British Empire Games 1934

British Empire Games 1934
venue	London , England
participating countries	17th
Participating athletes	about 500
Competitions	68 in 7 sports
Opening ceremony	4th August 1934
Closing ceremony	August 11, 1934

The British Empire Games in 1934 were the second edition of the event now known as the Commonwealth Games . They took place from August 4-11, 1934 in London , the capital of the United Kingdom .

68 competitions were held in the sports of bowls , boxing , athletics , cycling , wrestling , rowing and swimming (including water jumping ). Around 500 athletes from 17 countries took part. Almost all of the events took place at the White City Stadium , while the cycling competitions were held at the Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester .

Athletics competitions for women were a new feature. The organizers made sure to only include disciplines that were considered “not too exhaustive”. The running competitions were limited to sprints and a 4 × 220 yards relay. The Women's World Games of the Women's Sports Federation FSFI were integrated into the games.

With this game, the idea of John Astley Cooper to hold the Pan-British Olympic Games was implemented. As early as 1891, a year before Pierre de Coubertin's discussion of the international Olympic Games , Astley Cooper had launched the idea of the Olympic Games only for members of the Empire (and the USA). The amateur regulations were settled by mutual agreement, as there was no state amateur in the Empire.

participating countries

Participating countries (purple: first participation)

Australia Australia
Bermuda 1910 Bermuda
British Guiana 1919 British Guiana
England England
Hong Kong 1910 Hong Kong
British India British India

Ireland 1922 Irish Free State
Jamaica 1906 Jamaica
Canada 1921 Canada
Newfoundland Newfoundland
New Zealand New Zealand
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland

Rhodesia South 1923 Southern Rhodesia
Scotland Scotland
South Africa 1928 South African Union
Trinidad and Tobago 1889 Trinidad and Tobago
Wales 1807 Wales

Results

(The links lead to detailed results pages)

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	England England	29	20th	24	73
2	Canada 1921 Canada	17th	25th	9	51
3	Australia Australia	8th	4th	2	14th
4th	South Africa 1928 South African Union	7th	10	5	22nd
5	Scotland Scotland	5	4th	17th	26th
6th	New Zealand New Zealand	1	-	2	3
7th	British Guiana 1919 British Guiana	1	-	-	1
8th	Wales 1807 Wales	-	3	3	6th
9	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland	-	1	2	3
10	Jamaica 1906 Jamaica	-	1	1	2
11	Rhodesia South 1923 Southern Rhodesia	-	-	2	2
12	British India British India	-	-	1	1

Web links

Commons : British Empire Games 1934 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Commonwealth Games Federation

Individual evidence

↑ Arnd Krüger (1986): Was John Astley Cooper the inventor of the modern Olympic Games? In: LOUIS BURGENER u. a. (Ed.): Sport und Kultur , Vol. 6. Bern: Lang, 72 - 81. Katharine Moore (1989): 'The warmth of comradeship': the first British empire games and imperial solidarity, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport 6: 2, 242-251. Katharine Moore (1991): A neglected imperialist: the promotion of the British empire in the writing of John Astley Cooper, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport 8: 2, 256 -269.
^ Daniel Gorman: Amateurism, Imperialism, Internationalism and the First British Empire Games. International Journal of the History of Sport 27 (2010), 4, 611-634.

[1] Arnd Krüger (1986): Was John Astley Cooper the inventor of the modern Olympic Games? In: LOUIS BURGENER u. a. (Ed.): Sport und Kultur , Vol. 6. Bern: Lang, 72 - 81. Katharine Moore (1989): 'The warmth of comradeship': the first British empire games and imperial solidarity, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport 6: 2, 242-251. Katharine Moore (1991): A neglected imperialist: the promotion of the British empire in the writing of John Astley Cooper, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport 8: 2, 256 -269.

[2] Daniel Gorman: Amateurism, Imperialism, Internationalism and the First British Empire Games. International Journal of the History of Sport 27 (2010), 4, 611-634.