It is exactly two years until Los Angeles 2028 gets underway and the countdown has begun for the next crop of athletes looking to make their mark.
While established names like Keely Hodgkinson, Tom Pidcock and Duncan Scott will hope to shine on the Olympic stage once more, there will be plenty of new faces ready to take the Games by storm.
So with just 24 months to go until the Opening Ceremony at the Los Angeles Coliseum and the Stadium in Inglewood, we have picked out 10 emerging talents who could be front and centre come 2028:
Josh Charlton (track cycling)
Josh Charlton announced himself to the world at the end of 2024 when he broke a world record and came away with a silver medal from his first World Championships in Denmark.
He upgraded that individual pursuit silver to gold a year later in Santiago, Chile, and is now a key member of the team pursuit quartet.
In Paris, Team GB came away with a silver in the team pursuit and Charlton will hope to play an important role as they look to get back onto the top step of the podium as they did three times between Beijing and Rio.
Success Eduan (athletics)
Success Eduan is a rising force in athletics who shows no signs of slowing down.
Eduan was crowned British 200m champion last month, beating world silver medallist Amy Hunt to take her first UK title.
It continued her impressive record that saw her win the European U23 title in 2025, as well as shine at the World Relays.
The 21-year-old has achieved all of this while studying to be a midwife and could be a true global threat by the time LA28 swings around.
Ruby Evans (gymnastics)
Welsh whizz Ruby Evans has already made history at just 19 and will be looking for more at Los Angeles 2028.
Evans became the first Welsh gymnast to win a World Championship medal when she took floor silver in 2025.
It was a continuation of her budding talent that saw her represent Team GB at Paris 2024 aged just 17.
World silver was a true breakthrough, however, as she also finished 10th in the all-around competition.
She will now be targeting LA28, where she will aim to be just the third British woman to win an individual Olympic artistic gymnastics medal.
Cat Ferguson (road cycling)
With two years to go until LA28, Cat Ferguson is currently recovering from a double ankle fracture suffered at the Giro d’Italia Women.
But that has been one of the first setbacks for the 20-year-old, who has swept almost all before her to this point.
In 2024, she won a pair of world titles on both the road and the track and by Los Angeles, the former competitive skier could challenge on both fronts.
Ella Gibson (archery)
The introduction of compound archery to the Olympic programme is perfect timing for Ella Gibson.
The 26-year-old is a leading force in the discipline, with a host of World Cup stage victories to her name.
She took bronze in the World Cup final in 2025 to add to her pair of European titles and will be eyeing an Olympic bow in Los Angeles.
Gibson is the current world record holder over 36 arrows and knows bringing her best form in Los Angeles could earn a first British archery medal since Athens 2004.
Kimani Jack (athletics)
He may be one of the athletes to have emerged most recently on this list, but Kimani Jack’s potential is through the roof.
Jack came through the university system, winning indoor and outdoor BUCS high jump titles at the University of Birmingham and is now in the form of his life in 2026.
A clearance of 2.31m at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial would have been good enough for a medal at last year’s World Championships, while Jack followed that up with a second place on his Diamond League debut in Monaco when he cleared 2.30m.
The men’s high jump has provided some of the standout moments of recent Games and Jack will hope to be part of the latest edition.
Sam Leaver (canoe slalom)
Sam Leaver will get the perfect dress rehearsal for the LA28 this month when he heads to Oklahoma City for the Canoe Slalom World Championships.
In the same venue as the Games, he will be looking to claim a first senior World Championship medal having won four golds over the last three years at U23 level.
Leaver followed up a European bronze medal with his first two World Cup titles in kayak cross and kayak cross individual and will look to continue Team GB’s rich recent history in canoe slalom where current teammate Joe Clarke has led the way.
Erin McNeice (sport climbing)
Already an Olympian, Erin McNeice finished fifth in the women’s combined in Paris but will hope to arrive in Los Angeles as a contender for gold.
The format of climbing in 2028 will change as each of speed, bouldering and lead will be contested separately.
And while Slovenia’s double Olympic champion Janja Garnbret will take some catching, McNeice has built on her Olympic debut with an overall World Cup title in lead climbing in 2025 and a first bouldering win in Madrid in May to sit top of the standings with one competition left to go.
Filip Nowacki (swimming)
Team GB can already lay claim to the greatest male breaststroke swimmer of all time, and while Adam Ramsay-Peaty is aiming for a fourth Olympic appearance in Los Angeles, he has a rising star pushing him all the way on his own team.
Still only 18, Filip Nowacki enjoyed a stellar 2025 when he won European and world junior titles over both 100m and 200m breaststroke, beating Japanese prodigy Shin Ohashi in the latter.
In 2026, he won the British 200m breaststroke title and finished second to Peaty over 50m and 100m, and should only get better by LA.
Ruby White (boxing)
‘Pocket rocket’ Ruby White has big dreams in the boxing ring.
The 19-year-old has enjoyed a stellar junior career that included winning the inaugural world under-19 title in 2024 and is a four-time European champion.
Her success continued at the prestigious Golden Girl Championships in Sweden, where she took the title and sealed her status as one of the world’s most exciting young boxers.
The 19-year-old will make her senior Games debut for England at the Commonwealth Games this summer, before aiming to tread a well-worn path to her Olympic debut at LA28.
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