British Empire Games 1934 / Athletics

At the British Empire Games in London in 1934 , a total of 30 athletics competitions were held between August 4th and 7th, 21 for men and nine for women. The venue was the White City Stadium .

Men

100 yard run

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Arthur Sweeney	CLOSELY	10.0
2	Marthinus Theunissen	SAF	10.0
3	Ian Young	SCO	10.1
4th	George Saunders	CLOSELY
5	Robin Murdoch	SCO
6th	Howard Yates	OUT

Final: August 4th

220 yards run

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Arthur Sweeney	CLOSELY	21.9
2	Marthinus Theunissen	SAF	22.0
3	Walter Rangeley	CLOSELY	22.1
4th	Robin Murdoch	SCO
5	Ian Young	SCO
6th	Frank Nicks	CAN

Final: August 7th

440 yards run

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Godfrey Rampling	CLOSELY	48.0
2	Bill Roberts	CLOSELY	48.5
3	Crew Stoneley	CLOSELY	48.6
4th	William Fritz	CAN
5	John Addison	CAN
6th	Alan Hunter	SCO

Final: August 7th

880 yards run

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Phil Edwards	BGU	1: 54.2
2	Willie Botha	SAF	1: 55.5
3	Hamish Stothard	SCO	1: 55.6
4th	John Powell	CLOSELY
5	Jerry Sampson	CAN
6th	Jack Cooper	CLOSELY

Final: August 6th

Mile run

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jack Lovelock	NZL	4: 12.8
2	Sydney Wooderson	CLOSELY	4: 13.4
3	Jerry Cornes	CLOSELY	4: 13.6
4th	Aubrey Reeve	CLOSELY
5	Bobby Graham	SCO
6th	Les Wade	CAN
7th	Ken Harris	WHALE
8th	Horace Craske	CLOSELY

Final: August 7th

Three mile run

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Wally Beavers	CLOSELY	14: 32.6
2	Cyril Allen	CLOSELY	14: 37.8
3	Alec Burns	CLOSELY	14: 45.4
4th	Scotty Rankine	CAN
5	Jack Parker	NIR
6th	Harold Thompson	SAF
7th	Jackie Laidlaw	SCO
8th	Lloyd Longman	CAN

4th of August

Six mile run

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Arthur Penny	CLOSELY	31: 00.6
2	Scotty Rankine	CAN	31: 02.4
3	Arthur Furze	CLOSELY	31: 03.6
4th	Jack Holden	CLOSELY
5	Jack Potts	CLOSELY
6th	Roy Oliver	CAN
7th	Lloyd Longman	CAN
	Mannie Dookie	TRI	DNF

6th of August

marathon

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Harold Webster	CAN	2:40:36
2	Donald Robertson	SCO	2:45:08
3	Dunky Wright	SCO	2:56:20
4th	Harry Wood	CLOSELY	2:58:41
5	Percy Wyer	CAN	3:00:40
6th	Wilf Short	WHALE	3:02:56
7th	Reg Nicholls	CLOSELY	3:05:23

August 7th

120 yard hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Don Finlay	CLOSELY	15.2
2	Jim Worrall	CAN	15.5
3	Ashleigh Pilbrow	CLOSELY	15.7
4th	Kind of Ravensdale	CAN
5	John Gabriel	CLOSELY
	Johannes Viljoen	SAF	DNF

Final: August 6th

440 yard hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Alan Hunter	SCO	55.2
2	Charles Reilly	OUT	55.8
3	Ralph Brown	CLOSELY	56.0
4th	Jim Worrall	CAN
5	John Stone	CLOSELY
6th	Ashleigh Pilbrow	CLOSELY

4th of August

Two mile obstacle course

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Stanley Scarsbrook	CLOSELY	10: 23.4
2	Tom Evenson	CLOSELY	10: 25.8
3	George Bailey	CLOSELY
4th	Pat Campbell	CLOSELY
5	Earl Moore	CAN
6th	Walter Gunn	SCO

August 7th

4-by-110-yard relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	England	Everard Davis George Saunders Walter Rangeley Arthur Sweeney	42.2
2	Canada	Birchall Pearson Frank Nicks Allan Poole Bill Christie	42.5
3	Scotland	Archie Turner David Brownlee Robin Murdoch Ian Young	43.0
4th	Australia	Noel Dempsey Fred Woodhouse John Horsfall Howard Yates
5	Bermuda	Stan Gascoigne Buddy Card Frank Peniston Richard Freisenbruch
6th	British India	Gyan Bhalla Jehangir Khan Ronald Vernieux Niranjan Singh

4 by 440 yards relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	England	Denis Rathbone Geoffrey Blake Crew Stoneley Godfrey Rampling	3: 16.8
2	Canada	William Fritz John Addison Art Scott Ray Lewis	3: 17.4
3	Scotland	Ronnie Wallace Ronald Wylde Hamish Stothard Alan Hunter

high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Edwin Thacker	SAF	1.90
2	Joe Haley	CAN	1.90
3	John Michie	SCO	1.90
4th	Jack Metcalfe	OUT	1.88
5	Arthur Gray	CLOSELY	1.85
6th	Stanley West	CLOSELY	1.83
	William Land	CLOSELY	1.83
	Joseph MacKenzie	JAM	1.83

6th of August

Pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Syl Apps	CAN	3.88
2	Alf Gilbert	CAN	3.81
3	Fred Woodhouse	OUT	3.66
4th	Andries du Plessis	SAF	3.66
5	Frank Phillipson	CLOSELY	3.66
6th	Patrick Ogilvie	SCO	3.50

6th of August

Long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Sam Richardson	CAN	7.17
2	Johann Luckhoff	SAF	7.10
3	Jack Metcalfe	OUT	6.93
4th	Sandy Duncan	CLOSELY	6.91
5	Ray Cooper	CAN	6.83
6th	Leslie Butler	CLOSELY	6.79

August 7th

Triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jack Metcalfe	OUT	15.63
2	Sam Richardson	CAN	14.65
3	Harold Brainsby	NZL	14.62
4th	Edward Boyce	NIR	13.80
5	Jack Higginson Jr.	CLOSELY	13.73
6th	Bertie Shillington	NIR	13.69

4th of August

Shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Harry Hart	SAF	14.67
2	Robert Howland	CLOSELY	13.53
3	Kenneth Pridie	CLOSELY	13.43
4th	George Walla	CAN	13.23
5	Harry Reeves	CLOSELY	12.76
6th	Anthony Watson	CLOSELY	12.18
7th	Arthur Lewis	WHALE	11.70
8th	George Sutherland	CAN

6th of August

Discus throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Harry Hart	SAF	41.53
2	Douglas Bell	CLOSELY	40.44
3	Bernard Prendergast	JAM	40.23
4th	George Walla	CAN	39.39
5	William Land	CLOSELY	39.34
6th	Kenneth Pridie	CLOSELY	37.78
7th	George Sutherland	CAN

4th of August

Hammer throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Malcolm Nokes	CLOSELY	48.25
2	George Sutherland	CAN	46.24
3	William Mackenzie	SCO	42.49
4th	Robert Waters	CAN	39.88
5	Douglas Bell	CLOSELY	38.78
6th	Norman Drake	CLOSELY	35.79

August 7th

Javelin throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Bob Dixon	CAN	60.02
2	Harry Hart	SAF	58.27
3	Johann Luckhoff	SAF	56.49
4th	Stanley Wilson	CLOSELY	54.74
5	Joseph Heath	CLOSELY	53.41
6th	George Walla	CAN	52.16

August 7th

Women

100 yard run

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Eileen Hiscock	CLOSELY	11.3
2	Hilda Strike	CAN	11.5
3	Lillian Chalmers	CLOSELY	11.6
4th	Elsie Maguire	CLOSELY	11.6
5	Ethel Johnson	CLOSELY	11.7
6th	Audrey Dearnley	CAN

Final: August 6th

220 yards run

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Eileen Hiscock	CLOSELY	25.0
2	Aileen Meagher	CAN	25.4
3	Nellie Halstead	CLOSELY	25.6
4th	Lillian Palmer	CAN
5	Hilda Cameron	CAN
6th	Ethel Johnson	CLOSELY

Final: August 7th

880 yards run

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Gladys Lunn	CLOSELY	2: 19.4
2	Ida Jones	CLOSELY	2: 21.0
3	Dorothy Butterfield	CLOSELY	2: 21.4
4th	Constance Furneaux	CLOSELY
5	Doris Morgan	SAF
6th	Violet Smith	CAN
7th	Mildred Storrar	SCO

6th of August

80 meter hurdles

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marjorie Clark	SAF	11.8
2	Elizabeth Taylor	CAN	11.9
3	Elsie Green	CLOSELY	12.3
4th	Roxanne Atkins	CAN
5	Alda Wilson	CAN
6th	Phyllis Goad	CLOSELY

Final: August 7th

440 yards relay (220 + 110 + 110)

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	England	Nellie Halstead Eileen Hiscock Elsie Maguire	49.4
2	Canada	Aileen Meagher Audrey Dearnley Hilda Strike	50.2
3	Southern Rhodesia	Dorothy Ballantyne Cynthia Keay Mollie Bragg	52.0
4th	South African Union	Doris Morgan Barbara Burke Marjorie Clark
	Scotland	Sheena Dobbie Cathie Jackson Barbara Barnetson	DNF

660 yards relay (220 + 220 + 110 + 110)

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Canada	Lillian Palmer Betty White Aileen Meagher Audrey Dearnley	1: 14.4
2	England	Eileen Hiscock Ivy Walker Nellie Halstead Ethel Johnson
3	Scotland	Sheena Dobbie Cathie Jackson Margaret Mackenzie Joan Cunningham

high jump

space	Athlete	country	(m)
1	Marjorie Clark	SAF	1.60
2	Eva Dawes	CAN	1.57
3	Margaret Bell	CAN	1.52
4th	Mary Milne	CLOSELY	1.52
5	Isabella Miller	CAN	1.47
6th	Marjorie Okell	CLOSELY	1.44
7th	Hilda Thorogood	CLOSELY
8th	Elsie Harris	CLOSELY

4th of August

Long jump

space	Athlete	country	(m)
1	Phyllis Bartholomew	CLOSELY	5.47
2	Evelyn Goshawk	CAN	5.41
3	Violet Webb	CLOSELY	5.23
4th	Mary Frizzell	CAN	5.21
5	Doris Razzell	CLOSELY	5.18
6th	Margaret Fitzpatrick	CAN	4.94
7th	Mollie Bragge	RHO
8th	Beatrice Proctor	RHO

August 7th

Javelin throw

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Gladys Lunn	CLOSELY	32.19
2	Edith Halstead	CLOSELY	30.94
3	Margaret Cox	CLOSELY	30.08
4th	Louise Fawcett	CLOSELY	29.28
	Marjorie Clark	SAF	DNS

4th of August

Edith Halstead was later identified as Edwin "Eddie" Halstead, brother of Nellie Halstead.

Web links

• Results on the Commonwealth Games Federation website
• II Commonwealth Game, London 1934 on trackfield.brinkster.net
• II Commonwealth Games on TOPS in athletics