Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ...

competed at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

in Pyeongchang,

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, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 58 competitors in 11 sports. They won five medals in total, one gold and four bronze, ranking 19th in the

medal table The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic ...

Medallists

There were a number of notable firsts for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics: *Day 8 (17 February) was the most successful day for Great Britain at any Winter Olympics, with three medals won. *

Lizzy Yarnold Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE (born 31 October 1988) is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympia ...

was the first British athlete to retain a Winter Olympic title and, in doing so, became Great Britain's most successful Winter Olympic athlete by surpassing the single gold and bronze medals won by Jeannette Altwegg, Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill. * Yarnold and

Laura Deas Laura Deas ( ; born 19 August 1988) is a British sportswoman, best known as a skeleton racer on the World Cup circuit, representing the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. She won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Sout ...

were the first British athletes to win medals in the same event at the same Winter games. * Izzy Atkin won Great Britain's first-ever medal on skis. *On Day 15 (24 February) Great Britain won a fifth medal at a single Winter Olympics for the first time.

Records

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Medal and performance targets

On 9 January 2018, the funding body

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announced their medal targets for

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at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang with the target to win at least five medals which if achieved would be a record-breaking haul for a Winter Olympic Games. Although the target was set at three medals the funding body predicted that Great Britain had the potential to win as many as ten medals, this total was not widely expected to be reached.

UK Sport funding

In the Winter Olympic Cycle running from 2014 to 2018 the UK government body

allocated a record budget of over £28 million to fund

for the individual athletes as well as the bobsleigh and curling teams for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The sports receiving the highest funding were

bobsleigh Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...

and skeleton, whilst

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skatin ...

ski A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partia ...

and snowboard, and

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are m ...

also received funding, but all other winter sports where British athletes were competing did not receive any funding from the body.

Alpine skiing

;Mixed * = decided on tie-break (combined time)

Biathlon

On 22 January 2018, the British Olympic Association announced

Amanda Lightfoot Amanda Lightfoot (born 30 January 1987) is a British biathlete who competes in the IBU Cup. Lightfoot was born in Coventry. She took up the sport after first learning to ski at the age of nineteen. She is a Sergeant clerk in the Adjutant Gener ...

as the selection for their solitary representative in the Biathlon competitions. Lightfoot finished 67th in the sprint event, failing to qualify for the pursuit in which only the top 60 sprint athletes took part.

Bobsleigh

Based on their rankings in the 2017-18 World Cup, Great Britain qualified 4 sleds. * – Denotes the driver of each sled
Sam Blanchet and

Montell Douglas Montell Marcelle Douglas (born 24 January 1986) is a British sportswoman. Originally a sprinter and former British record holder for the 100 metres at 11.05 seconds. In 2016, she took up bobsleigh and became part of the Great Britain women's tw ...

were travelling reserves

Cross-country skiing

Andrew Musgrave's seventh place in the men's 30 km skiathlon was the best performance by a Briton in an Olympic cross country event. ;Distance ;Sprint

Curling

Great Britain qualified a men's and women's team for a total of 10 athletes (five of each gender). The teams were officially announced on 22 June 2017. Outside of the Olympic Games, Great Britain competes under the flags of its constituent home nations, Scotland, England and Wales (Northern Irish players compete for a combined

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); Scotland results are treated as Great Britain for the purposes of Olympic qualification. ;Summary

Men's tournament

Based on results from the

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and 2017 World Championships obtained by Scotland, Great Britain qualified a men's team, consisting of five athletes, as one of the seven highest ranked nations. ;Team ;Round-robin Great Britain had a bye in draws 4, 7 and 11 ;Draw 1 ''Wednesday 14 February, 09:05'' ;Draw 2 ''Wednesday 14 February, 20:05'' ;Draw 3 ''Thursday 15 February, 14:05'' ;Draw 5 ''Friday 16 February, 20:05'' ;Draw 6 ''Saturday 17 February, 14:05'' ;Draw 8 ''Sunday 18 February, 20:05'' ;Draw 9 ''Monday 19 February, 14:05'' ;Draw 10 ''Tuesday 20 February, 09:05'' ;Draw 12 ''Wednesday 21 February, 14:05'' ;Tiebreaker Having finished tied for fourth with the same record in the round robin stage the Great Britain men's team faced a tiebreaker against Switzerland for a place in the semifinals. ''Thursday February 22, 9:05''

Women's tournament

Based on results from the

and

2017 World Women's Curling Championship The 2017 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as CPT World Women's Curling Championship 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was a curling event held between March 18–26 at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. The winning Rachel Hom ...

s, Great Britain qualified a women's team, consisting of five athletes, as one of the seven highest ranked nations. ;Team ;Round-robin Great Britain had a bye in draws 4, 8 and 12 ;Draw 1 ''Wednesday 14 February, 14:05'' ;Draw 2 ''Thursday 15 February, 09:05'' ;Draw 3 ''Thursday 15 February, 20:05'' ;Draw 5 ''Saturday 17 February, 09:05'' ;Draw 6 ''Saturday 17 February, 20:05'' ;Draw 7 ''Sunday 18 February, 14:05'' ;Draw 9 ''Monday 19 February, 20:05'' ;Draw 10 ''Tuesday 20 February, 14:05'' ;Draw 11 ''Wednesday 21 February, 09:05'' ;Semifinal ''Friday 23 February, 20:05'' ;Bronze Medal Game ''Saturday 24 February, 20:05''

Figure skating

Freestyle skiing

;Aerials ;Halfpipe ;Ski cross Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round ;Slopestyle

Luge

On 18 January 2018, the British Olympic Association announced the selection of the athletes who will compete for Team GB in the luge in Pyeongchang. American-born

Adam Rosen Adam Joseph Rosen (April 12, 1984 – December 19, 2021), often known as AJ Rosen, was an American-British Olympic luger, the nation's best, who debuted in 2003.2017–18 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup. Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); Q = Qualify to next round; OR = Olympic record

Skeleton

Based on the world rankings, Great Britain qualified 4 sleds.

Snowboarding

;Freestyle ;Snowboard cross

Notes

References

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Nations at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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