What are Team GB's most successful Olympic sports?

The 2024 Summer Olympics are currently underway in Paris.

More than 10,000 of the world's best athletes are in the French capital hoping to become Olympic champions.

They include 327 from Great Britain who will be competing across 26 sports.

But which events have Team GB traditionally done best in? Keep reading to find out!

Athletics

Athletics has featured at every Summer Olympics since the beginning of the international Olympic Games, which first took place in 1896.

It includes a number of different events - everything from the 100 metres to the long jump, heptathlon and the marathon.

Team GB sit third on the all-time athletics table.

Many of Team GB’s most memorable Olympic moments include athletics events.

'Super Saturday' was the name famously given to Team GB's most successful day at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

British track and field athletes Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford all managed to win gold in their respective events in the space of less than an hour - in front of a packed Olympic Stadium.

Rowing

Rowing is another sport that Team GB have performed well at in recent Games.

Great Britain topped the rowing medal table at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016 - but they failed to win a gold at Tokyo 2020.

However, they have rebuilt their team since the last Olympics and have the current world champions in the men's four, men's eight, women's lightweight double sculls and women's quadruple sculls.

Did you know, Team GB's rowing team at the Paris Olympics features brother and sister Tom and Emily Ford, who are competing in the eights!

Sailing

Great Britain are the most successful nation in sailing at the Olympics, winning 64 medals including 31 gold over the year.

Great Britain topped the sailing medal table at the last Olympics in Tokyo - with three gold, one silver and one bronze - and they'll be hoping to repeat their success this summer too.

In fact Great Britain, along with France and Germany, are the only countries to have qualified a boat in all 10 events at the Paris Games.

Swimming

Could swimming be Team GB's most successful sport at this summer's Olympics?

After a record haul of eight medals in Tokyo, their 33-strong talented team has a chance of beating that number in the pool and on the Seine in Paris.

Britain boast some of the best male freestylers in the world including Adam Peaty, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott.

Freya Colbert is the women's 400m medley world champion while Hector Pardoe won bronze in the 10km open water race at this year's world championships.

Tennis

Tennis has been a permanent fixture since 1988 and an Olympic title is now seen by some to be as important as a Grand Slam.

Team GB has won 43 medals in tennis at the Olympics, which is more than than any other nation in the history of the Games.

Sir Andy Murray is the only player to have won two Olympic singles gold medals and the only singles player to have retained the Olympic title - after winning back-to-back golds at London 2012 and Rio 2016!

He has a total of three Olympic medals, having also won silver in the mixed doubles with Laura Robson at London 2012.

Track Cycling

Track cycling at the Olympics takes place on a 250m round track in a bowl-shaped arena called a velodrome.

It consists of six events, all of which are contested by both men and women.

Great Britain has won the most medals in Olympic track cycling history with 79 (33 gold).

Team GB's Sir Jason Kenny is the most successful cyclist in Olympic history from any country, while his wife Dame Laura Kenny is the most successful female cyclist.

Sir Jason has won nine Olympic medals including seven gold, and Dame Laura has won has six Olympic medals, five of them gold.

Triathlon

Triathlon was first introduced to the Olympics at Sydney 2000.

There are individual events for men and women, as well as a mixed relay which sees a team of two men and two women take on a short-course triathlon.

Great Britain is the most successful triathlon nation at the Olympic Games.

Team GB have won three golds, including victory in the first-ever mixed relay event in Tokyo when Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee finished top of the podium.