Emma Finucane took her third medal of the Paris Olympics in the women’s individual sprint in the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, as Team GB’s cyclists fell well short of the gold medal tally of the Tokyo Games.
Despite being at her first Olympics, Finucane has been the linchpin of seven days of track racing, winning gold in the team sprint on day one, bronze in the keirin and, on the final day, bronze in the individual sprint. Her achievement made her the first British woman in 60 years to win a hat-trick of medals in a single Olympic Games, since Mary Rand’s gold, silver and bronze in 1964.
