Adam Burgess won a silver medal in the men’s individual canoe on day three of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Adam’s silver medal was the first men’s C1 Olympic medal since David Florence, who also won silver in Beijing 2008.

Burgess competed at his second Olympic Games at Paris 2024 in the men's C1 after showing impressive consistency in 2023. He reached seven consecutive finals over the course of the 2023 season, narrowly missing out on podium finishes and placing fifth at the home World Championships at Lee Valley. He did win his fifth world team medal however with silver in the C1 team event.

Burgess was selected for his first Olympic Games for Tokyo 2020, competing in the men’s C1 and producing a stunning run to take an agonising fourth place, missing out on a medal by 0.16 seconds.

In his early career, Burgess was the first British athlete ever to be crowned world under-23 champion in the C1 after winning gold in Brazil in 2015. Three years earlier in 2012, he won his first European title in the C2.

Burgess picked up his first World Cup medal with bronze in Germany in 2017 and claimed his first individual European Championship medal with silver in the C1 in 2018. In total he has five career World Championships medals and four career European Championship medals. Additionally, he has a European Games bronze from 2023.

Introduced to the sport through the Scouts, Burgess enjoyed his first exposure to an Olympic Games as part of Team GB's Ambition Programme for London 2012.

He is the tenth member of Stafford and Stone Canoe Club to be selected to represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games, continuing the legacy of the club.