TWO Crewe-born athletes have won bronze medals at the Tokyo Olympics.

Trampolinist Bryony Page and swimmer Luke Greenbank secured honours this morning (Friday) with Page claiming her second Olympic medal after winning silver at Rio 2016.

While Greenbank grew up in Cockermouth in Cumbria before attending the national swimming centre of excellence in Loughborough, Page has lived at Wrenbury and trained at the Wingate Centre in the village as a youngster.

She is a vice-president of the charity which runs the centre to provide activities for children and young adults with special needs.

Page, 30, qualified from her heats with the third-best overall score and took the lead in the final with a score of 55.735 before China's Zhu Xueying went clear with a 56.635 score.

After she was the first Briton to win an Olympic trampolining medal, Page's career was set back by two ankle operations, but she secured a place at Tokyo by coming fourth in the 2020/21 World Cup rankings.

She told BBC Sport: "My foot is still not fully healed but I was so grateful to be back doing what I love and tried to get back to the standard I was in Rio, and then pushing on. I might not have shown my very best today but it was the best I could have done."

Greenbank, 23, won bronze in the men's 200m backstroke final, touching home in one minute 54.72 seconds to claim GB's sixth swimming medal of the games.

The 23-year-old - who cut his teeth in the sport at Cockermouth Swimming Club and is based at the National Centre in Loughborough - won a silver in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the 4x100m medley with Adam Peaty, James Guy and Ben Proud.

Meanwhile, Crewe's former BMX champion Shanaze Reade has praised history-making riders Bethany Shriever and Kye Whyte.

Shriever claimed a first ever women's BMX gold for GB and Whyte secured a silver in the men's race.

Reade finished sixth in the 2012 London games and after retiring from the sport and track cycling is now a fitness coach.

She is working as an analyst for the BBC and said: "It is a credit to them both. To go to your first Olympic Games is nerve-wracking; to go to your first Olympic Games and actually win it and get a silver medal is unbelievable

"I always say a happy head is fast legs - both of those guys seemed so happy, so relaxed and took it in all stride. Their performances showed that."