Before the Olympics began, Victoria Pendleton predicted confidently that London 2012 would become known as the 'girlie games'. What incredible foresight the British track cyclist showed. Her prophecy has come true in spectacular fashion, with GB's girls delivering many of the historic moments for which these Games will be forever remembered. From Jessica Ennis powering to gold in the heptathlon and Charlotte Dujardin's incredible elegance in the dressage, to the hurricane force of boxer Nicola Adams and the immense strength of character shown by our rowers, London 2012 has definitely been about our female athletes. Scroll down for interviews with the winners . Nicola Adams beat China's Cancan Ren to claim gold in the 51kg boxing category yesterday, at the time Britain's 24th gold of the Games . Charlotte Dujardin won her second gold of London 2012 yesterday afternoon in the Individual Dressage . There was late-night glory for Jade Jones in the taekwondo yesterday, Britain's 25th gold . ATHLETICSJessica Ennis (Heptathlon)BOXINGNicola Adams (Flyweight 51kg)TRACK CYCLINGVictoria Pendleton (Keirin)Laura Trott (Omnium)Laura Trott, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell (Team Pursuit)EQUESTRIANCharlotte Dujardin (Individual Dressage)Charlotte Dujardin, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Carl Hester (Team Dressage)ROWINGHelen Glover and Heather Stanning (Women's Pair)Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins (Double sculls)Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking (Lightweight double sculls)TAEKWONDOJade Jones (Under 57kg) In fact, if GB's women were to compete . independently of the men, they would be seventh in the medal table. Their . ten gold medals would put them level with Germany's overall tally and . ahead of France, Italy, Australia and Japan. Team GB's women have five times as many golds as Spain and Brazil, and more than those two nations combined with Japan. And this doesn't take into . consideration two of Britain's equestrian golds - the team dressage . winners were two-thirds female and the team eventing gold medallists . four-fifths. From orchestrating the beat-perfect . movement of the horses in the dressage to executing brutal kicks to the . head in taekwondo, Britain's women have delivered right across the spectrum of Olympic sports. It . was the brilliant row of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the . women's pair that broke Britain's gold medal duck on the fifth day of . the Games, prompting an avalanche of precious metal and glorious . moments. Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon in superb style on Saturday night . Victoria Pendleton took gold in the Keirin, just one of seven gold medallists won by Britain's track cyclists at these Games . And the woman tipped to succeed Pendleton, Laura Trott, won gold in the omnium event . Trott (centre) also collected a second gold with Dani King (left) and Joanna Rowsell in the team pursuit . Trott with London Mayor Boris Johnson at the launch of the RideLondon event today . Their success at Eton Dorney was . followed up by two more rowing golds, including an emotional moment of . fulfillment for Katherine Grainger, who won gold at last in the double . sculls after three consecutive silver. Female success then moved indoors, to . the electric atmosphere of the Velodrome. 'Queen' Victoria Pendleton . may have jumped the gun in the team sprint but she showed her familiar . strength of character to return 24 hours later and blitz the field in . the keirin. And Pendleton's heir apparent Laura . Trott, just 20, exploded onto the biggest stage with twin golds in the . omnium, the most arduous of cycling events, and the team pursuit . alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell. The golden dynasty of British track cycling appears to be set to continue for some time yet. Boxer Nicola Adams (in blue) knocks down China's Cancan Ren in the final of the Flyweight category yesterday . Nicola Adams and Usain Bolt both won gold medals yesterday . Charlotte Dujardin pats her horse Valegro after a flawless six-minute dressage routine delivered her second gold medal of the Games yesterday . Dujardin had already won gold in the Team Dressage event two days earlier, alongside Carl Hester (centre) and Laura Bechtolsheimer (right) Perhaps the defining moment of British success at these Games arrived a few moments before 9pm on Saturday night, when Jessica Ennis, the poster girl of the British team, completed her heptathlon triumph before an adoring crowd in the Olympic Stadium. The sight of British athletes parading around a venue, smiling broadly and with the Union Jack fluttering behind them, before wiping away the mandatory tear on the medal podium, has become a delightfully common one. The glory has continued this week in three contrasting sports. Charlotte Dujardin and Laura Bechtolsheimer won gold in the dressage, an event of grace and elegance, while Nicola Adams and Jade Jones did likewise in boxing and taekwondo, sports of unbridled power and brute force. We have become so accustomed to . hearing 'God Save the Queen' during these Games that it would be easy to . forget the silver and bronze medals, but the female roll of honour goes . on and on. Rebecca Adlington has never finished . out of the medals in an Olympic event, though she wouldn't perhaps of . envisaged two bronze medals from her home Games. Lizzie Armitstead won our first . medal, a silver, in the women's road race - a few seconds of early drama . as three cyclists sprinted down The Mall which truly set the tone for . countless moments of Olympic theatre to come. The judoka Gemma Gibbons took silver and devoted it to her late mum in a heart-wrenching moment. Jade Jones (right) delivers a kick to the head of opponent Yuzhuo Hou of China on her way to gold in the Under-57kg taekwondo competition last night . Helen Glover (left) and Heather Stanning ended Britain's gold drought in the women's pair final on Day Five of the Games . And further female success in the rowing came when Katherine Grainger (left) and Anna Watkins won the double sculls . Their performances drew gushing . praise from Lord Coe, who also pointed out that the London Olympics are . the first ever in which both men and women have been included in every . squad and participated in every sport. He added that the 2012 Games had continued the progress for women's sport made in the last London Games in 1948. 'I think that having 1948 with Fanny Blankers-Koen here really moved that argument for the presence of women in the Games. 'We've had more women competing in these Games (and) some of the big high-profile moments. 'If you look at this morning's media they are focusing on women.' He also praised the participation of . Sarah Attar who became one of the first women to represent Saudi Arabia . at the Olympics when she ran in the 800 metres. Her appearance followed months of . talks, with Saudi Olympic chiefs at one point insisting no women would . be allowed to take part. Lord Coe said she had 'really moved this agenda on in London' International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said: 'If you take, for example, 1984, only 24% of athletes were women. 'This Games, our provisional figure . is that this is just over 44%. So we are nearly at gender equality, . which is really good going.' But he added: 'Just getting all the . NOCs (National Olympic Committees) to send athletes is great, symbolic . and an important symbol, but that is not enough. 'We continue to push the NOCs and . work with the NOCs to provide sporting facilities for women, which is . challenging in some countries. So we will continue to work on that too.' Grainger and Watkins were congratulated by Prime Minister David Cameron at the London Studios this morning . Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hoskins picked up more precious metal in the lightweight double sculls final . And all this, just eight months after a BBC Sports Personality shortlist that didn't contain a single woman. There have been so many brilliant . successes that some pundits have wildly speculated there should be . separate awards for men and women. This is ridiculous - at least half of this year's shortlist will be female. But there is a prize far greater than . this - a generation of girls inspired by this roster of Olympic role . models to get involved in all manner of sports. They want to run, jump and throw like Jess, pedal like Pendleton and even punch like Adams. Sports clubs the length and breadth of the country are already being overwhelmed with new recruits. The Olympics has certainly captured the imagination - . witness the record 80,203 crowd at Wembley Stadium last night for the . women's football final - and the challenge now is to convert this . feel-good factor into Britain's Olympians of the future. Team GB is punching way above its weight in the Olympics, as shown by an interactive atlas which distorts the size of countries to reflect the number of medals won. A researcher at the University of St Andrews has created a map which displays the distribution of medals at London 2012. The online atlas continually updates to show how the medals are spread across the globe as well as the number of medals by population. When countries are reconfigured by population size, Britain swells considerably. This map, created by the University of St Andrews, shows the number of medals won in the Olympics so far for each country . The map shows how well nations are doing by their population size . The USA, predicted to win the most medals, appears smaller than usual and second-place favourites China shrinks to a fraction of its actual size because of its massive population. India is doing poorly considering its population size, while Slovenia and New Zealand are leading countries. The map is updated every hour and can be . viewed at www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics.
Britain's female Olympians have won ten gold medals, the same number as Germany .
They outrank France, Spain and Australia in the medal table after wins in events from rowing to taekwondo .
Scientific study shows Britain punching way above its weight for size of population .
Lord Coe praises contribution of female athletes at London Games .
Before the Olympics began, Victoria Pendleton predicted confidently that London 2012 would become known as the 'girlie games'. What incredible foresight the British track cyclist showed. Her prophecy has come true in spectacular fashion, with GB's girls delivering many of the historic moments for which these Games will be forever remembered. From Jessica Ennis powering to gold in the heptathlon and Charlotte Dujardin's incredible elegance in the dressage, to the hurricane force of boxer Nicola Adams and the immense strength of character shown by our rowers, London 2012 has definitely been about our female athletes. Scroll down for interviews with the winners . Nicola Adams beat China's Cancan Ren to claim gold in the 51kg boxing category yesterday, at the time Britain's 24th gold of the Games . Charlotte Dujardin won her second gold of London 2012 yesterday afternoon in the Individual Dressage . There was late-night glory for Jade Jones in the taekwondo yesterday, Britain's 25th gold . ATHLETICSJessica Ennis (Heptathlon)BOXINGNicola Adams (Flyweight 51kg)TRACK CYCLINGVictoria Pendleton (Keirin)Laura Trott (Omnium)Laura Trott, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell (Team Pursuit)EQUESTRIANCharlotte Dujardin (Individual Dressage)Charlotte Dujardin, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Carl Hester (Team Dressage)ROWINGHelen Glover and Heather Stanning (Women's Pair)Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins (Double sculls)Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking (Lightweight double sculls)TAEKWONDOJade Jones (Under 57kg) In fact, if GB's women were to compete . independently of the men, they would be seventh in the medal table. Their . ten gold medals would put them level with Germany's overall tally and . ahead of France, Italy, Australia and Japan. Team GB's women have five times as many golds as Spain and Brazil, and more than those two nations combined with Japan. And this doesn't take into . consideration two of Britain's equestrian golds - the team dressage . winners were two-thirds female and the team eventing gold medallists . four-fifths. From orchestrating the beat-perfect . movement of the horses in the dressage to executing brutal kicks to the . head in taekwondo, Britain's women have delivered right across the spectrum of Olympic sports. It . was the brilliant row of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the . women's pair that broke Britain's gold medal duck on the fifth day of . the Games, prompting an avalanche of precious metal and glorious . moments. Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon in superb style on Saturday night . Victoria Pendleton took gold in the Keirin, just one of seven gold medallists won by Britain's track cyclists at these Games . And the woman tipped to succeed Pendleton, Laura Trott, won gold in the omnium event . Trott (centre) also collected a second gold with Dani King (left) and Joanna Rowsell in the team pursuit . Trott with London Mayor Boris Johnson at the launch of the RideLondon event today . Their success at Eton Dorney was . followed up by two more rowing golds, including an emotional moment of . fulfillment for Katherine Grainger, who won gold at last in the double . sculls after three consecutive silver. Female success then moved indoors, to . the electric atmosphere of the Velodrome. 'Queen' Victoria Pendleton . may have jumped the gun in the team sprint but she showed her familiar . strength of character to return 24 hours later and blitz the field in . the keirin. And Pendleton's heir apparent Laura . Trott, just 20, exploded onto the biggest stage with twin golds in the . omnium, the most arduous of cycling events, and the team pursuit . alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell. The golden dynasty of British track cycling appears to be set to continue for some time yet. Boxer Nicola Adams (in blue) knocks down China's Cancan Ren in the final of the Flyweight category yesterday . Nicola Adams and Usain Bolt both won gold medals yesterday . Charlotte Dujardin pats her horse Valegro after a flawless six-minute dressage routine delivered her second gold medal of the Games yesterday . Dujardin had already won gold in the Team Dressage event two days earlier, alongside Carl Hester (centre) and Laura Bechtolsheimer (right) Perhaps the defining moment of British success at these Games arrived a few moments before 9pm on Saturday night, when Jessica Ennis, the poster girl of the British team, completed her heptathlon triumph before an adoring crowd in the Olympic Stadium. The sight of British athletes parading around a venue, smiling broadly and with the Union Jack fluttering behind them, before wiping away the mandatory tear on the medal podium, has become a delightfully common one. The glory has continued this week in three contrasting sports. Charlotte Dujardin and Laura Bechtolsheimer won gold in the dressage, an event of grace and elegance, while Nicola Adams and Jade Jones did likewise in boxing and taekwondo, sports of unbridled power and brute force. We have become so accustomed to . hearing 'God Save the Queen' during these Games that it would be easy to . forget the silver and bronze medals, but the female roll of honour goes . on and on. Rebecca Adlington has never finished . out of the medals in an Olympic event, though she wouldn't perhaps of . envisaged two bronze medals from her home Games. Lizzie Armitstead won our first . medal, a silver, in the women's road race - a few seconds of early drama . as three cyclists sprinted down The Mall which truly set the tone for . countless moments of Olympic theatre to come. The judoka Gemma Gibbons took silver and devoted it to her late mum in a heart-wrenching moment. Jade Jones (right) delivers a kick to the head of opponent Yuzhuo Hou of China on her way to gold in the Under-57kg taekwondo competition last night . Helen Glover (left) and Heather Stanning ended Britain's gold drought in the women's pair final on Day Five of the Games . And further female success in the rowing came when Katherine Grainger (left) and Anna Watkins won the double sculls . Their performances drew gushing . praise from Lord Coe, who also pointed out that the London Olympics are . the first ever in which both men and women have been included in every . squad and participated in every sport. He added that the 2012 Games had continued the progress for women's sport made in the last London Games in 1948. 'I think that having 1948 with Fanny Blankers-Koen here really moved that argument for the presence of women in the Games. 'We've had more women competing in these Games (and) some of the big high-profile moments. 'If you look at this morning's media they are focusing on women.' He also praised the participation of . Sarah Attar who became one of the first women to represent Saudi Arabia . at the Olympics when she ran in the 800 metres. Her appearance followed months of . talks, with Saudi Olympic chiefs at one point insisting no women would . be allowed to take part. Lord Coe said she had 'really moved this agenda on in London' International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said: 'If you take, for example, 1984, only 24% of athletes were women. 'This Games, our provisional figure . is that this is just over 44%. So we are nearly at gender equality, . which is really good going.' But he added: 'Just getting all the . NOCs (National Olympic Committees) to send athletes is great, symbolic . and an important symbol, but that is not enough. 'We continue to push the NOCs and . work with the NOCs to provide sporting facilities for women, which is . challenging in some countries. So we will continue to work on that too.' Grainger and Watkins were congratulated by Prime Minister David Cameron at the London Studios this morning . Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hoskins picked up more precious metal in the lightweight double sculls final . And all this, just eight months after a BBC Sports Personality shortlist that didn't contain a single woman. There have been so many brilliant . successes that some pundits have wildly speculated there should be . separate awards for men and women. This is ridiculous - at least half of this year's shortlist will be female. But there is a prize far greater than . this - a generation of girls inspired by this roster of Olympic role . models to get involved in all manner of sports. They want to run, jump and throw like Jess, pedal like Pendleton and even punch like Adams. Sports clubs the length and breadth of the country are already being overwhelmed with new recruits. The Olympics has certainly captured the imagination - . witness the record 80,203 crowd at Wembley Stadium last night for the . women's football final - and the challenge now is to convert this . feel-good factor into Britain's Olympians of the future. Team GB is punching way above its weight in the Olympics, as shown by an interactive atlas which distorts the size of countries to reflect the number of medals won. A researcher at the University of St Andrews has created a map which displays the distribution of medals at London 2012. The online atlas continually updates to show how the medals are spread across the globe as well as the number of medals by population. When countries are reconfigured by population size, Britain swells considerably. This map, created by the University of St Andrews, shows the number of medals won in the Olympics so far for each country . The map shows how well nations are doing by their population size . The USA, predicted to win the most medals, appears smaller than usual and second-place favourites China shrinks to a fraction of its actual size because of its massive population. India is doing poorly considering its population size, while Slovenia and New Zealand are leading countries. The map is updated every hour and can be . viewed at www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics.
female athletes. Scroll down for interviews with seventh in the medal table. Their . ten gold times as many golds as Spain and Brazil, and more to the . head in taekwondo, Britain's women have performances drew gushing . praise from Lord Coe, Team GB is punching way above its weight in the distorts the size of countries to reflect the number of medals won. A researcher at the displays the distribution of medals at London