Athletes from Cornwall are going to the 2024 Olympic Gold Games

The 2024 Paris Olympics are almost here – and there are some Cornwall athletes heading to France with the hope of returning with a gold medal.

Rower Helen Glover already has two gold medals home but hopes to add to that tally. While world champion Molly Caudery hopes to add an Olympic pole vault gold to her collection of high-profile wins.

Here are all the athletes from Cornwall competing at the 2024 Olympics

Athletics

Molly Caudery (Illogan)

The next stop on pole vaulter Molly Caudery’s meteoric rise is her first Olympic Games. The Redruth native showed signs of coming away with U20 and U23 European silverware before a series of injuries halted his progress on the senior stage.

In front of a home crowd, the Loughborough athlete delivered Commonwealth silver at Birmingham 2022 and became a springboard for the big occasion.

Fifth place at the 2023 World Championships, with a personal best in pursuit and has since broken that multiple times, both indoors and outdoors, with a world indoor title and a national outdoor record, preparing it perfectly for Paris 2024.

August 5 – Pole vault qualification

August 7 – Pole vault final (18:00)

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Rowing

Helen Glover (Penzance)

Helen Glover is one of Britain’s greatest rowers. With over 20 gold medals to her name, she is a two-time Olympic champion, three-time world champion and five-time European champion.

Along with partner Helen Stanning, the rower broke the Olympic, World Cup and European records in the women’s coxless pair.

Just four years after the Cornwall athlete took up rowing, Glover and Stanning won Team GB’s first gold medal at the London 2012 Olympics and Glover received an MBE in the 2013 New Year’s Honors List. Glover and Stanning went unbeaten in the entire four-year run leading up to the 2016 Rio Olympics and successfully defended their title in Brazil.

Glover, from Penzance, retired after the Games and had three children, but returned to the boat in 2021 in partnership with Polly Swann. Competing fourth at the 2020 Games, Glover became the first Team GB rower to compete at the Olympics after having children.

Glover will compete in her fourth Olympics as part of the women’s four.

July 28 – Series of four women

August 1 – Final for four women

Morgan Bolding (Withiel)

When two-time men’s world eight champion Morgan Bolding represents his country in Paris this summer, he will arrive in the French capital with a sense of unfinished business.

Raised by his grandparents after being taken into care at the age of six, Bolding had to overcome sporting challenges that would have deterred those with less stamina and spirit, but he succeeded thanks to the unwavering support of his family and of club coaches. and the Withiel man was determined to repay the faith ever since.

At 16, Bolding moved to Walton Rowing Club, Surrey, competing in eight World Junior Men’s Rowing Championships two years later, but his talent would blossom at Oxford Brookes University, leading to Morgan’s selection for national team in April 2019 and as a reserve for Tokyo 2020.

After being part of the first GB men’s eight to complete an unbeaten season in 2022 and winning back-to-back World Championships in 2022 and 2023, Bolding will be desperate to add Olympic silverware this summer.

July 29 – Men’s heats of eight

August 3 – men’s eight final

Navigation

Sam Sills (Launceston)

Naval architect Sam Sills projects Olympic success on debut at Paris 2024. The windsurfer missed out on selection for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, quitting the sport to help reduce his carbon footprint.

Sills worked on zero-emission electric boats in Norway with ZEM energy and helped develop green prototypes in Sweden. The former world junior champion returned to sailing after the Olympic windsurfing equipment changed from RS:X to iQFOiL.

He hit a purple patch at the start of 2023, winning the prestigious Trofeo Princesa Sofia and going on to qualify his boat for the Games with fifth place at the World Sailing Championships in August. His sister Saskia is also a windsurfer and was part of the British Sailing Team.

July 28-30 – Men’s windsurfing series races

August 2 – Men’s windsurfing final race

Skateboarding

Lola Tambling (Saltash)

Lola Tambling’s skateboarding journey began when she was seven years old and her parents opened a skatepark in Saltash.

The nearby Junkyard Skatepark and Cereal Bowl have become second homes for Tambling, who discovers new tricks through social media and is homeschooled.

Tambling was crowned British national champion in 2022 and went viral with her reaction to finishing sixth at the 2023 World Championships in Sharjah.

The teenager secured a place at Paris 2024 through consistent performances on the World Skateboarding Tour and Olympic Qualifier Series.

August 6 – Women’s Park Skateboarding

Read more: Cornish skateboarding wonder chosen for Paris Olympics

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