DAY ONE:

Jason Queally - cycling (men's 1km time trial)

Britain's first medal of the Sydney Olympics came with this unexpected victory as the Chorley-based rider, starting 13th of the 16 competitors, smashed his previous personal best by nearly a second and a half to clock a new Olympic record of 1:01.609.

The 30-year-old then faced an anxious wait to see what colour medal it would be but home favourite Shane Kelly and France's world record holder and favourite Arnaud Tournant were unable to match his time.

DAY FIVE: Richard Faulds - shooting (men's double trap)

The 23-year-old from Longparish in Hampshire beat Australian Russell Mark.

Lying fourth going into the final round, kept his nerve at the Sydney International Shooting Centre to become Britain's first shooting gold medallist since Malcolm Cooper in 1988.

The Surrey-born marksman, who is an instructor at the West London Shooting School, was two points behind Mark, who had shot an Olympic record total of 143 in the preliminary round.

Faulds, an instructor at the West London Shooting School, said: "I thought I had lost it. I cannot believe it. It's a dream come true - somebody smack me!"

DAY EIGHT: Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, James Cracknell - rowing (men's coxless four).

Redgrave became the first athlete in the modern era to win gold medals at five successive Olympic Games when Britain's coxless four led from early in the race and held off their rivals to win in 5:26.24.

It was Britain's first Olympic gold medal in the men's coxless four event since Los Angeles 1932 when John Badcock, Jack Beresford jnr, Hugh Edwards and Rowland George triumphed.

DAY NINE: Andrew Lindsay, Ben Hunt-Davis, Simon Dennis, Louis Attrill, Luka Grubor, Kieran West, Fred Scarlett, Steve Trapmore, Rowley Douglas - rowing (men's eight).

Leading from start to finish on the Penrith Lakes, the Brits controlled the race from the front, taking a decisive 0.6 second advantage over Croatia at 500m, which they had extended to 1.11 seconds by the halfway stage.

Although arch rivals Australia launched a late charge from the lane next to them, Britain held firm to win in a time of 5:33.08, a 0.8 margin over the host nation with Croatia forced to settle for bronze.

DAY NINE: Denise Lewis - athletics (heptathlon).

The 28-year-old came through the pain barrier after hurting her foot in the long jump to win by 53 points from Russian's Yelena Prokhorova with Natalya Sazanovich of Belarus just four points further back.

Lewis emerged for the final race of the seven-discipline event the previous day with both calves strapped and battled through the two laps to become the first Briton to win an Olympic title in track and field since Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell were victorious in Barcelona in 1992.

DAY 10: Jonathan Edwards - athletics (triple jump).

World record holder Edwards finally struck gold in his fourth Olympic Games and with Larry Achike and rookie Phillips Idowu finishing fifth and sixth.

Edwards won courtesy of a third-round leap of 17.71 metres - the best in the world this year - with Cuban Yoel Garcia claiming silver (17.47) and Russian Denis Kasputin (17.46) taking bronze.

DAY 14:

Shirley Robertson - sailing (women's Europe class).

Robertson, a 32-year-old Scot, looked to be cruising to victory the previous day but had to cling on in a tight finish against the magnificent backdrop of Sydney's Harbour Bridge.

Robertson had taken a commanding nine-point lead into the final day's sailing but a nightmare in the first race, when she struggled back in 16th place, set up a tense finale.

Going into the final race she needed to finish within four places of herclosest rival, Dutchwoman Margriet Matthysse, to give Britain its best golden haul since Paris in 1924. She finished third and though Matthysse won the race Robertson took the gold.

DAY 14:

Ben Ainslie - sailing (Laser class).

Ainslie took revenge for his silver in Atlanta by striking gold in the Open Laser class by just one point after a dramatic battle with Brazilian Robert Scheidt which was full of 'dirty tricks' and knife-edge sailing.

Ainslie had to wait almost four-and-a-half hours before learning his gold had been confirmed following a variety of protests after a race in which both boats rammed each other and in which Ainslie's ruthless tactics were to block Scheidt at the back of the field.

In the end it was Scheidt who was disqualified from the final race for colliding with his opponent.

DAY 15:

Iain Percy - sailing (Finn class).

The 24-year-old from Southampton won with a race to spare when his nearest rival, Frederik Loof of Sweden, could not finish in the top five on another sunbaked day in Rushcutters Bay.

Percy could only finish 14th in his penultimate race but such was his commanding lead, with the Swede managing only 11th, that he won by the sailing equivalent of a country mile.

DAY 16

Audley Harrison - boxing (super-heavyweight)

Harrison, despite nursing a swollen left hand, beat Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan, with a convincing 30-16 margin.

The Londoner's victory is the first Olympic boxing gold for Britain since 1968 when Chris Finnegan won the middleweight title at the Mexico City Games.

DAY 16

Stephanie Cook - modern pentathlon.

Stephanie Cook won Britain's 11th gold medal of the Games, overturning a 49-second disadvantage on the cross-country run to snatch the first women's Olympic title from the American Emily deRiel.