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
Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics hole after a close contest with Ryder cup teammate, Henrik Stenson of Sweden. There was also some success for Great Britain in team sports when in the first week of competition Great Britain captained by Tom Mitchell won silver in the inaugural men's rugby sevens tournament after losing to Fiji 43-7 in the gold medal match and in the second week Great Britain captained by Kate Richardson-Walsh went unbeaten and won the country's first gold medal in a team sport at a Summer Olympics for twenty eight years when they beat the Netherlands in the gold medal match 2-0 on