I think we've got all of those building blocks, notwithstanding we've got another 12 months to build on that. I know that we are medal-competitive in a significant number of sports. Womens Road Race - Cycling Road Tokyo 2020 Replays Road cycling at UCI Cycling World Championships 2023: the courses. 'So top European nation, top five are our aspirations. Team GB chef de mission Mark England said: 'I think we've got a great opportunity to be the top European nation again, despite the fact that the home nation is very, very strong and getting stronger for a whole variety of reasons.

The International Olympic Committee is still fine-tuning its stance on athletes from those countries.

Russian and Belarusian competitors were not included in the calculations because of uncertainty over their participation. 'British success over the past three Olympic Games has been built on having medal winners in at least 20 sports and the initial virtual media table forecast suggests that this is set to continue.' Gold medals could be significantly down, though, as the British team are on just 15 golds in this initial prognosis. 'Gracenote's virtual media table forecasts a drop of just two medals to 62. 'Britain is expected to come close to sustaining its performance in Tokyo,' said data analysts Gracenote Nielsen. The forecast does have GB team golds in sports including men's and women's rowing and equestrian eventing, with multiple silver and bronze team medals across the athletics relays, swimming and cycling disciplines.

However, European 200m champion Zharnel Hughes is among those not included in the medal count, despite being considered among the favourites at this year's World Athletics Championships having run the fastest 100m time this year.Īmong nine swimming medals, two-time Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty is expected to take silver - as is Tom Dean in the 200m freestyle.ĭean recently took silver at the World Aquatics Championships behind fellow Briton Matt Richards, who is not included among the predicted medals.Įlsewhere, reigning Olympic men's mountain bike champion Thomas Pidcock has not been included among seven cycling medals, nor has men's pommel horse gold medallist Max Whitlock in gymnastics. World 1500m champion Jake Wightman and women's bronze medallist Laura Muir are forecast to win bronze and silver respectively in Paris, while Dina Asher-Smith is predicted to take 200m bronze. Keely Hodgkinson in the 800m, Bethany Shriever in the BMX, Jessica Gadirova and Bryony Page in gymnastics and Bradly Sinden in the taekwondo are some of the other athletes projected to take gold. The Gracenote forecast predicts 10 individual gold medals including skateboarder Sky Brown, 15. Britain won 65 medals at London 2012, 67 in Rio 2016 and 64 in Tokyo 2020, having failed to reach 60 in any single Games in 100 years before that.

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