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Team GB Winter Olympics 2018 squad: The 58 British athletes competing in Pyeongchang | London Evening Standard

Great Britain have sent its largest ever Winter Olympics team to this Pyeongchang, with 59 athletes selected to compete in South Korea, though snowboarder Katie Ormerod has since withdrawn after fracturing a heel in a crash in practice.

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Team GB Winter Olympics 2018 squad: The 58 British athletes competing in Pyeongchang | London Evening Standard
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Great Britain have sent its largest ever Winter Olympics team to this Pyeongchang, with 59 athletes selected to compete in South Korea, though snowboarder Katie Ormerod has since withdrawn after fracturing a heel in a crash in practice.

Team GB will be hoping to surpass the best-ever return of four medals - achieved in Chamonix in 1924 and four years ago in Sochi - for the Games which run from February 9-25.

Short track speedskating world champion Elise Christie heads a number of strong British medal contenders in Pyeongchang and UK Sport has set a target of at least five medals.

Lizzy Yarnold led the way in Sochi, winning gold in the women's skeleton. Jenny Jones won snowboard bronze and the men's and women's curling teams claimed silver and bronze respectively.

The Sochi medal tally could yet rise if the men's bobsleigh team is awarded a retrospective bronze as a result of ongoing hearings into Russian doping.

Team GB had a team of 56 in Sochi and 50 in Vancouver four years earlier.

Great British team in full…

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Alpine skiing (4)

  • Dave Ryding (above), 31, Leyland, Lancashire, men's slalom.
  • Laurie Taylor, 22, Basingstoke, Hampshire, men's slalom.
  • Charlie Guest, aged 24, from Perth, Scotland, women's slalom.
  • Alex Tilley, 24, Torphins, Scotland, women's giant slalom and slalom.
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Biathlon (1)

  • Amanda Lightfoot, 30, South Shields, women's 7.5km sprint.
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Bobsleigh (10)

Men's:

Pilots:

  • Lamin Deen (above), 36, London.
  • Brad Hall, 27, Crawley.

Brakemen:

  • Greg Cackett, 28, Betchworth.
  • Joel Fearon, 29, Coventry.
  • Nick Gleeson, 21, Colchester.
  • Andrew Matthews, 33, Slough.
  • Toby Olubi, 30, London.
  • Ben Simons, 30, Shrewsbury.
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Women's:

  • Mica McNeil (above) (pilot), 24, Consett.
  • Mica Moore (brakewoman), 25, Newport.
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Cross-country skiing (4)

  • Andrew Musgrave (above), 27, Poole, multiple cross country.
  • Callum Smith, 25, Inverurie, Scotland, multiple cross country.
  • Annika Taylor, 24, Truckee, USA, multiple cross country.
  • Andrew Young, Huntly, Scotland, multiple cross country.
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Curling (10)

Men's team:

  • Kyle Smith (skip), 24 born Perth.
  • Cammy Smith, 23, born Perth.
  • Kyle Waddell, 23, born Bellshill, lives Hamilton.
  • Thomas Muirhead, 22, born Perth, lives Crieff.
  • Glen Muirhead (alternate)

Women's team:

  • Eve Muirhead (above) (skip), 27, born Perth, lives Stirling.
  • Anna Sloan, 26, born Dumfries, lives Stirling.
  • Vicki Adams, 27, born Edinburgh, lives Stirling/Stranraer.
  • Lauren Gray, 25, born Glasgow, lives Glasgow.
  • Kelly Schafer (alternate), 36, born Dundee, lives Swift Current, Canada.
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Figure skating (2)

Ice Dancing:

  • Nick Buckland, 28, Nottingham.
  • Penny Coomes, 28, Ascot.
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Freestyle skiing (11)

  • James Woods, 26, Sheffield, men's slopestyle.
  • Tyler Harding, 21, Halifax, men's slopestyle.
  • Izzy Atkin, 19, from Boston, USA, women's slopestyle.
  • Katie Summerhayes (above), 22, Sheffield, women's slopestyle.
  • Murray Buchan, 26, Edinburgh. men's halfpipe.
  • Peter Speight, 25, Sheffield, men's halfpipe.
  • Alexander Glavatsky-Yeadon, 23, Hong Kong, men's halfpipe.
  • Rowan Cheshire, 22, Stoke, women's halfpipe.
  • Molly Summerhayes, 20, Sheffield, women's halfpipe.
  • Lloyd Wallace, 22, Bath, men's aerials.
  • Emily Sarsfield, 34, Durham, women's ski cross.
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Luge (2)

  • Adam Rosen (above), 33, New York, men's singles event.
  • Rupert Staudinger, 20, Konigssee, Germany, men's singles event.
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Short track speed skating (5)

  • Elise Christie (above), 27, Edinburgh, women's 500m, 1000m, 1500m.
  • Charlotte Gilmartin, 27, Redditch, women's 500m, 1000m, 1500m.
  • Kathryn Thomson, 21 (22 on Friday January 26), Kilmarnock, women's 500m, 1000m, 1500m.
  • Farrell Treacy, 22, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, men's 1000m.
  • Joshua Cheetham, 25, Nottingham, men's 1000m.
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Skeleton (4)

Women's:

Men's:

  • Dominic Parsons, 30, London.
  • Jerry Rice, 27, High Wycombe.
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Snowboarding (6)

  • Billy Morgan, 28, Southampton, men's slopestyle.
  • Jamie Nicholls, 24, Bradford, men's slopestyle.
  • Rowan Coultas, 20, Bedford, men's slopestyle.
  • Katie Ormerod, 20, Brighouse, women's slopestyle INJURED.
  • Aimee Fuller (above), 26, Belfast, women's slopestyle.
  • Zoe Gillings-Brier, 32, Douglas, Isle of Man, women's snowboard cross.

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