first gold medal to GB

Foggy · Post by **Foggy** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:34 am

Nicole Cooke wins gold for Great Britain in the women's road race

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:26 am

It was the first ever medal from a British female cyclist, the first gold from a Welsh athlete since 1972, and Great Britain's 200th gold medal in Olympic history.

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:51 am

A second gold and a bronze in swimming! A girl local to me won the gold!

Rebecca Adlington became the first British woman to win Olympic swimming gold for 48 years with a brilliant victory in the 400 metres freestyle in Beijing on Monday.

And team-mate Joanne Jackson also took bronze in a thrilling finish to see Britain match their total medal haul from Athens in 2004 in a single race.

Adlington snatched gold ahead of American Katie Hoff, winning by 0.07 seconds in a time of four minutes 3.22secs with Jackson third in 4:03.52s.

The 19-year-old from Mansfield is the first British woman to claim gold since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960.