Euro 2024 Golden Boot: Harry Kane and Dani Olmo among the 6 winners


England striker Harry Kane and Spain's Dani Olmo are among six players who have shared the Euro 2024 Golden Boot, having each scored three goals during the tournament.

Cody Gakpo (Netherlands), Georges Mikautadze (Georgia), Jamal Musiala (Germany) and Ivan Schranz (Slovakia) completed the tight classification, but neither Kane nor Olmo could break away from the pack with a goal in Sunday's final, which Spain won 2-1 against England.

UEFA confirmed on Friday that it will share the Euro 2024 Golden Boot among six players if Sunday's final between England and Spain fails to produce a clear winner of the trophy.

This marked a change in policy for the tournament organisers, who previously awarded the prize to the player who had registered the most assists when more than one player was tied in goals scored.

At Euro 2020, Cristiano Ronaldo won the Golden Boot because, although he scored the same number of goals as Czech Patrik Schick (5), the Portuguese striker also contributed with an assist.

Three goals is the lowest tally for a Golden Boot winner since Euro 2012, when Fernando Torres (Spain), Mario Gomez (Germany) and Alan Dzagoev (Russia) all finished the tournament with three goals.

Torres was awarded the Golden Boot that year because he played fewer minutes than the other players who had scored three goals.

Kane is the second Englishman to win the award after Alan Shearer finished top scorer with five goals at Euro '96. The 30-year-old also won a Golden Boot after scoring six goals at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The Bayern Munich striker has become only the third player in history to have won the Golden Boot at both the European Championship and the World Cup. Valentin Ivanov (USSR) and Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia) shared the trophy with three other players who scored two goals at the inaugural European Championship in 1960 before sharing it again at the 1962 World Cup with four players who scored four goals across the competition in Chile.

Legendary German striker Gerd Müller won the award at both the European Championship and the World Cup. He scored 10 goals at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico two years before scoring four at Euro 1972.

Kane, who is also his country's all-time leading scorer, opened his account in this year's tournament with a left-footed goal in England's second group game, a 1-1 draw with Denmark. He doubled his tally with an extra-time winner against Slovakia in the round of 16, before scoring the equaliser from the penalty spot against the Netherlands in England's 2-1 semi-final win.

Olmo started just three of Spain's seven games at Euro 2024 before taking Barcelona midfielder Pedri's place in the team after he was injured in the quarter-final win over hosts Germany.

The RB Leipzig midfielder scored in all three of Spain's knockout games before Sunday's final.

Schranz and Musiala scored their goals in the group stage, while Gakpo scored one of their three goals in the Netherlands' round of 16 win over Romania.

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