GREAT BRITAIN’S Olympians won another eight medals in Beijing yesterday – just a day after they took nine to record their best performance in a single day for 100 years.
Both Saturday and Sunday yielded four golds to take Team GB third in the medal table with 11.
Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson took the first gold medal yesterday in the sailing in Qingdao before Ben Ainslie won gold for the third Games running.
In rowing, the lightweight double sculls pairing of Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter produced a superb race and were comfortable winners ahead of Greece.
But Rebecca Romero produced the greatest Olympic achievement as she won the women’s individual pursuit.
Romero went into the record books as the first British woman to win medals in two different Olympic sports, having won silver in rowing in Athens.
On Saturday Rebecca Adlington added the 800m freestyle to her 400m triumph in world record time, while cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy both won their races at the Laoshan Velodrome.
The rowing crew of Steve Williams, Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Tom James ensured Britain were coxless fours champions for the third Games in a row.
