men’s 800m freestyle, women’s 1500m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay.

Thirty-five of those events will take place within the first Peaty broke his own world record in both the heats and ten days of the Games, while the open-water swimming the final, and the man from Uttoxeter recently became competition starts three days later. Despite the early the owner of the 20 fastest 100m times in adoption of the sport, Olympic swimming didn’t move history. Peaty was Team GB’s only Rio 2016 swimming indoors to a pool until the first London Olympics in 1908. gold medallist, while he also won one of the five silver Instead, it was held in open water for the first three medals in the 4x100m medley relay. The six medals won Games, including twice in the Mediterranean Sea. in Rio was Team GB’s best haul in more than half a century. Open-water swimming then joined the Olympics in 2008 and Team GB has three medals to date, all coming in swam the freestyle leg in that event and Beijing. In total, Team GB have 74 Olympic swimming he travels to Tokyo with high medal hopes, while 200m medals, including 16 golds, and sit seventh in the overall backstroke ace and 50m freestyle medal table. Swimming has also produced some of Ben Proud have both been medallists on the world stage. the most iconic British Olympians, including 1960 200m On the women’s side, champion breaststroke champion Anita Lonsbrough, who was the is the most experienced member of the first British female flagbearer at Tokyo 1964. team and is set for her third Games, having postponed retirement by 12 months in order to race this summer. British men dominated the 100m breaststroke during the 1980s as Duncan Goodhew in Moscow and Adrian set a world-leading 200m breaststroke Moorhouse in Seoul climbed the top step of the podium, time at this year’s British Trials and she and two-time while ’s golden freestyle double at European freestyle relay champion – Beijing 2008, aged just 19, made her one of the country’s just 20 – will be ones to watch. Joining them as medal most recognised sporting stars. contenders will be the likes of Abbie Wood, who had a breakout 2020, backstroker and Wales’ The current Team GB swimming superstar is , Alys Thomas, who will be making her Olympic debut at the fastest breaststroker of all time. At just 26, Peaty is the age of 30. attempting to become the first Team GB swimmer in history to defend an Olympic title after he blitzed the field in the men’s 100m breaststroke at Rio 2016.

158 SWIMMING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | SWIMMING 159 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event Date Time Event

24 19:00 M 400m IM Heats 27 19:00 M 100m Freestyle Heats 30 19:00 M 50m Freestyle Heats July -21.30 July -21.30 July -21.30 M 400m Freestyle Heats M 200m Breaststroke Heats M 1500m Freestyle Heats

M 100m Breaststroke Heats M 4x200m Freestyle Relay Heats M 4x100m Medley Relay Heats

M 800m Freestyle Heats W 100m Butterfly Heats W 50m Freestyle Heats W 200m Butterfly Heats W 400m IM Heats W 4x100m Medley Relay Heats

W 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heats 28 10.30 M 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals 31 10.30 M 100m Butterfly Final July -13.05 July -12.20 25 10.30 M 400m IM Final M 200m Butterfly Final M 50m Freestyle Semi-Finals July -12.20 M 400m Freestyle Final M 200m Breaststroke Semi-Finals W 200m Backstroke Final

M 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals M 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final W 800m Freestyle Final

W 100m Butterfly Semi-Finals W 200m Freestyle Final W 50m Freestyle Semi-Finals

W 400m IM Final W 200m Butterfly Semi-Finals M W Mixed 4x100m Medley W 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final W 200m IM Final Relay Final

W 1500m Freestyle Final 19:00 M 200m Freestyle Heats 1 10.30 M 50m Freestyle Final M Aug -12.20 -21.30 M 100m Backstroke Heats 19:00 200m Backstroke Heats M 1500m Freestyle Final -21.30 M M 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heats 200m IM Heats M 4x100m Medley Relay Final

W 100m Freestyle Heats W 100m Backstroke Heats W 50m Freestyle Final W 200m Breaststroke Heats W 100m Breaststroke Heats W 4x100m Medley Relay Final W 4x200m Freestyle Relay Heats Team GB at the Olympic Games W 400m Freestyle Heats

29 10.30 M 800m Freestyle Final 26 10.30 M 200m Freestyle Semi-Finals July -13.10 M 200m Breaststroke Final July -12.40 M 100m Breaststroke Final M 200m Backstroke Semi-Finals M 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals M 100m Freestyle Final M 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final M 200m IM Semi-Finals 2 2 2 W 100m Butterfly Final Beijing 2008 W 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals W 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals W 200m Butterfly Final W 400m Freestyle Final W 200m Breastroke Semi-Finals W 100m Backstroke Semi-Finals W 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final

19.00 M 200m Butterfly Heats 1 19.00 M 100m Butterfly Heats London 2012 2 -21.30 W Freestyle Heats -21.30 W 800m Freestyle Heats W 200m IM Heats Gold W 200m Backstroke Heats W 1500m Freestyle Heats M W Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Heats Rio 2016 1 5 27 10.30 M 200m Freestyle Final July -12.25 30 10.30 M 100m Butterfly Semi-Finals Silver M 100m Backstroke Final July -12.10 M 200m Backstroke Final M 200m Butterfly Semi-Finals M 200m IM Final W 200m Freestyle Semi-Finals W ALL-TIME TOTAL 16 28 30 W 100m Backstroke Final 200m Breaststroke Final Bronze W W 100m Breaststroke Final 100m Freestyle Final W W 200m IM Semi-Finals 200m Backstroke Semi-Finals

160 SWIMMING | MEDAL TALLY SCHEDULE | SWIMMING 161 Athlete Bios

Freya Anderson Adam Peaty Max Litchfield Jacob Whittle Event: Freestyle Event: Breaststroke Event: Medley Event: Freestyle Event: Freestyle DOB: 04/03/1995 DOB: 04/03/2001 DOB: 28/12/1994 DOB: 25/09/2004 DOB: 30/01/1997 Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: Merseyside: Hometown: Staffordshire: Uttoxeter Hometown: Derbyshire: Alfreton Hometown: Scotland: Jedburgh Pontefract Upton Previous Games attended: Twitter: @Jacobwhittle11 Twitter: @LucyHope_ Previous Games attended: Twitter: @freyaandersonn Rio 2016 Instagram: @jacobwhittle04 Instagram: @lucyhope_ Rio 2016 Instagram: freyaanderson_ Twitter: @adam_peaty Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @maxlitch1995 Link for bio Instagram: @adam_peaty Instagram: @litchfield.max 1 1 Link for bio Link for bio Luke Greenbank Ben Proud Aimee Willmott Laura Stephens Event: Backstroke Tom Dean Event: Freestyle Event: Medley Event: Freestyle Event: Butterfly DOB: 26/02/1993 DOB: 17/09/1997 DOB: 21/09/1994 DOB: 02/05/2000 Hometown: North Yorkshire: DOB: 02/06/1999 Hometown: Cumbria: Hometown: Malaysia: Kuala Hometown: Berkshire: Middlesbrough Hometown: : Essex: Colchester Cockermouth Lumpur Maidenhead Previous Games attended: Twitter: @laurakjs99 Twitter: @lukegreenbank97 Previous Games attended: Twitter: @tomdean00 Rio 2016, London 2012 Instagram: @laurakjs99 Instagram: @lukegreenbank Rio 2016 Instagram: @tomdean00 Twitter: @aimee_willmott Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @BenProud Link for bio Instagram: @aimee_willmott Instagram: @benproudswim Link for bio Link for bio Daniel Jervis Anna Hopkin Abbie Wood Alice Dearing Event: Freestyle Molly Renshaw Event: Medley, Breaststroke Event: Freestyle Event: Breaststroke Event: Marathon Swimming

DOB: 09/06/1996 DOB: 26/04/1996 DOB: 06/05/1996 DOB: 02/03/1999 DOB: 23/04/1997 Hometown: Wales: Neath Hometown: Lancashire: Hometown: Nottinghamshire: Hometown: Derbyshire: Buxton Hometown: West Midlands: Instagram: @danieljervis1 Chorley Mansfield Twitter: @AbbieLouiseW Birmingham Link for bio Twitter: @AnnaHopkin Previous Games attended: Instagram: @AbbieWood1 Twitter: @alicedearingx Instagram: @anna_hopkin Rio 2016 Link for bio Instagram: @alicedearingx Link for bio Twitter: @MollyRenshaw Link for bio Instagram: @molrenshaw Link for bio Event: Breaststroke Joe Litchfield Hector Pardoe Event: Medley Sarah Vasey Duncan Scott Event: Breaststroke Event: Medley, Freestyle Event: Marathon Swimming DOB: 14/01/1994 DOB: 08/07/1998 DOB: 06/05/1997 DOB: 29/03/2001 Hometown: Scotland: Balloch DOB: 29/08/1996 Hometown: West Yorkshire: Hometown: Scotland: Hometown: Wales: Wrexham Previous Games attended: Hometown: Derbyshire: Derby Pontefract Glasgow Twitter: @hector_pardoe Rio 2016 Twitter: @sarahvasey96 Twitter: @joelitchfield Previous Games attended: Instagram: @hectorpardoe Twitter: @RossMurdoch_ Instagram: @sarahvasey96 Instagram: @joelitchfield_ Rio 2016 Instagram: @rossmurdoch_ Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Twitter: @Dunks_Scott Link for bio Instagram: @dunks_scott 2 Link for bio Kieran Bird Event: Freestyle Jacob Peters Brodie Williams James Wilby Event: Butterfly Event: Backstroke, Medley Event: Breaststroke DOB: 02/09/1999 DOB: 20/08/2000 DOB: 18/03/1999 DOB: 12/11/1993 Hometown: Oxfordshire: Hometown: Dorset: Poole Hometown: Somerset: Street Hometown: Scotland: Glasgow Bicester Twitter: @Jac0bP2000 Twitter: @Brodie_03 Twitter: @jameswilby Twitter: @kieranbiird Instagram: @jacobpeters_ Instagram: @brodiewilliams99 Instagram: @jameswilby Instagram: @kieranbiird Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

James Guy Kathleen Dawson Event: Freestyle, Butterfly Event: Backstroke Alicia Wilson Alys Thomas Event: Medley Event: Butterfly DOB: 26/11/1995 Hometown: Greater DOB: 03/10/1997 DOB: 5/03/2000 DOB: 10/10/1990 Manchester: Bury Hometown: Cheshire: Hometown: Surrey: Tadworth Hometown: Wales: Swansea Previous Games attended: Warrington Twitter: @AliciaMWilson1 Twitter: @Alys_Thomas Rio 2016 Twitter: @Dawson_Kathleen Instagram: @AliciaWilson2000 Instagram: @Alys_Thomas Instagram: @dawson_kathleen Twitter: @Jimbob95goon Link for bio Link for bio Instagram: @james.g.guy Link for bio 2 Link for bio Harriet Jones Event: Butterfly Calum Jarvis Event: Freestyle Matt Richards Cassie Wild Event: Freestyle Event: Backstroke DOB: 27/05/1997 Hometown: Wales: Cardiff DOB: 12/05/1992 DOB: 17/12/2002 DOB: 12/06/2000 Twitter: @harrietjoness_ Hometown: Wadebridge: Hometown: Worcestershire: Hometown: Cheshire: Chester Instagram: @harrietjoness Cornwall Droitwich Twitter: @cassiewild2 Link for bio Twitter: @CalumJarvis Twitter: @M4ttRichards Instagram: @cassie.wild Instagram: @calum.jarvis Instagram: @m4ttrichards Link for bio Link for bio Link for bio

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Staff Bios

Chris Spice Euan Dale Tim Jones Dawn Peart Team Leader Team Manager

Matt Ashman Guy Evans Olly Logan Neil Shanks Physio Doctor Performance Scientist

Tom Bates Jol Finck Melanie Marshall Steven Tigg Sports Psychologist Coach Coach Coach

Lisa Bates Bill Furniss David McNulty Steven Tigg Coach Head Coach Coach Coach

Adrian Campbell-Krause Angela George Ruth Norfolk Performance Scientist Physio Senior Managing Victory Officer

Richard Chessor David Hemmings Rob Norman Coach S&C Coach

164 SWIMMING | STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | TABLE TENNIS 165 “Team GB have three players heading to Tokyo for the individual events as they look to bring home a Table Tennis first-ever Olympic medal in the sport. Introduction This will be Liam Pitchford’s third Olympic Games, having previously competed at London 2012 and Precision, speed, power – those are just some of Rio 2016. In Rio, the Chesterfield native lost in the the skills that you need to be a world-class table third round of the men’s singles and was part of the tennis player. Since becoming an Olympic sport at men’s team – alongside Paul Drinkhall and Sam Seoul 1988, China have dominated at the Games Walker – that reached the quarter-finals before by winning 28 of the 32 gold medals available losing to dominant, eventual gold medallists China. and their stars will once again be the ones to beat heading into Tokyo 2020. Pitchford gained a measure of revenge in 2018 when he beat world and Olympic champion Ma Originally, table tennis was played in Victorian Long at the Bulgaria Open – perhaps the biggest England as a recreational game, using cigar boxes win of his career to date – and has become a for racquets and a spherical champagne cork as staple of the top 20 in the world rankings since, to a ball – a far throw from the rubber-sided paddles qualify for Tokyo. Drinkhall will also be in Tokyo for and light plastic balls used in the modern, fast- his third Olympic Games after making the team for paced, intense game. London and Rio. He impressed in Rio five years ago by becoming only the third Brit in history to reach Although it is classified as a racquet sport and the last 16 stage of the singles at an Olympics. follows similar rules to tennis, table tennis has a unique scoring system, with each match played the They will be joined by Olympic debutant Tin-Tin best out of seven games and players battling it out Ho, who will be competing in the women’s to reach 11 points, clear by a margin of two, to win singles Pitchford and Ho have previously won two each game. Commonwealth Games mixed doubles silver medals in 2014 and 2018, with Ho also gaining a Each player has two serves before their opponent bronze in the women’s team event on the Gold takes over, unless the score is tied at 10-10 in which Coast. Ho is the first British female table tennis player case serves are switched after each point. to qualify for an Olympics since Atlanta 1996, thanks to her ranking as world No. 93 – although Team GB The Olympic format works as a straight knockout, did have a female contingent at London 2012 due with the winning player or team progressing from to the status as hosts. each match until two remain and contest the gold medal match. The 22-year-old is currently studying at the University of Nottingham as a medical student, and her Tokyo 2020 will feature women’s and men’s singles, Olympic qualification was a major milestone for women’s and men’s team events and also a mixed women’s table tennis in the UK. doubles competition for the first time.

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event Date Time Event

24 09.00-12.45 M Singles Preliminary Round 19:30-22.30 M Team Round of 16 July W Singles Preliminary Round W Team Round of 16

M W ----Mixed Doubles Round of 16

14.15-17.15 M Singles Round 1 02 10.00-13.00 M Team Round of 16 Aug W Singles Round 1 W Team Round of 16

19:30-22.30 M Singles Round 1 14.30-17.30 M Team Quarter-Finals

W Singles Round 1 W Team Quarter-Finals 19:30-22.30 M Team Quarter-Finals 25 10.00-12.00 M W ----Mixed Doubles Quarter-Finals W Team Quarter-Finals July 14.00-17.45 W Singles Round 2

M Singles Round 2 03 10.00-13.00 M Team Round of 16 20:00-22.00 M W ----Mixed Doubles Semi-Finals- Aug W Team Round of 16 14.30-17.30 M Team Quarter-Finals 26 10.00-13.00 M Singles Round 2 W Team Quarter-Finals July W Singles Round 2 19:30-22.30 W Team Semi-Finals 14.30-17.30 M Singles Round 3

W Singles Round 3 04 10.00-13.00 W Team Semi-Finals 20:00-22.10 M W ------Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match & Gold Aug 14.30-17.30 M Team Semi-Finals Medal Match 19:30-22.30 M Team Semi-Finals

27 10.00-13.00 M Singles Round 3 05 11.00-14.00 W ----Team Bronze Medal Match July W Singles Round 3 Aug 19:30-22.40 W ----Team Gold Medal Match 14.30-17.30 M Singles Round 3 & Round of 16

W Singles Round 3 & Round of 16------06 11.00-14.00 M ----Team Bronze Medal Match 19:30-22.30 M Singles Round of 16 Aug 19:30-22.40 M ----Team Gold Medal Match W Singles Round of 16

28 10.00-13.00 M Singles Quarter-Finals

July W Singles Quarter-Finals

15.00-18.00 M Singles Quarter-Finals

W Singles Quarter-Finals

20:00-22.00 M Singles Quarter-Finals

29 11.00-13.00 W Singles Semi-Finals July 15.00-17.00 M Singles Semi-Finals 22.00-22.10 W ----Singles Bronze Medal Match & Gold Medal Match

29 22.00-22.10 W ----Singles Bronze Medal Match & Gold Medal Match July

01 10.00-13.00 M Team Round of 16

Aug W Team Round of 16

14.30-17.30 M Team Round of 16

W Team Round of 16

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Athlete Bios

Paul Drinkhall Liam Pitchford

DOB: 16/01/1990 DOB: 12/07/1993 Hometown: : North Yorkshire: Hometown: Derbyshire: Chesterfield Middlesbrough Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, London 2012 London 2012 Twitter: @liampitchford Twitter: @pdrinkhall Instagram: @liam_pitchford93 Instagram: @paul_drinkhall Link for bio Link for bio

Tin-Tin Ho

DOB: 03/09/1998 Hometown: : London: Paddington Twitter: @TinTinHo39 Instagram: @tintin.ho Link for bio

Staff Bios

Simon Mills Carys Edwards Gavin Evans Team Leader Media Officer Coach

170 TABLE TENNIS | ATHLETE BIOS TEAM PROFILES | TAEKWONDO 171 The Welsh golden girl from Bodelwyddan hopes to become both the first taekwondo player to claim Taekwondo three Olympic titles and the first British woman to Introduction win gold medals at three separate Games. Jones has already made history as the first Briton to “The art of kicking and punching” – taekwondo’s win gold in her sport back at London 2012 and is direct translation into English is a neat summary one of only six athletes, of any nationality, to have of one of the newer Olympic sports. Developed earned two Olympic taekwondo gold medals in South Korea, taekwondo made its first Olympic – after defending her title in Rio five years ago. appearance as a demonstration sport at Seoul Olympic debutant Lauren Williams remembers 1988 and the aim is simply to kick and punch watching Jones fight in London from her family your opponent, while avoiding being kicked and caravan while on holiday, which inspired her to punched yourself. switch from kickboxing to taekwondo.

Points are scored for each blow landed, with the The 22-year-old now has aspirations to follow in more challenging techniques scoring more highly, Jones’ footsteps in the middleweight category, and the athlete with the greater points total at while is another member of Team the end of three, two-minute rounds is declared GB’s taekwondo squad that has proven her class the winner. The competition is a straight knockout on the world stage. elimination format, although the athletes that lose to the two eventual finalists in each weight class get a The 29-year-old took bronze in Rio and is a three- second chance to compete for one of two bronze time world champion in the women’s medals in the repechage. heavyweight division.

Taekwondo became a full medal sport at Sydney Mahama Cho – who moved to London from the 2000 and, this summer in Tokyo, athletes will be Ivory Coast when he was eight and gave up a competing for medals across eight weight classes career in football to focus on taekwondo – will also – four each for men and women. Those weight be returning in the men’s heavyweight division after classes are flyweight (-58kg for men and -49kg finishing fifth on his Olympic debut in Brazil. for women), featherweight (-68kg and -57kg) middleweight (-80kg and -67kg) and heavyweight Finally, 2019 world champion Bradly Sinden will be (+80kg and +67kg). making his Olympic debut in the featherweight category at the age of 22, after becoming Great Tokyo will also mark the first time that the sport will Britain’s first-ever male taekwondo world champion be contested at the start of the Games, unlike the when he claimed gold in Manchester two last five Olympics where it has been towards the years ago. end, in order to increase global viewership. Team GB are sending five fighters to Tokyo, with double Olympic featherweight champion Jade Jones leading the squad.

172 TAEKWONDO | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | TAEKWONDO 173 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

24 July 10.00-17.00 M 58kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals

W 49kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals

19.00-22.30 M ME 58kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

W ME 49kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

25 July 9.00-16.20 M 57kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals

W Individual Epée Round of 64, 32, 16 & Quarter-Finals

18:00-20.25 M ME 68kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

W ME 57kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

26 July 9.00-16.20 M 80kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals

W 67kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals

18:00-20.25 Team GB at the Olympic Games M ME 80kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

W ME 67kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

27 July 9.00-16.20 M 80kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals

67kg Round of 16, Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals Beijing 2008 1 W 18:00-20.25 M ME 80kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests

W ME 67kg Repechages, Bronze & Gold Medal Contests London 2012 1 1 Gold

Rio 2016 1 1 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 2 1 3 Bronze

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Athlete Bios Mahama Cho Lauren Williams Event: Men’s +80kg Event: Women’s -67kg

DOB: 16/08/1989 DOB: 25/02/1999 Hometown: London: Stockwell Hometown: Wales: Blackwood Previous Games attended: Rio 2016 Twitter: @LaurenW_TKD Twitter: @Chotimetkd Instagram: @laurenwilliamstkd Instagram: @chotimetkd Link for bio Link for bio

Jade Jones Bradly Sinden Event: Women’s -57kg Event: Men’s -68kg

DOB: 21/03/1993 DOB: 19 September 1998 Hometown: Wales: Bodelwyddan Hometown: South Yorkshire: Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Doncaster London 2012 Twitter: @tkdbradly Twitter: @jadejonestkd Instagram: @bradlysinden Instagram: @jadejonestkd Link for bio Link for bio

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Bianca Walkden Event: Women’s +67kg

DOB: 29/09/1991 Hometown: Merseyside: Liverpool Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @BiancaW_tkd Instagram: @biancawalkdentkd Link for bio

1 Staff Bios

Gary Hall Michael Harvey Adrian Lim Phil Sharma-Woodland Tom Turner Team Leader Coach Doctor Nutritionist Media Officer

Ben Harper Stephen Jennings Steve Peters Martin Stamper Physio Coach Psychologist Coach

176 TAEKWONDO | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | TENNIS 177 That came four years after the Scot beat legendary Swiss star Roger Federer in straight sets at London Tennis 2012 and also bagged a silver medal alongside Introduction Laura Robson in the mixed doubles on centre court. As an Olympic champion, the three-time Grand Tennis has been a smashing success at the summer Slam winner, now 34, automatically earned a place Olympics since returning as a full medal event at Tokyo 2020 despite his injury battles in recent in 1988. The sport was part of the inaugural 1896 years. Murray will play in the singles and the men’s Olympics, as well as the following six Games, but doubles, alongside Joe Salisbury, who is one of the was dropped in 1924 because of a dispute over best doubles players on the planet and will hope to how to define amateur players. add an Olympic medal to the mixed doubles title he won in June, having also claimed Tokyo 2020 will see 172 athletes compete across five the 2020 Australian Open men’s doubles crown. different events: singles and doubles for men and women, as well as the mixed doubles – all utilising Seven-time Grand Slam winner Jamie Murray is a straight knockout format. The event will be held at back for his fourth shot at the Olympic Games Ariake Tennis Park in the Japanese capital, which having also competed in the doubles at Rio 2016, boasts a fully retractable roof, and matches will be London 2012 and Beijing 2008. played on the usual Olympic surface of a hard court. He will be partnering Neal Skupski in Tokyo, whose preparations for the Games could hardly have The only exceptions to this were in 2012 when the been much better after winning the Wimbledon event was played on the grass at Wimbledon and mixed doubles title for his maiden Grand Slam. Liam in 1992 when the clay in Barcelona was used. Paris Broady will also be competing in his first Games, 2024 will reprise the use of clay by staging the while Heather Watson heads to her third Olympics. Olympic tennis at the home of the French Open, Roland Garros.

Team GB have won more tennis medals than any other country with 43 appearances on the Olympic podium and only trail USA with 17 golds to the Americans’ 21.

Sir Andy Murray has won three of those medals (two singles golds and a mixed doubles silver) and was Team GB’s flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony at Rio 2016, before going on to become the first male tennis player to successfully defend an Olympic title by beating Juan Martin del Potro in the final.

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

24 11.00-20.00 M Singles First Round,

July M Doubles First Round,

W Singles First Round,

W Doubles First Round

25 11.00-20.00 M Singles First Round,

July M Doubles First Round,

W Singles First Round,

W Doubles First Round

26 11.00-20.00 M Singles Second Round,

July M Doubles Second Round,

W Singles Second Round,

W Doubles Second Round

27 11.00-20.00 M Singles Second Round,

July M Doubles Quarter-Finals,

W Singles Third Round, Team GB at the Olympic Games W Doubles Second Round & Quarter-Finals

28 11.00-20.00 M Singles Third Round,

July M Doubles Semi-Finals,

W Singles Quarter-Finals,

W Doubles Quarter-Finals Atlanta 1996 1 M W Mixed Doubles First Round 29 11.00-20.00 M Singles Quarter-Finals

July W Singles Semi-Finals,

W Doubles Semi-Finals,

M W Mixed Doubles Quarter-Finals London 2012 1 1 30 12.00-20.00 M Singles Semi-Finals, July Gold M Doubles Bronze Medal & Gold Medal Matches

M W Mixed Doubles Semi-Finals Rio 2016 1 Silver 31 12.00-20.00 M Singles Bronze Medal Match

July W Singles Bronze Medal & Gold Medal Matches, M W Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match ALL-TIME TOTAL 17 14 12 Bronze 01 12.00-20.00 M Singles Gold Medal Match

Aug W Doubles Gold Medal Match

M W Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match

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Athlete Bios

Liam Broady Joe Salisbury

DOB: 04/01/1994 DOB: 20/04/1992 Hometown: : Greater Manchester: Hometown: : London: Stockport Twitter: @joesalisbury92 Twitter: @LiamBroady Instagram: @joesalisbury92 Instagram: @liambroady Link for bio Link for bio

Andy Murray Neal Skupski

DOB: 15/05/1987 DOB: 01/12/1989 Hometown: Scotland: Dunblane Hometown: Merseyside:Liverpool Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @nealskupski London 2012, Beijing 2008 Instagram: @nealskupski Twitter: @andy_murray Link for bio Instagram: @andymurray Link for bio

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Jamie Murray Heather Watson

DOB: 13/02/1986 DOB: 19/05/1992 Hometown: Scotland: Dunblane Hometown: Guernsey: Saint Peter Port Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, London 2012, Beijing 2008 London 2012 Twitter: @jamie_murray Twitter: @HeatherWatson92 Instagram: @jamie__murray Instagram: @heatherwatson92 Link for bio Link for bio

Staff Bios

Iain Bates Louis Cayer Dan Lewindon Lee Murgatroyd Team Leader Double Coach Physio Media Officer

Shane Annun Leon Smith Physio Women’s Coach Men’s Coach

182 TENNIS | ATHLETE BIOS TEAM PROFILES | TRIATHLON 183 Triathlon Introduction

Triathlon only became an Olympic sport at the turn of the century, making its debut in 2000, but has already become a firm favourite in the schedule.

Perhaps that is a result of Team GB’s success. After all, despite not winning a medal in each of triathlon’s first three appearances at the Games, Despite a strong tradition in triathlon on the Great Britain have the most successful record of any women’s side, Holland’s Rio bronze was Team GB’s nation in the sport. first women’s Olympic triathlon medal.

The event has not changed in the two decades In Tokyo, however, there will be three strong since its introduction, made up of a 1.5km swim, a contenders to add to that tally – all of whom are 40km bike ride and finally a 10km run. proven winners on the international stage. And these Olympics will also offer an extra route to the Only can match Team GB’s tally of two podium for the triathletes, with the introduction of golds, one silver and two bronzes, and in fact the the mixed relay. Brownlee family alone can claim to have a better record than every country other than the Swiss. The event will see two men and two women Alistair Brownlee won gold at London 2012 and compete on a course which consists of a 300m became the first triathlete in history to retain an swim, an 8km cycle and finally a 2km run. Olympic title four years later in Rio. That is obviously a much shorter distance for He was joined by brother Jonny on the podium on each of the competitors than the individual races, both occasions, with the younger Brownlee taking meaning the best sprinters could be the key bronze in London and upgrading to silver four years athletes in the mixed relay. later in Rio. Triathlon in Tokyo will be held at the Marine That trajectory is certainly promising and, in Tokyo, Park, which will also host the marathon Jonny will look to complete his Olympic medal set swimming events. after being selected for a third Olympic Games.

Brownlee was selected towards the end of 2020 alongside fellow Rio medallist Vicky Holland, as well as reigning world champion Georgia Taylor-Brown and 2019 world silver medallist Jess Learmonth.

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W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

26 July 6:30-9:00 M ME -Men’s Triathlon

27 July 6:30-9:05 W ME -Women’s Triathlon

31 July 7:30-9:25 W M ME -Mixed Relay Triathlon

Team GB at the Olympic Games

London 2012 1 1 Gold Rio 2016 1 1 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 2 1 2 Bronze

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Athlete Bios

Jonny Brownlee Jess Learmonth

DOB: 30/04/1990 DOB: 18/04/1988 Hometown: West Yorkshire: Leeds Hometown: West Yorkshire: Leeds Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Twitter: @Jess_Learmonth London 2012 Instagram: @jesslearmonth Twitter: @jonny_bronwlee Link for bio Instagram: @jonnybrownleetri Link for bio

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Alex Yee Vicky Holland

DOB: 12/01/1986 DOB: 18/02/1998 Hometown: Gloucestershire: Hometown: London: Brockley Gloucester Twitter: @Lixsanyee Previous Games attended: Rio 2016, Instagram: @lixsanyee London 2012 Link for bio Twitter: @VixHolland Instagram: @vixholland Link for bio

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Georgia Taylor-Brown

DOB: 15/03/1994 Hometown: Greater Manchester: Manchester Twitter: @georgiatb Instagram: @georgiatb Link for bio

Staff Bios

Mike Cavendish Glenn Coltman Emma Deakin Adam Elliott Team Leader Mechanic Physio Coach

Ben Bright Glenn Cook Gemma Field Laura Needham Coach Coach Media Officer Physiologist

188 TRIATHLON | ATHLETE & STAFF BIOS TEAM PROFILES | WEIGHTLIFTING 189 Athens 1896 as Launceston Elliot claimed Britain’s first, and currently only, gold in weightlifting. That Weightlifting victory came on the second day of the Games and Introduction also means Elliot holds the distinction of being Team GB’s first-ever Olympic champion. To some, being part of the Olympic Games since 1896 already makes weightlifting ancient, yet That came in the one hand category while he also the sport goes back much further than that.In picked up a silver in the two hand lift. Interestingly, ancient and Greece, weightlifting was used Elliot also represented his country in the 100m sprint, to measure strength and it wasn’t until the 1800s Greco-Roman wrestling and rope climbing at those when this display of raw power was seen as an Games, finishing third, fourth and fifth respectively. international sport.Added as an event at the 1896 Games in Athens, weightlifting has been a mainstay Elliot’s gold and silver are two of the seven medals at the Olympics since 1920, with 1900, 1908 and won by British athletes in weightlifting but Team GB 1912 the only modern Games at which it have form in Tokyo, as Louis Martin secured a silver hasn’t featured. in the middle-heavyweight category at the 1964 Games, having won bronze in Rome four Women have been permitted to compete since years earlier. Sydney 2000 and Tokyo marks the first time that men and women have had an equal number of weight Britain’s most recent medallist was David Mercer categories – seven. who won bronze in the same weight division at Los Angeles 1984, while four female lifters will represent Until 1920, all male athletes competed against each Team GB at Tokyo 2020 – seeking a first weightlifting other regardless of their weight and it was in 1924 medal this millennium.Emily Campbell will feature that the style of weightlifting we see today in the women’s +87kg having brilliantly secured the was introduced. European crown in Moscow earlier this year. Originally, the two categories were the one handed- lift and the two handed-lift but now there is only one At the same European Championships, Sarah Olympic weightlifting event which is split into two Davies earned Olympic qualification after picking rounds, ‘snatch’ and ‘clean and jerk’. A ‘snatch’ up a silver medal in the -64kg category. Emily lift is where the barbell is lifted from the ground Muskett also claimed European gold in Moscow to above the athlete’s head in one movement. and has been selected to her first Games in the Meanwhile, ‘clean and jerk’ requires competitors -76kg category. The quartet is rounded out by Zoe to lift the barbell to rest on their chest (the clean), Smith, who will be attending her second Olympics before raising it above their head to complete after coming 12th at London 2012 and missing out the jerk. on Rio 2016 due to injury, in the -59kg event.

Each athlete gets three attempts at each lift before the highest scores from each round are added together to decide the final positions. Team GB’s most successful performance came at

190 WEIGHTLIFTING | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION | WEIGHTLIFTING 191 Events Schedule

W = Women M = Men W M = Women & Men (Mixed Event) ME = Medal Event

Date Time Event

24 09.50-12.00 W 49kg Group B, July 13.50-16.00 W 49kg Group A,

25 11.50-14.00 M 61kg Group B, July M 67kg Group B, 15.50-18.00 M 61kg Group A, 19.50-22.00 M 67kg Group A

26 13.50-16.00 W 55kg Group B, July 19.50-22.00 W 55kg Group A,

27 11.50-14.00 W 59kg Group B, July W 64kg Group B,

15.50-18.00 W 59kg Group A, 19.50-22.00 W 64kg Group A

28 11.50-14.00 M 73kg Group B, July 19.50-22.00 M 73kg Group A,

31 11.50-14.00 M 81kg Group B, July Team GB at the Olympic Games M 96kg Group B, 15.50-18.00 M 81kg Group A, 19.50-22.00 M 96kg Group A,

01 13.50-16.00 W 76kg Group B, Aug 19.50-22.00 W 76kg Group A,

1 02 11.50-14.00 W 76kg Group B, Rome 1960 Aug 15.50-18.00 W 76kg Group A,

19.50-22.00 W +87kg Group A

03 13.50-16.00 M 109kg Group B, Aug Tokyo 1964 1 19.50-22.00 M 109kg Group A,

04 13.50-16.00 M 109kg Group B, Aug Gold 19.50-22.00 M 109kg Group A. Los Angeles 1984 1 Silver

ALL-TIME TOTAL 1 3 3 Bronze

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Emily Campbell Emily Muskett Event: Women’s 87kg+ Event: Women’s 76kg DOB: 06/05/1994 DOB: 22/10/1989 Hometown: Nottinghamshire: Hometown: Kent: Farnborough Nottingham Twitter: @EmilyGodley Twitter: @Brownskinjessie Instagram: @emilygbwl Instagram: @emilyjade_gb Link for bio Link for bio

Sarah Davies Zoe Smith Women’s 64kg Event: Women’s 59kg DOB: 19/08/1992 DOB: 26/04/1994 Hometown: Lancashire: Bilsborrow Hometown: London Greenwich Twitter: @sarahdavies1908 Previous Games attended: London 2012 Instagram: @sarahd_gb Twitter: @ZoePabloSmith Link for bio Instagram: @ZoePabloSmith Link for bio

Staff Bios

Stuart Martin Dave Sawyer Team Leader Coach

Andrew Callard Craig Davies Coach Media Officer

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