And Jack Laugher won his second medal of the Rio Olympics with silver in the three metres springboard. By the end of Tuesday, they could have 50 in the bag.
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Trott’s fiancé Jason Kenny won men’s keirin which was restarted twice. The medals gave their nation six golds and 11 overall during the track cycling program at the Olympic velodrome.
The Herts racer said the three and a half year period between London 2012 and the Rio Olympics had been a hard one, when the riders didn’t have the benefit of all the top-class kit and equipment lavished on them.
A slow start to the season was followed by head coach Shane Sutton stepping down in controversial circumstances shortly after the team had begun to click at the world championships in London with titles in five of the 19 events.
Trott picked up her second gold medal at the Rio Games in the omnium, making her the first female British Olympian to win four golds.
And it could have been even better. She just had to watch out for Hammer and D’Hoore to make sure they didn’t gain laps on her to win her fourth career Olympic gold medal.
Kenny, who along with Callum Skinner and Philip Hindes, got the wheels turning on Thursday with a surprise win over New Zealand in the team sprint, has become the team’s talisman.
“I lost it on the last metre, it was insane”, the 25-year-old told Reuters.
“We did so well in Beijing, we matched in it London. We never thought we’d get anywhere near it here, but we’ve turned up and done the business again”.
“It’s down to all of that that we were able to come here and break the world record in the pursuit and then I was able to win the omnium”.
But his fiance’s success in London as part of the sensational women’s team made her a household name. James settled for silver, and Marchant came back to beat Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands for bronze. “I just can’t even explain what I’m going through right now, I’m just so, so happy”.
Kenny and Trott were the stars of the final day in the velodrome, though, as Britain continued its dominance of track cycling. She later back-tracked.
“I don’t really listen to Chris, but he is right worryingly often”, Kenny said.
Now he has the same number of Olympic medals – Hoy has seven, including a silver from Sydney 2000 – and could go on to surpass the Scot’s tally at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
No stone is left unturned to find the “marginal gains” former team boss Dave Brailsford was once obsessed about.
“He’s most certainly one of the most outstanding British athletes of all time”, said Dyer. “When you look at the times we have set on what is not a particularly fast track, it serves to highlight how good they were here”.
“Then we target the Olympics”.
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Earlier on Tuesday, 29-year-old Giles Scott won gold in sailing’s Finn class, maintaining Britain’s sailing supremacy in the heavyweight dinghy event. “Am I going to go another four years?”
