page_title: Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics
section_title: Track
hierarchical_section_title: Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics / Cycling / Track
caption_attribution_description: English: Rebecca Romero at the 2008 UCI World Track Cycling Champinships in Manchester
context_page_description: Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The United Kingdom was represented by the British Olympic Association, and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. Britain is one of only five NOCs to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games since 1896. The delegation of 547 people included 311 competitors – 168 men, 143 women – and 236 officials. The team was made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom including Northern Ireland. Additionally some British overseas territories compete separately from Britain in Olympic competition.
  Great Britain's medal performance at the 2008 Summer Olympics was its best in a century; At the close of the Games, the total medal count, 47, was also the fourth highest Great Britain had ever achieved. Only its performance at the 1908 Summer Olympics, which Britain hosted in London, resulted in more gold medals being awarded. Following retests of doping samples in 2016 in connection with the Russian doping scandal, 4 further medals, all bronze, were awarded in athletics, retrospectively increasing the total gained to 51.
context_section_description: Sprint
  Pursuit
  Keirin
  Omnium
caption: Women's individual pursuit gold medallist Rebecca Romero.
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