Did Great Britain Ever Win Winter Gold?
Gerda Schowalter
2025-04-23 20:22:14
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An eight-strong team of British male curlers claimed the first ever Team GB Olympic Winter Games gold medal. Team GB men’s hockey team shocked the world when they beat Canada to the gold medal. After winning bronze in the ladies singles figure skating at St Moritz 1948, Jeannette Altwegg went onto enjoy an ever greater Olympic moment when she skated to gold at Oslo 1952. The Innsbruck Games ended a 12 year wait for Team GB to win a medal, with Tony Nash and Robin Dixon taking gold in the Men’s Bobsleigh race. Robin Cousins won gold in figure skating at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, keeping the men’s title in Britain for a second successive games. Over 24 million people tuned in to watch Torvill and Dean be crowned as Olympic ice skating champions who scored maximum points for their free dance performance of Ravel’s Bolero. Team GB’s women curlers secured the country’s first Winter Olympics Gold medal in 18 years.
Haylie Douglas
2025-04-23 19:27:33
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History was made in 1924, as the first ever Olympic Winter Games was held at Chamonix and produced the very first gold for Great Britain. The men’s curling team came out on top, securing a gold medal victory over Sweden in the final.
Jeannette Altwegg had already tasted success as an Olympic figure skater, achieving a bronze at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz. However, it was at Oslo 1952 she would skate into the record books – becoming the first British woman to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Games.
At Salt Lake 2002, Great Britain’s women led by skipper Rhona Martin, secured the country’s first Winter Olympics gold for 18 years with a famous curling victory.
Eldora Wintheiser
2025-04-23 18:22:04
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Great Britain won gold at the 1964 Olympics, with Tony Nash and Robin Dixon achieving the ultimate accolade in the 2-man bob in Innsbruck. That success was preceded by a silver medal in the inaugural Games when Ralph Broome, Thomas Arnold, Alexander Richardson and Rodney Soher finished second behind their Swiss counterparts in the French resort of Chamonix. Great Britain were awarded a retrospective bronze medal in 2019 after the disqualification of two Russian sleds from the Sochi Games in 2014.
Yvette Labadie
2025-04-23 16:56:17
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From 1896 to 2016 inclusive, Great Britain has won 847 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, and another 26 at the Winter Olympic Games.
It is the only national team to have won at least one Gold Medal at every Summer Games, and lies third globally in the winning of both Gold Medals and total medals, surpassed only by the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Lolita Swaniawski
2025-04-23 16:09:08
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Team GB have had their best ever result at a Youth Winter Olympic Games after winning six medals - four of them gold! The 16-year-old became the third Brit to win gold at a Winter Youth Olympic Games and the first-ever to win an alpine skiing medal for Team GB at any Olympic event. Callie Soutar and Ethan Brewster earned mixed doubles curling gold on the final day of competition with a narrow 7-6 victory over Denmark. The team of Logan Carson, Tia Laurie, Holly Burke and Archie Hyslop became Team GB's first-ever Youth Olympic mixed team curling champions, also beating Denmark in the final.
Dallas Kautzer
2025-04-23 15:31:43
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Great Britain have won a total of 10 gold medals in the Winter Olympics and 26 medals in all.
Did you know? Great Britain won Olympic gold in ice hockey at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games.
Lizzy Yarnold won gold for Great Britain in 2014.
Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold won skeleton gold at Sochi.
The team also won gold in ice hockey at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games.
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