Team GB will bring home more than 60 medals
A LATE flurry of success saw Team GB beat its 60-medal target with wins in the pool, diving, on the track and in taekwondo.
There were bronzes for diver Noah Williams, 30, in the 10m platform, Georgia Bell in the 1500m, and in the 4x400m men's and women's relay.
The men's relay team was Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matt HudsonSmith, Lewis Davey and Charlie Dobson. The women's was Victoria Ohuruogu, Laviai Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin and Amber Anning.
There was also artistic swimming silver for Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe the first time Britain has won a medal for that sport. And taekwondo star Caden Cunningham was also guaranteed at least a silver in the +80kg category. British Olympic Association bosses previously said they were looking for any medal total "that begins with a six".
We have won more than 60 in the past three Games 65 at London 2012, with a record 29 gold; 67 at Rio, an overall record in the modern era; and 64 at Tokyo, with 22 gold, 20 silver and 22 bronze. Cunningham, 21, beat Ivorian world champion Cheick Cisse to reach the final.
Cunningham nearly did not take up the sport. His good looks meant his mum encouraged him to be a model.
He did a photoshoot for GQ which described him as a "menswear king". But his dad took him kickboxing before Cunningham, of Huddersfield, West Yorks, focused on taekwondo.
Success could help make him a millionaire. Keely Hodgkinson, 22, who won the 800m, is tipped to earn millions in contracts thanks to her dream Olympics.
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