Paris 2024: York's Sam Dickinson helps Team GB to mixed relay bronze

Dickinson, Alex Yee, Beth Potter and Georgia Taylor-Brown had initially been awarded the silver medal, but saw it downgraded to bronze after a dramatic photo finish.

Britain had won the race’s inaugural gold in Tokyo, but despite being handed a lead for the final leg, Potter lost out to Germany’s Laura Lindemann and the United States’ Taylor Knibb in the final straight.

Lindemann finished in a time of 1:25:40, with Potter and Knibb just one second behind the new Olympic champions.

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Concerns over the water quality in the River Seine had forced the postponement of the Men’s Triathlon last week, but today’s race – comprising legs of a 300m swim, 7km bike and 1.8km run - was fortunately able to go ahead.

Newly crowned Olympic champion Alex Yee led Team GB off the start line, and after emerging among the leaders, he did well to avoid a crash involving silver medallist Hayden Wilde and home favourite Pierre Le Corre as the bike leg reached its conclusion.

Injecting pace during the run, he was able to hand Taylor-Brown a three second lead over Germany, with Switzerland two seconds further behind.

She was able to extend that to seven seconds after her swim and 12 seconds after the bike leg, but Germany’s Lisa Tertsch was able to narrowly overtake her at the end of the run, with Dickinson taking over the reins one second behind.

Dickinson, who piloted Yee to gold on Wednesday, withdrew from the Men’s Triathlon at the start of the run to save his legs for today’s relay, and was first to start the bike leg after a rapid first transition.

Joined by German Lasse Luehrs, the pair eked out a 17 second lead on the bike, with the former St Peter’s School pupil first to leave the final transition.

“On paper he [Luehrs] is probably the better athlete, but I know Sam is up for this race,” said former triathlon medallist Vicky Holland during the run.

“He’s been preparing specifically to try and run a really fast 1.8 kilometres and I know he’ll give absolutely everything to give us the best chance for Beth Potter.

“He’s left everything out there on the streets of Paris.”

Luehrs struggled to stay with the pace as Dickinson laid down a ferocious pace at the end of his final leg to hand Potter a five second lead.

Dickinson pulled away in a ferocious end to his run to hand Britain a slender lead going into the final leg. (Image: PA)

Potter, who took bronze in the Women’s race, was caught by both Lindemann and Knibb on the bike, setting up a thrilling finish as the trio jostled for the gold in the run.

She though could not match Lindemann’s final kick, finishing almost in tandem with Knibb.

Whilst not the gold that they had hoped for, Team GB have now taken medals in all three of the triathlon races in Paris.