Jessica Ennis is being heavily tipped to win a medal for Britain, but who is a notable absentee from our list of 50 hopefuls? Photograph: John Giles/PA

London 2012: Who did we miss in our guide to GB's 50 top medal hopes?

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We've chosen our 50 Britons most likely to strike gold. But who should be No51 on the list?

Our panel of seven sports correspondents and editors judged Britain's Olympic hopefuls from across all 26 sports, using six criteria: form and results, world standings, track record, Olympic experience, strength of opposition and predictability of event. After much deliberation we settled on the following 50:

1 Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins (Rowing, women's double sculls)

2 Jessica Ennis (Athletics, heptathlon)

3 Chris Hoy (Cycling, men's keirin, team sprint)

4 Ben Ainslie (Sailing, Finn)

5 Jo Rowsell, Dani King, Wendy Houvenaghel, Laura Trott (Cycling, women's team pursuit)

6 Men's four (Rowing)

7 Ed Clancy, Bradley Wiggins, Geraint Thomas, fourth TBD (Cycling, men's team pursuit)

8 Sarah Stevenson (Taekwondo)

9 Rebecca Adlington (Swimming, 400m/800m freestyle)

10 Phillips Idowu (Athletics, men's triple jump)

11 Mark Cavendish (Cycling, men's road race)

12 Shanaze Reade (Cycling, women's BMX)

13 Heather Stanning and Helen Glover (Rowing, women's pair)

14 Fran Halsall (Swimming, 100m freestyle)

15 Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter (Rowing, men's lightweight double)

16 Victoria Pendleton and three others (Cycling, women's team sprint)

17 Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and two others (Cycling, men's team sprint)

18 Luke Campbell (Boxing, bantamweight)

19 Keri-Anne Payne (Swimming, 10km open water)

20 Women's quadruple sculls (Rowing)

21 Laura Bechtolsheimer (Equestrianism, individual dressage)

22 Jason Kenny (Cycling, men's sprint)

23 Beth Tweddle (Gymnastics, asymmetric bars)

24 Tom Daley (Diving, individual 10m)

25 Victoria Pendleton (Cycling, women's sprint)

26 Ed McKeever (Canoeing, men's K1 200m sprint kayak)

27 Men's lightweight fours (Rowing)

28 Tim Brabants (Canoeing, men's K1 1000m sprint kayak)

29 Dai Greene (Athletics, men's 400m hurdles)

30 Greg Searle plus two of the men's four, plus five others, plus cox (Rowing, men's eight)

31 Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson (Sailing, Star class)

32 Emma Pooley (Cycling, women's time trial)

33 Alistair Brownlee (Triathlon)

34 Mo Farah (Athletics, 10,000m)

35 Khalid Yafai (Boxing, flyweight)

36 Andy Murray (Tennis, men's singles)

37 Mary King, Piggy French, plus William Fox-Pitt, Pippa Funnell and others (Equestrian, eventing team)

38 Bradley Wiggins (Cycling, men's time trial)

39 Louis Smith (Gymnastics, pommel)

40 Jade Jones (Taekwondo)

41 Nicola Adams (Boxing)

42 Jon Schofield and Liam Heath (Rowing, K2 200)

43 Liam Tancock (Swimming, 100m backstroke)

44 Women's hockey team

45 Pete Waterfield/Tom Daley (Diving, 10m synchronised)

46 Rebecca Adlington, Jo Jackson, Jazz Carlin plus one (Swimming, women's 4x200m freestyle relay)

47 Nicole Cook (Cycling, road race)

48 Perri Shakes-Drayton (Athletics, women's 400m hurdles)

49 Women's football team

50 Paula Radcliffe (Athletics, women's marathon)

Come in No51

But no list is definitive, which is where you come in. We want you to tell us who you think is missing from the list and why they should be on it. We'll put together a shortlist of the most popular and best-reasoned suggestions and launch an online poll on Friday. We will then follow athlete No51 in the weeks and months ahead.

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