Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics five entrants in the four disciplines. Included were two reigning Olympic track cycling champions, Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins, plus a further two medal winners from 2004, as well as several reigning track world champions. Great Britain won fourteen cycling medals (eight gold, four silver and two bronze) in total to top the cycling medal table. The Cycling team won the BBC Sports team of the year award and was nominated for Laureus World team of the year. On the track Mark Cavendish was the only member of the squad of fourteen not to win at least one medal. Chris
South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics South Korea competed (as "Korea") at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This is a list of all of the South Korean athletes who qualified for the Olympics and their results. South Korea sent a delegation of 267 athletes to these games. North and South Korea had initially intended to send a joint delegation to the Games, but were unable to agree on the details of its implementation. (See North Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics.) The South Korean contingent aimed for ten gold medals and to be ranked in the top