Team GB's Emma Finucane writes British Olympic history with triple medal haul at Paris 2024
With one gold and two bronze medals at Paris 2024, Emma Finucane has achieved something no British woman has done in almost a century.
The 21-year-old Team GB track cyclist comes off the back of a dream debut Olympic Games, winning gold as part of the women’s team sprint followed by two more individual medals.
Thanks to her track cycling bronze in the women’s keirin on the final day of competition, Finucane has become the first British woman to win three medals in one Olympic Games since Amsterdam 1928.
The last person to achieve that for Great Britain was swimmer Margaret Joyce Cooper, who won a silver and two bronzes 96 years ago in the Dutch capital.
Four years later and making her second Olympics appearance, Cooper won bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
It has taken almost a century for someone to repeat the feat, and it comes courtesy of the Welsh cyclist in her Olympic debut.
Finucane won the women’s sprint bronze by winning two races out of a best-of-three competition, beating Hetty van de Wouw of the Netherlands to take bronze.
She had finished just behind the Dutch cyclist in her other bronze-medal display in the women’s keirin, first winning gold in the women’s team sprint final on 8 August.