Going for gold!

Well, team GB have returned home from the Rio Olympics as conquering heroes, second in the medal table to the USA.

To discover what brought some of these amazing gold medal winning athletes to the peak of their sport check out the sport biography sections in the library or reserve online:

Torfaen Libraries Catalogue

Mo Farah - Athletics, Men’s 5,000m & 10,000m

Farah became only the second man to retain the 5,000m and 10,000m titles as he triumphed in both events in Rio. He is also the first British track and field athlete to win four Olympic gold medals and Britain's most successful Olympic track and field athlete of all time.

Jade Jones - Taekwondo, Women’s 57kg

The Welsh girl retained her Olympic taekwondo title - winning GB's 22nd gold of the 2016 Games. At London 2012 Jade won GB's first Olympic gold medal in the sport and is the current European champion.

Andy Murray - Tennis, Men’s singles

Murray became the first tennis player to win two Olympic singles titles by beating Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in Rio.

Bradley Wiggins - 

Cycling, Men’s Team Pursuit 

Sir Bradley Wiggins is the first Briton to win eight Olympic medals with victory in the men’s team pursuit in a new world record time. Wiggins together with Ed Clancy, Owain Doull and Steven Burke completed the 4km race in three minutes 50.265 seconds to beat Australia by almost a second.