Tens of thousands of Team GB fans cheered the Brownlee brothers as they raced to their historic triathlon triumph in Hyde Park.

Alistair Brownlee took gold and his brother Jonny won bronze despite being given a 15-second penalty.

As he closed in on victory Alistair grabbed a Union flag from the crowd, wrapped it around his shoulders and walked triumphantly across the finish line, ahead of Spain's Javier Gomez.

He waited to embrace his brother who had to fight incredibly hard to overcome the penalty given for mounting his bike too quickly after swimming the Serpentine.

Alistair Brownlee's gold medal takes Britain's tally to 19, the same won in the 2008 Beijing Games, which were the country's most successful for a century.