steve redgrave
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, Great Britain has won the most Summer Olympic medals in athletics (188 medals), swimming (65 medals), cycling (63 medals), and rowing (54 medals) and has won the most Winter Olympic medals in figure skating (15 medals), bobsled (4 medals), and skeleton (4 medals).
great Britain have won 244 silver medals at the Olympics
Great Britain won a total of 9 gold medals, 9 silver, and 12 bronze. The United States won the most medals for a grand total of 102.
The United States won the most with 46 gold medals. China won 38 gold medals. Great Britain won 29 gold medals.
Steve Redgrave.
Great Britain
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, Great Britain has won the most gold medals (50) in athletics. They have won the second most gold medals (24) in rowing and the third most (20) in sailing.
Through the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, 24. Ben Ainslie has won the most sailing gold medals for Great Britain with 3.
Great Britain won more medals in cycling.
At the 2008 Games in Beijing, that was Cycling where Great Britain won 14 medals (8 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze).
Great Britain has won 3 medals in football at the Olympics, all gold. They won gold in 1900, 1908, and 1912.
Great Britain was one of 14 teams to compete in the first Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics, and has competed at every Games. Athletes representing Great Britain have won 715 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, and another 22 at the Winter Olympic Games. Great Britain is the only team to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Games. The most successful British Olympian by gold medals won is Steve Redgrave, who won five consecutive gold medals; in the Coxed four in 1984 then Coxless pair 1988 to 1996 and finally Coxless four in 2000. Redgrave and cyclist Bradley Wiggins are the most bemedalled British Olympians with six medals each.