Great Britain’s Emma Finucane won her third medal of Paris 2024 to finish her first Olympics as Team GB’s most successful athlete at the Games.
The 21-year-old track cyclist added bronze in the women’s sprint on Sunday to gold in the women’s team sprint and bronze in the women’s keirin.
She also becomes the first British woman to win a hat-trick of medals at a single Games in 60 years, since Mary Rand also won three in 1964.
The Welsh rider was tipped to be a star for Team GB before the Olympics by track legends Chris Hoy and Laura Kenny and she becomes the only British athlete to win three medals in Paris.
Finucane won the world title in the women’s sprint in Glasgow last year to announce herself as one to watch ahead of Paris but hopes of winning Olympic gold were dashed by New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews in the semi-finals.
Finucane bounced back to defeat Hetty van de Wouw in the bronze medal final, winning both races to secure a place on the podium behind the champion Andrews and Germany’s Lea Friedrich.
Finucane won gold in the team sprint alongside Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell earlier this week, smashing the world record in the gold medal race against New Zealand to win Britain’s first Olympic women’s sprint title.
Her British team-mate Jack Carlin had the chance to join Finucane on three medals but crashed out in the final of the men’s keirin on the last day of action at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome.
Carlin won silver in the men’s sprint and bronze in men’s team sprint.
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