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The Paris Olympics and Paralympics is coming soon!

The West of England has a long connection to the Games and athletes from our region will once again be represented this summer.

The Olympics is also a great time to try something new and get involved in local sports. By using this map, you can find out where you can play the Paris 2024 sports in our local communities. There’s a huge range of activities you can get involved in, so take a look and sign up to something today!

Click or tap pins to explore, or expand the menu at the top left to filter by sporting category or region.

To add your sports club or venue email comms@westofengland-ca.gov.uk.

Have you been inspired to try something new?

If you or your family are inspired to try out any new sports during Paris 2024, download and print a certificate of achievement. Signed by Mayor Dan Norris, your certificate will make a great addition to the family fridge or cork board!

A history of Olympic success

The West of England has long been represented at the Olympics and Paralympics. Our region's athletes have consistently achieved great success for Team GB. Below are just a few examples of people who have made history and done our region so proud in the past.

Edith Hannam at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Summer 1912 Edith Hannam
Edith Hannam, born in Bristol, was a tennis player for Great Britain. She won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, for both the Women’s Singles indoor tournament and the Mixed Doubles indoor tournament.
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Summer 1924 Freddie Guest
Freddie Guest won Bronze with the British Polo team at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris while being a Member of Parliament. As well as other constituencies, he served as the MP for Bristol North from 1924 to 1929. Image Credit: The Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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1968 David Hembrow
David Hembrow was the first athlete from the University of Bath’s Team Bath to compete at the Olympics, in the 4 x 100m freestyle swimming in the 1968 Mexico City Games.
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1980 Robin Cousins
Robin Cousins was born in Bristol to a father who was previously the goalkeeper for Millwall F.C. He won Gold in figure skating at the 1980 Olympics in New York and was awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the same year.

Team Bath 2024 hopefuls

Since the University of Bath was founded in 1966, it has been at the forefront of sporting success in the West of England. Athletes who have trained as part of Team Bath have been achieving Olympic and Paralympic success for decades.

With selections for TeamGB entering their final stage, find out more about some of our local hopefuls from Team Bath who are looking to compete in Paris this summer!

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Swimming Freya Anderson
Tokyo 2020 gold-medallist Freya, who trains in Bath, is heading to her second Olympic Games after being selected in the Team GB swimming squad for Paris 2024. Freya has built on a stellar junior career, which saw her win World and European titles, to become one of the world’s leading freestyle swimmers and she will be looking to add to her impressive haul of 29 senior medals this summer. Image credit: University of Bath
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Pentathlon Joe Choong
Joe has cemented his status as one of the world’s best all-round athletes by following up his historic modern pentathlon Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 – the first won by a British man – with back-to-back World Championship titles. The second of those crowns was secured in August 2023 at the University of Bath, which has been home to Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre since 1998. Joe, all set for his third Olympics in Paris, has trained there since 2013. Image credit: University of Bath
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Pentathlon Kerenza Bryson
Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza is on course to compete at her first Olympic Games this summer after securing a host of podium places during the past 12 months, including World Championships bronze at her University of Bath training base last summer. The current British Army Sportswoman of the Year, Kerenza is also a Maritime Troop Commander Reserve Officer. Image Credit: Lloyd Russell - University of Plymouth, Provided by University of Bath.
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Category A Épée Piers Gilliver
Piers will go to Paris as the reigning Paralympic, World and European Champion in Category A epee, a discipline in which he has been world number one for the past decade. Prolific in sabre and team events too, Piers has won an incredible 70 international medals since he started training full-time at the University of Bath in 2015 – the programme has gone from strength to strength since then, with the custom-built Wheelchair Fencing National Training Centre being officially opened in December 2022. Image credit: University of Bath
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Swimming Kate Shortman & Izzy Thorpe
Hengrove-based artistic swimmers Kate and Izzy will return to their second Olympic Games this summer as history-makers after winning Great Britain’s first-ever Duet medals at a World Championships in February – Technical silver and Free bronze. Kate, who studies International Management and Modern Languages (French) at the University of Bath, also broke new ground for Britain at the 2023 World Championships by winning Solo Free bronze. Image credit: LEN 0623_5, University of Bath
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Swimming Tom Dean
Tom became the first male British swimmer in 113 years to win two gold medals at the same Olympic Games when he won the 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay titles in magnificent style at Tokyo 2020. A member of the hugely-successful Aquatics GB Performance Centre squad at the University of Bath, Tom has added multiple World, European and Commonwealth medals to his collection since then and is targeting more silverware in Paris this summer after being officially selected in the Team GB squad. Image credit: University of Bath.