You can pack at lot of sport into 365 days of a year, and with it, a lot of British success.
As 2025 draws to a close, we are looking back at some of the biggest moments of Olympic sport over the last 12 months.
From World champions to record breakers and history makers, British athletes have gone above and beyond this year with Olympic qualification and silverware on the line.
So get ready to dive head first into the first six months of 2025.
JANUARY
British athletes rang in the New Year with a slew of medals across several winter sports.
Matt Weston picked up Team GB's first medal of 2025 with back-to-back golds at the Skeleton World Cup to surpass fellow Brit Marcus Wyatt at the standings summit ahead of the final weekend of action.
Team Hall secured their first Bobsleigh World Cup gold in two years when they became the first non-German crew to win in Winterberg since 2012.
The four-man crew of Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Greg Cackett and Arran Gulliver started together for the first time in 13 months after an injury-blighted 2023/24 season but the quartet more than made up for lost time when they took to the ice for gold in Germany.
Teenage star Mia Brookes started her 2025 with back-to-back Big Air wins, scoring 184.25 in Klagenfurt to take top spot a month after doing the same in Beijing.
Her run of form continued with another win and an early birthday present when she took gold in the women's snowboard slopestyle event at the 2025 Laax Open.
FEBRUARY
February screamed European success for British athletes.
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson became three-time European medallists with ice dance bronze in Tallinn where a score of 206.02 saw them return to the podium.
On the snow, Zoe Atkin claimed her first World Cup win since 2019 in the women's freeski halfpipe before going on to share the overall Crystal Globe for the season alongside China’s Li Fanghui.
"My first World Cup was when I was 16 and I haven't won since, so it's always been one of my goals," she said.
Weston and Wyatt achieved a British one-two in men's skeleton World Cup overall standings, with the former making history by becoming the first British man to retain the Overall World Cup title as he backed up last season’s maiden success.
Continuing their return to form in the sled, Hall and Lawrence made history in the bobsleigh by winning Britain's first two-man bobsleigh medal in 57 years, with European bronze, backing it up with bronze in the four-man later in the competition.
Dave Ryding's sixth place in the men's slalom at the Alpine World Championships was GB's best ever finish for a male in the competition in the last 91 years. The last British man in the top six was CH Hudson in 1934.
While summer sport still shone as British Cycling clinched an incredible 11-strong medal haul at the European Track Cycling Championships, including golds for Anna Morris and Josh Charlton in the individual pursuit.
MARCH
Atkin capped off a stellar campaign on the slopes with halfpipe victory at the 2025 Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Engadin.
Left chasing the pack in her second and final run, Aktin kept her cool to land a 93.50 run to secure her third individual World Championships medal, having claimed bronze in 2021 and silver in 2023.
In Boston, ice dancers Fear and Gibson wrote their names in the record books by winning Great Britain's first World Championship medal in figure skating for 41 years.
Dancing to a Beyonce medley, the duo followed Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean onto the podium, dazzling the judges with bronze.
"I cried non-stop," said Fear. "I can't even describe my feelings. I'm still shaking. It's a dream come true, and I'm in disbelief. But I'm so grateful for the results."
Weston and Wyatt were at it again on the skeleton track, placing first and second respectively at the World Championships in Lake Placid.
Weston took the world crown with a powerful performance on the ice, setting a new track record of 52.80s in his third run before finishing nearly two seconds ahead of the field after all four runs.
Wyatt said: “I can hardly speak. Team GB on one and two, a crazy day. My favourite moment of the season. I was really disappointed after my third run and dropping a spot but now I’m over the moon.”
Charlotte Bankes took home silver in the women's snowboard cross at the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Switzerland, collecting her first individual World Championships medal since a 2021 gold.
While Kirsty Muir marked her return from injury with a first-ever freestyle ski World Cup slopestyle victory in Tignes.
APRIL
As the winter season ended and the summer sports began, April saw Team GB make history around the world.
On the ice, Scotland's Team Mouat made history in the World Men's Curling Championship after a dramatic 5-4 defeat of Switzerland in Canada.
The quartet of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan Jr took home gold against Yannick Schwaller's rink, capturing a second World Championship crown.
Great Britain’s sailors raised the curtain on the 2028 LA Olympic Games qualifying cycle with five gold medals at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia.
ILCA 7 star Micky Beckett led the way with a record fourth consecutive triumph in his class while double Olympic bronze medallist Emma Wilson took top spot in the Women's iQFOiL windsurfer category.
Emily Campbell became the first female weightlifter to win five consecutive European titles after totalling 281kg in the 87+kg category.
Competing in Moldova, Campbell, a two-time Olympic medallist, made it a full house of lifts on the day to signal her return from rehab after missing out on the World Championships through injury.
She said: "I'm definitely, very happy. You can't really grumble when you have a six from six performance and it's pretty comfortable."
An all-star cast of Olympians led the way for Team GB at the London Marathon, including Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee, who recorded 02:11:08 to place 14th overall on his marathon debut.
Mahamed Mahamed was the top Brit after clocking in at 2:08:52 to finish ninth while in the women’s event, Eilish McColgan finished eighth on debut after recording 2:24:25, surpassing mum Liz's best time over the distance.
MAY
The World Athletics Relays saw the four-woman band of Amy Hunt, Nia Wedderburn-Goodison, Bianca Williams and Success Eduan clinch gold in the women's 4x100m after clocking a time of 42.21.
Eduan, 20, produced a stunning anchor leg on her senior debut to power past Olympic gold medallists Shericka Jackson and Twanisha Terry and take victory.
“I don’t even know what happened – I just went past them. That is all I did," said Eduan.
Golden girls and history makers 🥇🥉
— Team GB (@TeamGB) May 12, 2025
Britain's women's 4x100m team clinched GOLD as the mixed 4x100m took BRONZE in the event's debut at the World Relays 😍
Looking RELAY strong @BritAthletics 💪 pic.twitter.com/RJsiW0k8uk
In Leipzig, Great Britain continued their sterling record at the European Gymnastics Championships with men's team gold and a first-ever mixed team silver.
Olympians Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse combined with major championship debutants Jonas Rushworth and Jamie Lewis to be crowned champions for the men's team discipline.
While even more history was made when Jarman and Ruby Evans became the first-ever mixed team silver medallists at the Championships, finishing second to home duo Karina Schoenmaier and Timo Eder.
On the ice, the dynamic duo of Mouat and Jen Dodds took home silver at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships in Fredericton, Canada, securing a third and final curling quota spot for Milano Cortina 2026.
More medals were won on the water as British divers racked up a hat-trick of bronze medals and a solitary silver at the European Aquatics Diving Championships in Antalya, Turkey.
Silver medallist Noah Penman led the way by winning his first individual senior European medal after a strong performance in the men's 3m springboard contest.
While it was a winning return to the iconic course for Paris 2024 medallists Adam Burgess and Kimberley Woods at the European Canoe Slalom Championships, with Burgess clinching gold alongside Ryan Wesley and Luc Royle in the men's canoe team event.
JUNE
June could not have got off to a better start when Simon Yates claimed the Giro d’Italia crown on the first day of the month.
The Visma-Lease a Bike rider had done all the work in fairytale fashion the day before, having started the penultimate stage in third, one minute and 21 seconds off leader Isaac del Toro.
But Yates, who lost the lead on the punishing Colle delle Finestre mountain stage in 2018, used it to his advantage this time round as he surged away on the ascent and not only bridged the gap in the general classification but left Toro one minute 41 seconds in his wake.
There was more British success on two wheels to come in June as Cat Ferguson clinched her first World Tour stage win in the Tour of Britain.
There were medals galore on display for British Rowing at the European Championships in Bulgaria as British Olympic boats took home five golds and two bronzes.
Notably, Lauren Henry claimed a British record and European best time in the women’s single sculls (W1x), while Cedol Dafydd, Callum Dixon, Matt Haywood and Rory Harris made history when they became the first-ever British quad to win gold at a European Championship.
In Innsbruck, Olympic gold medallist Toby Roberts returned to winning ways with a gold medal in the Boulder World Cup.
Just 10 days before Roberts had finished 51st in Bern, leading him to open up about his struggles around pressure and expectation.
But it certainly proved a weight off his shoulders as he recaptured his best form and added silver in the Lead World Cup to that gold to round off a successful competition.
While George Mills stepped up at the Oslo Diamond League, delivering a blistering performance to break Mo Farah’s 5000m record by more than six seconds.
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