The Brits enjoy their 66th medal of the Rio Games with bronze in the women’s 4x400m relayMo Farah celebrates Britain’s 65th medal of the Olympics
Then Christine Ohuruogu and the 4x400m relay girls sealed the magic 66 target as the team made history with bronze.
Joe Joyce is also guaranteed at least a silver medal as he goes for gold in the super-heavyweight boxing final.
Britain are now the first nation to win more medals at a summer Games following an Olympiad that they have hosted four years earlier.
Team GB are also still ON target to beat China in the medal standings, in a stunning state of affairs as the Chinese flopped badly in Brazil. They have more medals than Britain overall with 69 but have won 25 golds.
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The USA are the clear front-runners with 116 total medals, 43 of them gold.
UK Sport chief Liz Nicholl said: “It has been outstanding.
“We knew we had potentially 79 medal shots and our target was at least 48 – a best ever ‘away’ Games – but really we were aiming for 66, one more than London.
“It shows that the system is working here in the UK and yet those of us involved know that there’s a huge amount more that can be improved, more potential to come, so as we look ahead to Tokyo, it’s looking really exciting.”
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