Tokyo Olympics: Jonny Brownlee and friends take gold in triathlon mixed relay

When it comes to swimming, cycling and running in rapid succession the British really are rather good at this.

On paper they were certainly favourites; the only nation to come into this inaugural Olympic triathlon mixed relay with four athletes who finished inside the top ten in the individual events. But the British quartet executed their race quite brilliantly here at the Odaiba Marine Park, securing Team GB’s seventh gold medal of these Games.

For Jonny Brownlee, on the second leg and able to hand a commanding lead to Georgia Taylor-Brown, it represented a glorious end to a long, eventful Olympic journey.

In London in 2012 he took bronze behind his elder brother, Alistair, after incurring a 15-second penalty for climbing on his