Crewe gymnast Bryony Page out to complete the set at Paris 2024

Crewe gymnast Bryony Page is taking inspiration from Team GB icon Jonny Brownlee after selection for a third Olympic Games.

The reigning trampoline world champion won silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo and is now hoping to complete the Olympic medal set at Paris 2024.

Triathlete Brownlee jokingly declared “The Olympics? Completed it” after striking gold in Tokyo and 33-year-old Page is desperately wants to make the same claim later this summer.

“I think my capability is there to do it, I’ve been world champion twice and won a silver medal in this Olympic cycle but then again I’ve finished fourth at a World Cup with all the competitors that are going to Paris,” said Page.

“The absolute dream is to be Olympic champion and complete the set like Jonny Brownlee.

“You have those people that are Olympic champion again and again, but having the whole set is kind of nice.

“I have so many inspirational athletes and people that I look up to and he's definitely one of them.

“We actually met after our medals in Tokyo and I’m the worst fangirl in those situations.”

Page leads the trampolining team in Paris and is welcoming the prospect of helping debutants Izzy Songhurst, 25, and Zak Perzamanos, 21, navigate their first Olympic experience.

“I’ll answer the questions they have but I don't want to ruin the surprise and the joy,” said Page.

“I want to help them as much as I can in the same way that Kat (Driscoll) looked after me going into Rio.

“What makes this Olympics so special is that nobody was able to come last time.

“We weren’t able to share Tokyo so well with our friends and families so to be selected for this is almost even more special than selection for my second Games because I knew that people could come and watch.

“We sorted out the ticket situation earlier this week and I cried on the phone call because I’m so grateful to everyone who is making the trip.”

Page is one of over 1,000 elite athletes on UK Sport’s National Lottery-funded World Class Programme, allowing them to train full time, have access to the world’s best coaches and benefit from pioneering medical support – this is vital for her pathway to the Paris 2024 Games.

Of the six men and seven women selected in Team GB’s artistic and trampoline squad, eight are Olympic debutants and five are returning Olympians, including triple gold medallist Max Whitlock.

“Team GB has proven itself as a serious medal contender in all three of gymnastics disciplines selected and it is fantastic to head to Paris with athletes who not only have Games experience, but experience of standing on that Olympic rostrum,” said Chef de Mission Mark England.

“I am sure all eight Olympic debutants in the team will lean on their experience this summer, and the team will once again make the nation proud.”

Whitlock will spearhead the men’s artistic team and will become the first gymnast to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus if he adds to his two golds and a bronze on the pommel horse in Paris.

“This Olympics is even more crazy for me because it’s going be my last one," commented Whitlock.

“I am excited to trust the process and give it everything I’ve got as there’s nothing to lose at this stage.”

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