Canada at the Summer Olympics became the first Canadian Summer Olympian to win a medal in four straight Olympics. After George Hodgson won two gold medals in the 1912 Stockholm games, it would be 72 years before Alex Baumann became the second Canadian swimmer to win Olympic gold, when he won both individual medley events in world record time in the 1984 Los Angeles games. Victor Davis (1984), Anne Ottenbrite (1984), Mark Tewksbury (1992) and Penny Oleksiak (2016) are the only other Canadian swimmers to win gold medals. In 2004, Canada failed to win a medal of any colour in swimming for the first time
Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics 1916), George Wilkinson and Charles Sydney Smith (both 1904-1912), rower Steve Redgrave (in men's coxless pair from 1988 to 1996)) and sailor Ben Ainslie (in the Finn class between 2004-2012). Kenny was immediately followed onto this list by a seventh 'three-peat', fellow cyclist Ed Clancy, who sealed his third consecutive team pursuit gold medal. Indeed, Clancy and Kenny, along with American road cyclist Kristin Armstrong (in women's time trial) became the first three cyclists to ever achieve the feat. Cyclist Laura Trott also won two gold medals to become Britain's most successful all time female Olympian with a total of