DAY ONE

Highs: Jason Queally gives the British team a flying start with a cycling gold medal in the men's 1km time trial.

Lows: Paul Palmer, silver medallist in Atlanta in 400m freestyle, crashes out in heat in 3:51.06 - failing to qualify for final.

DAY TWO

Highs: Double silver success for Britain. Ian Peel bags one in shooting's men's Olympic Trap and Queally adds silver to his gold, along with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean in the men's Olympic sprint.

Lows: September 17: Simon Lessing, expected to contend for gold medal in inaugural Olympic triathlon, finishes ninth - more than a minute after surprise Canadian winner Simon Whitfield.

DAY THREE

Highs: Yvonne McGregor adds to the cycling medal tally with a bronze in the women's individual pursuit.

Lows: Britain are humiliated 8-1 by Pakistan in men's hockey.

DAY FOUR

Highs: Our Three-Day Eventers - Jeanette Brakewell (on Over To You), Leslie Law (on Shear H20), Pippa Funnell (on Supreme Rock) and Ian Stark (on Jaybee) - serve up another silver medal and the cyclists put the seal on their successful Games with a bronze in the men's team 4000m pursuit. Bradley Wiggins, Bryan Steel, Chris Newton, Paul Manning take gold in the final and Rob Hayles and Jon Clay, who competed in the semi-finals, eventually get medals too after a successful protest by the British Olympic Association to the International Olympic Committee.

Lows: Gold medal hopeful in men's -81kg competition, Graeme Randall, knocked out of title contention in upset defeat by Iran's Kazem Sarikhani.

DAY FIVE

Highs: Richard Faulds claims Britain's second gold of the Games in shooting's men's double trap and there are two more silvers - for Paul Ratcliffe in canoeing's men's K1 canoe/kayak slalom and for Kate Howey in judo's women's 70kg class.

Lows: British gold medal hope in tennis, Tim Henman, is beaten in straight sets by Slovakian Karol Kucera.

DAY SIX

Highs: Simon Archer and Joanne Goode battle their way to a badminton bronze medal in the mixed doubles.

Lows: Chloe Cowan falls short of the medal stage in judo's 78kg category.

DAY SEVEN

Highs: No highs here. Britain draws a blank on the medals front for the first time after success on the first six days.

Lows: British men's 400m runner Jamie Baulch finishes sixth in his first round run with a time of 46.52 seconds and fails to progress to next round.

DAY EIGHT

Highs: Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, James Cracknell win rowing gold for Britain in the men's coxless four, making Redgrave Britain's most successful Olympian. Gold at five successive Games makes him the most successful Olympian of all time in endurance sports. Steve Backley claims Britain's first track and field medal - a silver in the javelin.

Lows: Greg Searle and Ed Coode narrowly miss out on bronze in rowing's men's coxless pair final.

DAY NINE

Highs: Inspired by Redgrave & co, Britain's men's eight - Andrew Lindsay, Ben Hunt-Davis, Simon Dennis, Louis Attrill, Luka Grubor, Kieran West, Fred Scarlett, Steve Trapmore, Rowley Douglas - deliver a second rowing gold of the Games and Denise Lewis claims a first athletics gold in the women's heptathlon. Guin Batten, Gillian Lindsay, Katherine Grainger, Miriam Batten row their way into the history books by claiming a silver medal in the women's quadruple sculls - the first British women's Olympic rowing medal.

Lows: Tony Jarrett is disqualified for running out of his lane in the 110m hurdles heats.

DAY 10

Highs: Jonathan Edwards lives up to his favourite tag and wins Olympic triple jump gold at the fourth attempt. Ian Barker and Simon Hiscocks win Britain's first sailing medal - a silver - in the 49er class. Katharine Merry wins a bronze in a 400m final won by Cathy Freeman, who coped with having the hopes of a nation on her shoulders to deliver gold for Australia.

Kelly Holmes battles her way to a surprise British bronze in the 800m final.

Lows: Gold medal hope Colin Jackson finishes fifth in 110m hurdles. A false start in semi-final leads to a lane one draw for the final where he has another false start before Cuba's Anier Garcia races to gold.

DAY 11

Highs: Britain draw a medals blank but Iain Percy and Ben Ainslie are well placed to add to the gold medal haul.

Lows: Sprint specialist Sara Symington is a group of 24 riders involved in a final sprint but misses out on a medal in the 120km women's road race.

DAY 12

Highs: Although Britain draw a medals blank there is the guarantee of at least a bronze for boxer Audley Harrison after he wins his +95kg class quarter final fight against Oleksii Mazikin.

Lows: Rob Hayles suffers his second crash of the Games in the men's cycling road race.

DAY 13

Highs: Darren Campbell gets the British medal bandwagon rolling again with a silver in the 200m final.

Lows: Dean Macey, in silver medal position overnight, finishes without a decathlon medal after a controversy involving eventual winner.

DAY 14

Highs: A golden double for Britain's sailors. Shirley Robertson leads the way by winning the women's Europe class and Ben Ainslie followed suit with gold in the Laser class, although he had a four-and-a-half wait for confirmation after Brazilian arch rival Robert Scheidt.

Lows: British men's 4x100m relay team, gold medal contenderss, are disqualified from heat after illegal baton change.

DAY 15

Highs: Iain Percy completes a gold medal hat-trick for Britain's sailors with victory in the Finn class and Ian Walker and Mark Covell weigh in with a silver in the Star class for an overall sailing medal haul of three golds and two silvers - making it Britain's most successful sport in the Olympics.

Tim Brabants had got the day off to a flying start with a bronze in canoeing's men's k1 1000m sprint final - Britain's first Olympic canoeing sprint medal.

Lows: The only disappointment on a day when Britain bagged two golds, a silver and bronze was that Colin Daley narrowly missed out on a chance to fight for taekwondo bronze after losing his second repechage fight.

DAY 16

Highs: The Brits didn't let up on the final day of competition.

Super-heavyweight Audley Harrison won Britain's first boxing gold medallist since Chris Finnegan triumphed in Mexico City in 1968. Harrison's gold took Britain into double figures and Stephanie Cook made it 11 golds when she won the modern pentathlon with team-mate Kate Allenby taking the bronze.

Lows: No lows here either. The perfect way to round off a successful Games with two golds and a bronze.<