Rio Olympics 2016 Medal Table: Great Britain Maintains A Firm Grip On Second Place

The Welsh Taekwondo star marked a scintillating victory in the 57kg final of Rio Olympics and marked his name on the gold medal to extend Team GB’s tally to 22 golds.After being kept away from even a single medal on Wednesday, Team GB set off with a kick start on thursday, by claiming silver medal in the 200m kayak double and bronze medal in the men’s badminton doubles.

The Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonny continued their glorious run and eventuallytook home gold and silver in the triathlon. The elder brother Alistair ended up retaining his Olympic title from London 2012.

On the other hand, the younger sibling Jonny marked his nameonsilver medal and carried his legacy forward from four years ago to take second spot.

And Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark finally cleaned up the gold medal that was already assured to take Great Britain onto 21 in the sailing categoryright after the postpone event of their medal race due to ugly wind conditions.

It happened to be an amazing news after a slow day on Wednesday, but post the recent gold shower,  with the Brits hanging strongly on in second place, before moving further ahead on Thursday.

However the bad news came when the Sprint star Adam Gemilicouldn’t win the bronze and missed it by whiskers, a heartbreaking 0.003 seconds as Usain Bolt dominated in the 200m and claimed gold.

The team United States is on their course of remaining a long way to go out in front with 35 gold medals and 100 overall medals after another strong showing in athletics. It’s nothing new as far as US is concerned. On the other hand, China have 20, and are also losing out to Britain with 16 silvers to 21. Brits have pleased their supporters with a steady performance in Rio Olympics 2016. Nicola Adams also celebrates after progressing through to Saturday’s final.

It is sure shot that Great Britain will end up claiming at least a medal in the women’s hockey on Friday after theybooked their place in the gold medal match with a win over New Zealand. British women’s team won hearts with this victory.

Team Great Britain also have Nicola Adams’ boxing final to look forward to in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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