Great_Britain_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics

Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation


Great Britain competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 58 competitors in 11 sports. They won five medals in total, one gold and four bronze, ranking 19th in the medal table.

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Medallists

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There were a number of notable firsts for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics:[3]

  • Day 8 (17 February) was the most successful day for Great Britain at any Winter Olympics, with three medals won.
  • Lizzy Yarnold was the first British athlete to retain a Winter Olympic title and, in doing so, became Great Britain's most successful Winter Olympic athlete by surpassing the single gold and bronze medals won by Jeannette Altwegg, Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill.[4]
  • Yarnold and Laura Deas were the first British athletes to win medals in the same event at the same Winter games.
  • Izzy Atkin won Great Britain's first-ever medal on skis.
  • On Day 15 (24 February) Great Britain won a fifth medal at a single Winter Olympics for the first time.[note 1]

Records

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Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.[1][note 2]

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Medal and performance targets

On 9 January 2018, the funding body UK Sport announced their medal targets for Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang with the target to win at least five medals which if achieved would be a record-breaking haul for a Winter Olympic Games.[8] Although the target was set at three medals the funding body predicted that Great Britain had the potential to win as many as ten medals, this total was not widely expected to be reached.

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UK Sport funding

In the Winter Olympic Cycle running from 2014 to 2018 the UK government body UK Sport allocated a record budget of over £28 million to fund Team GB for the individual athletes as well as the bobsleigh and curling teams for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.[8] The sports receiving the highest funding were bobsleigh, curling and skeleton, whilst speed skating, ski and snowboard, and figure skating also received funding, but all other winter sports where British athletes were competing did not receive any funding from the body.

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Alpine skiing

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Mixed
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* = decided on tie-break (combined time)

Biathlon

On 22 January 2018, the British Olympic Association announced Amanda Lightfoot as the selection for their solitary representative in the Biathlon competitions.[9] Lightfoot finished 67th in the sprint event, failing to qualify for the pursuit in which only the top 60 sprint athletes took part.[10]

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Bobsleigh

Based on their rankings in the 2017-18 World Cup, Great Britain qualified 4 sleds.[11][12][13]

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Sam Blanchet and Montell Douglas were travelling reserves

Cross-country skiing

Andrew Musgrave's seventh place in the men's 30 km skiathlon was the best performance by a Briton in an Olympic cross country event.[14]

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Sprint
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Curling

Great Britain qualified a men's and women's team for a total of 10 athletes (five of each gender). The teams were officially announced on 22 June 2017.[15] Outside of the Olympic Games, Great Britain competes under the flags of its constituent home nations, Scotland, England and Wales (Northern Irish players compete for a combined Ireland); Scotland results are treated as Great Britain for the purposes of Olympic qualification.[16]

Summary
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Men's tournament

Based on results from the 2016 and 2017 World Championships obtained by Scotland, Great Britain qualified a men's team, consisting of five athletes, as one of the seven highest ranked nations.[17][18]

Team
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Round-robin

Great Britain had a bye in draws 4, 7 and 11

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Draw 1

Wednesday 14 February, 09:05

Draw 2

Wednesday 14 February, 20:05

Draw 3

Thursday 15 February, 14:05

Draw 5

Friday 16 February, 20:05

Draw 6

Saturday 17 February, 14:05

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Draw 8

Sunday 18 February, 20:05

Draw 9

Monday 19 February, 14:05

Draw 10

Tuesday 20 February, 09:05

Draw 12

Wednesday 21 February, 14:05

Tiebreaker

Having finished tied for fourth with the same record in the round robin stage the Great Britain men's team faced a tiebreaker against Switzerland for a place in the semifinals.[19]

Thursday February 22, 9:05

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Women's tournament

Based on results from the 2016 and 2017 World Women's Curling Championships, Great Britain qualified a women's team, consisting of five athletes, as one of the seven highest ranked nations.[20][21]

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Round-robin

Great Britain had a bye in draws 4, 8 and 12

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Draw 1

Wednesday 14 February, 14:05

Draw 2

Thursday 15 February, 09:05

Draw 3

Thursday 15 February, 20:05

Draw 5

Saturday 17 February, 09:05

Draw 6

Saturday 17 February, 20:05

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Draw 7

Sunday 18 February, 14:05

Draw 9

Monday 19 February, 20:05

Draw 10

Tuesday 20 February, 14:05

Draw 11

Wednesday 21 February, 09:05

Semifinal

Friday 23 February, 20:05

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Bronze Medal Game

Saturday 24 February, 20:05

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Figure skating

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Freestyle skiing

Aerials
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Halfpipe
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Ski cross
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Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Slopestyle
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Luge

On 18 January 2018, the British Olympic Association announced the selection of the athletes who will compete for Team GB in the luge in Pyeongchang.[22] American-born Adam Rosen competed in the luge for Great Britain in his third Olympics.

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Short track speed skating

Great Britain qualified five short track speed skaters (two male and three female) based on results at the 2017–18 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup.[23][24][25]

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Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); Q = Qualify to next round; OR = Olympic record

Skeleton

Based on the world rankings, Great Britain qualified 4 sleds.[26][27]

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Snowboarding

Freestyle
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Snowboard cross
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Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round NB: Katie Ormerod qualified for both the big air and slopestyle competitions, but was forced to withdraw after suffering a broken heel in training prior to the start of the games.[7]

Notes

  1. The GBR-1 team in the Four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics retrospectively received a bronze medal following disqualifications of two Russian crews, giving Great Britain five medals from that Olympics.[5]
  2. The final team selected for the Games had numbered 59, but snowboarder Katie Ormerod was forced to withdraw after suffering a broken heel in training the day before the opening ceremony.[7]

References

  1. "Meet the team: record number of athletes selected for PyeongChang 2018". British Olympic Association. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Opening Ceremony Flagbearers - Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). olympic.org. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 9 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. "Winter Olympics: Lizzy Yarnold defends skeleton gold as Laura Deas takes bronze". BBC Sport. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  4. "Lizzy Yarnold takes skeleton gold to make Winter Olympics history for Britain". Guardian. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  5. "Olympic bobsleighers: The four Britons who waited five years for bronze". BBC Sport. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  6. Staniforth, Mark (10 February 2018). "Elise Christie into 500m short-track quarter-finals after winning heat at Winter Olympics 2018". London Evening Standard. Evening Standard Ltd. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  7. "Winter Olympics: Katie Ormerod ruled out of Games in Pyeongchang". BBC Sport. 8 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  8. "Winter Olympics 2018:Biathlete Amanda Lightfoot". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  9. "Lightfoot to push on after matching best Olympic finish for female biathlete". Eurosport. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  10. "Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 - 2-man Bobsleigh - IBSF 14 January 2018" (PDF). International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  11. "Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 - 4-man Bobsleigh - IBSF 14 January 2018" (PDF). International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  12. "Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 - Women´s Bobsleigh - IBSF 14 January 2018" (PDF). International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  13. "Winter Olympics: GB's Andrew Musgrave finishes seventh in skiathlon". BBC Sport. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  14. "Muirhead and Smith to skipper Team GB's curling rinks at PyeongChang 2018". TeamGB.com. British Olympic Association. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  15. "2018 Winter Olympics: GB men secure curling place". BBC Sport. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  16. "Eight men's teams set for 2018 Olympic Games as hosts complete round-robin undefeated". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 6 April 2017. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  17. "2018 Winter Olympics: GB men secure curling place". BBC Sport. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  18. "Curling: First Eight Women's Curling Teams Set for 2018 Olympic Winter Games". www.aroundtherings.com/. Around the Rings. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  19. "Great Britain's curling team seal 2018 Winter Olympics spot". Sky Sports. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  20. Taylor, Paul (12 December 2017). "Elise Christie will be on the plane to Korea for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games with Team GB". Nottingham Post. Nottingham, England. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  21. "Five short track speed skaters selected for PyeonChang 2018". British Olympic Association. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  22. "Women's slopestyle qualification canceled". Reuters. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

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