Weekend of glory as Team GB wins 17 medals
Updated on 17 August 2008
Cyclist Rebecca Romero claimed a piece of sporting history as Great Britain climbed to third place in the Olympic medal table.
Romero won the women's pursuit event four years after she won a siver medal at the rowing regatta in Athens and she became the first-ever British woman to win medals in two separate summer Olympic sports.
She beat her Great Britain team-mate Wendy Houvenaghel in the final.
Romero said: "To become an Olympic champion puts you on a different level to everyone else.
"I was thinking in the Olympic village, when you're one of the best athletes in the country it feels like you're good at something.
"But then you go and mix it up with 6,000 of the best athletes in the world and you're nothing unless you become Olympic champion."
Chris Hoy won gold in the keirin cycling event on Saturday, with team-mate Ross Edgar claiming silver and Bradley Wiggins won gold in the men's individual pursuit and Steven Burke took the bronze and Chris Newton also won a bronze in the men's points race.
In the sailing regatta, Ben Ainslie won gold in the Finn class and Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson won gold in the Yngling class.
In the rowing regatta, Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter won gold in the men's lightweight double sculls while Tom James, Steve Williams, Pete Reed and Andy Triggs won gold in the men's fours.
There were silver medals for the men's eight of Alex Partridge, Tom Stallard, Tom Lucy, Richard Egington, Josh West, Alastair Heathcote, Matt Langridge, Colin Smith and cox Acer Nethercott and for the women's quadruple sculls team of Annie Vernon, Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger.
Matthew Wells and Stephen Rowbotham won bronze in the men's double sculls and Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington won bronze in the women's double sculls.
In the swimming pool, Rebecca Adlington won gold in a world record time in the 800 metres freestyle and teenager Louis Smith won bronze on the pommel horse in the gymnastics.
