Ten years ago Great Britain won 65 medals – 29 golds, 18 silvers and 18 bronzes – to clinch third place in the table at London 2012.
Team GB claimed three gold medals in one athletics session for the first time in Olympic history on ‘Super Saturday’ as Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah delighted a capacity crowd of 80,000 with three triumphs in the space of a barely-believable 45 minutes.
Here, the PA news agency looks back on that special night among other triumphs ahead of the 10th anniversary of the London Games.
There were fireworks during the London Olympics opening ceremony (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Greg Rutherford was crowned Olympic men’s long jump champion (Stephen Pond/PA)
Usain Bolt won the men’s 200 metres final – amongst two other golds – at the Olympic Stadium (Martin Rickett/PA)
Bradley Wiggins won the men’s individual time trial (John Giles/PA)
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge cheered on Great Britain with Prince Harry (right) from the Velodrome (John Giles/PA)
Helen Glover (left) and Heather Stanning won the coxless pairs for Team GB’s first gold of the Games (Stephen Pond/PA)
Former Prime Minister David Cameron (left) cheered Great Britain on with members of the team (David Davies/PA)
Victoria Pendleton won gold in the women’s keirin (David Davies/PA)
Anthony Joshua (centre) toasted super heavyweight gold with Audley Harrison (left) and Lennox Lewis (Nick Potts/PA)
Little-known 15-year-old Ruta Meilutyte from Lithuania won gold in the 100m breaststroke (Mike Egerton/PA)
Ben Ainslie celebrated on the podium after winning gold in the Finn class (Chris Ison/PA)
Jade Jones claimed gold against China’s Yuzhuo Hou in the women’s -57kg taekwondo final (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Michael Jamieson claimed silver in the men’s 200m breaststroke (Julien Behal/PA)
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark (far left) won women’s 470 class sailing silver as did Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell (far right) in the men’s event (Chris Ison/PA)
Rebecca Adlington picked up bronze in the 400m and 800m freestyle (Tim Ireland/PA)
Daniel Purvis (left to right), Max Whitlock, Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas and Sam Oldham won bronze in the gymnastics team final (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Fireworks over the Olympic Stadium and Orbit marked the end of the closing ceremony (Mike Egerton/PA)
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