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 to her home, but she is hoping to add to that tally. While World Champion Molly Caudery hopes to add an Olympic pole vault gold to her collection of high-profile victories.
Here are all the Cornwall athletes competing in the 2024 Olympics
Athletics
Molly Caudery (Illogan)
The next stop on pole vaulter Molly Caudery’s meteoric rise is a first Olympic Games. The Redruth native showed signs of things to come with European U20 and U23 silver before a series of injuries halted her progress on the senior stage.
In front of a home crowd, the Loughborough-based athlete delivered Commonwealth silver at Birmingham 2022 and she has become a vaulter for the big occasion.
Fifth place at the 2023 World Championships with a personal best followed and she has since shattered that multiple times both indoors and outdoors, with a World Indoor title and outdoor national record setting her up perfectly for Paris 2024.
August 5 – Pole Vault Qualifying
August 7 – Pole Vault Final (6pm)
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Rowing
Helen Glover (Penzance)
Helen Glover is one of Britain’s greatest-ever rowers. With more than 20 gold medals to her name, she is a two-time Olympic, three-time world and five-time European champion.
Alongside partner Helen Stanning, the rower broke Olympic, World Cup and European records in the women’s coxless pair.
Just four years after the Cornish athlete took up rowing, Glover and Stanning won Team GB’s first gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Glover was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year’s Honours List. Glover and Stanning remained undefeated through the entire four-year cycle leading up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games 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, partnering Polly Swann. By racing to fourth place at the 2020 Games, Glover became the first Team GB rower to compete at an Olympics after having children.
Glover will compete at her fourth Olympics as part of the women’s four.
July 28 – Women’s Fours Heats
August 1 – Women’s Fours Final
Morgan Bolding (Withiel)
When double men’s eight world 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 has had to overcome challenges in the sport that would have deterred those with less resilience and spirit, but he pulled through thanks to the unwavering support of his family and club coaches and the Withiel man has been determined to repay the faith ever since.
At 16, Bolding moved to Walton Rowing Club, Surrey, competing at the men’s eight Junior World Rowing Championships two years later but it was at Oxford Brookes University where his talent would blossom, leading to Morgan’s selection for the national team in April 2019 and as a reserve for Tokyo 2020.
After forming part of the first-ever GB Men’s eight to complete a season undefeated in 2022 and winning successive World Championships in 2022 and 2023, Bolding will be desperate to add Olympic silverware this summer.
July 29 – Men’s Eights heats
August 3 – Men’s Eights final
Sailing
Sam Sills (Launceston)
Naval architect Sam Sills has designs on Olympic success on debut at Paris 2024. The windsurfer missed out on selection at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, stepping away from the sport to contribute to reducing its carbon footprint.
Sills has worked on emissions-free electric boats in Norway with ZEM energy and helped develop eco-friendly prototypes in Sweden. The former junior world champion returned to sailing after the Olympic windsurfing equipment changed from RS:X to iQFOiL.
He hit a purple patch in early 2023, winning the prestigious Trofeo Princesa Sofia and going on to qualify his boat for the Games with fifth at August’s World Sailing Championships. His sister, Saskia, is also a windsurfer and has been 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 Junkyard skatepark and the nearby Cereal Bowl became 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 the Olympic Qualifier Series.
August 6 – Women’s Park Skateboarding
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