World champions, European titles and the start of a thrilling Olympic Winter season.
The second half of 2025 saw continued success for British athletes across all sports and with the end of the year now here, we're looking back at some of the top moments.
So dive into Team GB's 2025 Wrapped from July to December.
July
British athletes returned a bumper medal haul in July, from European titles to Diamond League golds in front of a home crowd.
Great Britain claimed both the men’s and women’s 2025 iQFOiL World Championship titles in Aarhus as Emma Wilson and Andy Brown both took gold.
Wilson, who won bronze at Paris 2024, marked her first senior world title in style as she beat Tamar Steinberg and Theresa Marie Steinlein to seal top spot.
British shooters returned to Chateauroux in France, familiar as the site of Paris 2024 shooting success, as Ben Llewellin claimed the men's skeet European title and Amber Rutter added European silver to her Olympic silver.
In the pool, Paris 2024 bronze medallists Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper made it three of the best from the diving boards as they claimed a third consecutive world championship medal in Singapore.
The duo claimed a silver medal in the women’s 3m synchro, after taking bronze in Doha in 2024 and another silver in Fukuoka in 2023, finishing 26.85 points behind gold medallists Yiwen Chen and Jia Chen of China.
Olympic champion Tom Pidcock participated in a British one-two as he claimed European gold at the MTB XCO European Championships, with Charlie Aldridge following him home for silver and Evie Richards taking silver in the women's event as Britain's equestrians claimed their first European Jumping Team medal in six years as they bagged a silver in the event in A Coruna.
There was plenty of success for British athletes at the London Diamond League in front of a home crowd.
Charlie Dobson delivered a shock victory in a personal best time of 44.14 in the men's 400m, coming from nowhere to move up from fourth and take the win.
As Georgia Hunter Bell, Dina Asher-Smith, Amy Hunt, Desiree Henry and Daryll Neita all dazzled on the track.
August
August kicked off with a splash as Great Britain retained their men's 4x200m freestyle relay title at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
The quartet of Matt Richards, James Guy, Jack McMillan and Duncan Scott proved yet again why they were the ones to beat as they held off China and Australia in a thrilling finish, clocking in at a combined time of 6:59.84.
Over in Denmark, Beth Shriever became a three-time UCI BMX Racing World Champion after pipping Australian rider Saya Sakakibara and the Netherlands' Judy Baauw.
"It feels absolutely incredible," Shriever told the BBC. "It's been a mad, mad day of racing. I scraped through the semi and just said this is all or nothing now. I'm gassed to take home the win."
Matt Coward-Holley claimed men's trap silver at the European Shooting Championships as Keely Hodgkinson showed yet again why she is one of her country's greatest sporting talents by powering past the meeting record to win the 800m at the Silesia Diamond League.
The Olympic champion had not competed since her golden moment in Paris last summer after a injury-stricken start to her season kept her away from the track but her much anticipated return came in incredible form, as the fleet-footed superstar ran 1:54.74 to take the win.
September
The 2025 World Athletics Championships saw many British athletes return to the stadium in which they represented Team GB four summers ago – and this time the stands were full.
Over the course of nine days of action, there were tales of redemption, tears of joy and no shortage of drama as Hunter-Bell pipped teammate Hodgkinson to the line for the British silver and bronze in the women's 800m.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson shed tears of joy after sharing an unprecedented World Championships bronze medal at the end of a dramatic 800m finale, having suffered Olympic heartache four years ago in the same stadium courtesy of a calf injury.
Hunt sped to a dazzling silver to announce herself as a true force to be reckoned with in the women’s 200m and Jake Wightman clinched silver on the line in a tense men's 1500m battle.
At the Rowing World Championships, a new-look men's four crew of George Bourne, Douwe De Graaf, James Robson and Daniel Graham claimed a stunning victory, adding to four silvers and a bronze for Britain in Shanghai.
Teagn Stott and Emily Asquith led the way at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool as they soared to silver in what was a five-strong medal haul for GB Boxing.
The newest Olympic sport of Flag Football saw British success as the women's squad successfully defended their European Championship title in Paris.
The team soared to gold back in 2023 and backed it up with a second victory as they begin their first Olympic cycle on the journey to LA 2028.
Pidcock clinched his maiden Grand Tour podium with a third place finish in La Vuelta, Ros Canter became the first person to win Badminton and Burghley Horse Trials on the same horse since 1989 and GB men's basketball team clinched their first EuroBasket victory since 2013 with an 89-83 win over Montenegro.
October
October came and went with a flourish, but it saw no less than six British athletes clinch a world championship title.
British Cycling clinched a staggering 14 medals at the World Track Cycling Championships in Chile, their biggest ever medal haul in the event's history.
Katie Archibald and Maddie Leech led the way with gold in the women's madison, marking Archibald's seventh title and Leech's first, while crowns also followed in the non-Olympic events of the men's points race and individual pursuit.
There are six floor exercise medals up for grabs at an artistic gymnastics world championships and Britain took home four.
Jake Jarman might not have had the chance to defend his vault world title, but the Olympic bronze medallist switched one apparatus for another as he soared to floor gold with a score of 14.866, sharing the podium with fellow Brit Luke Whitehouse who clinched silver with 14.666.
And days later, the women decided that twice is just as nice, making it another double British podium as Ruby Evans and Abi Martin took women's floor silver and bronze.
Joe Clarke continued his reign as the king of kayak cross with Canoe Slalom World Championships gold in Sydney. It marked his fourth world title in the event which made its debut at the Paris 2024 Olympics last summer.
There was maiden world championship success on the mat for both Caden Cunningham and Lauren Williams as the duo both took home their first medals at the World Taekwondo Championships, Cunningham in the men's +87kg and Williams in the women's +73kg.
Elsewhere, Beth Potter added another world medal to her collection with world triathlon bronze in Australia as Dylan Hessey soared to European BMX Freestyle gold in the Netherlands.
November
As the winter season entered into full swing, November delivered plenty to be excited about ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
Scotland earned two medals at the European Curling Championships in November with Team Mouat and Team Morrison both finishing on the podium.
Rebecca Morrison, along with Jennifer Dodds, Sophie Sinclair, Sophie Jackson and Fay Henderson bagged silver in Lohja, Finland as Team Mouat won bronze.
Matt Weston took Britain’s first World Cup victory of the season in the men’s skeleton at the 2025/26 IBSF World Cup in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The reigning world champion took the first gold on offer for the season, and the first on the new Olympic sliding track at the Eugenio Monti Sliding Centre as Kirsty Muir flew to her first Big Air World Cup title in China.
Away from the ice and snow, Bryony Page and Izzy Songhurst swapped their 2023 bronze for world silver as they finished second in the women’s synchro at the 2025 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships.
While Seonaid McIntosh returned from injury in style as she became the first British woman to claim a medal in the 50m rifle three positions event at the ISSF World Championships.
Having only returned to training in October, after taking 14 months off after Paris 2024, McIntosh’s total of 454.6 was enough to secure her a place on the podium in Cairo.
December
December continued to rain skeleton success for Great Britain as men's, women's and mixed team medals racked up every World Cup.
Weston and Marcus Wyatt traded places on top of the podium with a gold and silver each, as Amelia Coltman and Tabby Stoeker both clinched podium places.
The winter season saw a strong showing to close out the month, with Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson successfully defending their Grand Prix Final bronze on the ice.
Last season, the ice dance pair won Britain's first ever medal in the event and backed it up with a score of 208.81 to return to the third step of the podium.
Elsewhere on the slopes, Zoe Atkin and Mia Brookes returned to competition with World Cup wins in their respective freeski halfpipe and snowboard big air events.
Alex Yee became the second fastest British marathon runner of all-time behind Sir Mo Farah at the Valencia marathon earlier in the month, clocking 2:06:38 to place seventh.
Away from the field of play, Olympians saw recognition beyond sport as London 2012 footballer Karen Carney lifted the glitterball trophy on Strictly Come Dancing 2025 and ice dance icons Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean received a Damehood and Knighthood in the 2026 King's New Years Honours.
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