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Team GB s best gold medal hopes: After Adam Peaty win, Dina Asher-Smith among top Tokyo Olympic athletes to watch

Adam Peaty is a red hot favourite for another gold in the pool Credit: AP Team GB returned from the last Olympics in Rio with an impressive haul of 67 medals, making it the most successful Games for Great Britain since 1908. This time around, Team GB named a delegation of 376 athletes in Tokyo - the biggest for an overseas Games - but while over 50 medals is the target, there is a a degree of managing expectations this summer. Funding body UK Sport has strayed from setting a specific medal target given the lack of recent international competition. However, there is a general expectation that the team will be strong enough to surpass the 51 medals secured in Beijing in 2008. But a downturn in previously strong medal sports like cycling and gymnastics is likely to see the team come up short of Rio s total.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 medal table: how it works, plus Team GB s bronze and silver winners so far

Tokyo Olympics 2020 medal table: how it works, plus Team GB s bronze and silver winners so far Are the United States likely to prove as dominant as ever and can Team GB possibly improve on their second place from Rio 2016? 26 July 2021 • 12:28pm Charlotte Dujardin won one of 27 Team GB gold medals at the Rio Olympics Credit: JULIAN SIMMONDS Team GB have set themselves the target of remaining at least in the top five of the Olympic medal table, but have suggested that this generation may peak in Paris in 2024 when more than two-thirds of the team are rated as medal prospects.

Team GB 2021: Meet the British athletes competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Who are Team GB s athletes to watch Team GB is represented by its largest ever delegation for an Olympic Games on foreign soil, with 376 athletes and a further 22 reserve athletes competing across 26 sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games. It is second only to the 541 athletes selected for the London Olympics in 2012. For the first time in its 125-year history, Team GB has also taken more women than men to a summer Olympic Games. Of the 376 athletes selected, Team GB took 201 female (53.5%) and 175 male athletes (46.5%) to Tokyo thanks to impressive qualification performances from British female athletes across sports and an increased number of female events at the Games.

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