Georgia Taylor-Brown, Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee and Alex Yee combine to deliver victory in Tokyo

After winning individual silver medals in the triathlon, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee teamed up with Jess Learmonth and Jonny Brownlee to win the new triathlon mixed relay event at the Olympics on Saturday (July 31).

The race saw each of the triathletes complete a 300m swim, 6.8km bike and 2km run and Learmonth got Britain off to a good start before handing over to Brownlee, then Taylor-Brown and finally Yee.

For Brownlee it completed a set of Olympic medals as he has previously won silver and bronze at the Games in 2016 and 2012 respectively. Clearly inspired by the goal of winning his first gold, he produced an inspired performance before Taylor-Brown took over on the third stage to consolidate Britain’s advantage.

After briefly being overtaken by Vincent Luis of France during the bike stage, Yee finished strongly on the run to see off the challenge of the United States, who took silver medals 14 seconds behind Britain, with France coming third.

“The Olympics, I’ve completed it,” said Brownlee. “It feels absolutely amazing. It’s my third Olympics and I finally walk away with gold.

“We knew coming into this race there was a lot of pressure on us, we all had to race very well and do everything right and that’s what we did.”