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Bronze for Team GB's Jenny Jones at Sochi Games

Team GB's Jenny Jones has won Britain's first medal at the Sochi Olympic Games. She came third in women's snowboarding slopestyle, taking the bronze medal. She is the first Britain to ever win a medal on snow.

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Jenny Jones receives her Olympic bronze medal

Jenny Jones has been awarded Britain's first ever Winter Olympic medallist in a snow event after claiming bronze in the snowboard slopestyle in Sochi.

Jenny Jones poses on the podium with her bronze medal won in the women's snowboard slopestyle event. Credit: REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Jenny Jones (right) poses with her fellow medallists in the women's snowboard slopestyle event. Credit: EUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Jones, 33, was the oldest entrant in the final of the competition by more than six years.

She accepted her bronze medal at around 4:50pm GMT.

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