1936 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

GBR

4th	7th	3

The United Kingdom participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a delegation of 205 athletes (171 men and 37 women) in 91 competitions in 17 sports. The nation was not represented in the art competitions.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Alf Russell

  Flyweight: 1st round

• Alf Barnes

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

• Jack Treadaway

  Featherweight: quarterfinals

• Freddie Simpson

  Lightweight: 1st round

• Walter Pack

  Welterweight: 2nd round

• Richard Shrimpton

  Middleweight: 2nd round

• Tommy Griffin

  Light Heavyweight: Quarter Finals

• Anthony Stuart

  Heavyweight: quarter-finals

fencing

Men Emrys Lloyd Foil, singles: semi-finals Foil, team: quarter-finals Denis Pearce Foil, singles: preliminary round Foil, team: quarter-finals David Bartlett Foil, singles: preliminary round Foil, team: quarter-finals Christopher Hammersley Foil, team: quarter-finals Geoffrey Hett Foil, team: quarter-finals Roger Tredgold Foil, team: quarter-finals Saber, team: quarter-finals Ian Campbell-Gray Epee, singles: 8th place Epee, team: quarter-finals Charles de Beaumont Epee, singles: preliminary round Epee, team: quarter-finals Douglas Dexter Epee, singles: preliminary round Epee, team: quarter-finals Terry Beddard Epee, team: quarter-finals Bertie Childs Epee, team: quarter-finals Bert Pelling Epee, team: quarter-finals Oliver Trinder Saber, singles: semi-finals Saber, team: quarter-finals Guy Harry Saber, Singles: Quarterfinals Saber, team: quarter-finals Robin Brook Saber, Singles: Quarterfinals Saber, team: quarter-finals Arthur Pilbrow Saber, team: quarter-finals

Women Judy Guinness Foil, singles: semi-finals Betty Arbuthnott Foil, singles: preliminary round

Soccer

Men

• Quarter finals

• Squad

  Bertram Clements

  James Crawford

  John McDonald Dodds

  Maurice Edelston

  Lester Finch

  Robert Patrick Fulton

  Jackie Gardiner

  Haydn Hill

  Guy Holmes

  Bernard Joy

  Joseph Kyle

  Daniel Pettit

  Frederick Riley

  Edgar Shearer

  John Sutcliffe

Weightlifting

Men

• Norman Holroyd

  Featherweight: 15th place

• Fred Marsh

  Featherweight: 19th place

• Alfred Griffin

  Lightweight: 15th place

• Harold Laurance

  Middleweight: 12th place

• Ronald Walker

  Heavyweight: 4th place

canoe

Men

• George Lawton

  Kayak single (folding boat), 10 kilometers: 8. space

• Alex Brearley & John Dudderidge

  Kayak double (folding boat), 10 kilometers: 9. space

athletics

Men Arthur Sweeney 100 meters: semi-finals 200 meters: heats Alan Pennington 100 meters: semi-finals 200 meters: heats 4 x 100 meters: prelims Cyril Holmes 100 meters: quarter-finals Godfrey Brown 400 meters: silver 4 x 400 meters: gold Bill Roberts 400 meters: 4th place 4 x 400 meters: gold Godfrey Rampling 400 meters: semi-finals 4 x 400 meters: gold Brian MacCabe 800 meters: 9th place Jack Powell 800 meters: semi-finals Frank Handley 800 meters: semi-finals Jerry Cornes 1500 meters: 6th place Bobby Graham 1500 meters: heats Sydney Wooderson 1500 meters: DNF / prelims Peter Ward 5000 meters: 11th place Frank Close 5000 meters: 12th place Aubrey Reeve 5000 meters: DNF / final Alec Burns 10,000 meters: 5th place William Eaton 10,000 meters: DNF Jack Potts 10,000 meters: DNF Ernie Harper Marathon: silver Donald Robertson Marathon: 7th place Bert Norris Marathon: DNF Don Finlay 110 meter hurdles: silver 4 x 100 meters: prelims John Thornton 110 meter hurdles: 5th place Ashleigh Pilbrow 110 meter hurdles: prelims John Sheffield 400 meter hurdles: prelims Tom Evenson 3000 meter obstacle: prelims James Ginty 3000 meter obstacle: prelims Charles Wiard 4 x 100 meters: prelims Walter Rangeley 4 x 100 meters: prelims Freddie Wolff 4 x 400 meters: gold Harold Whitlock 50 kilometers of walking: gold Tebbs Lloyd Johnson 50 kilometers of walking: 17th place Joe Hopkins 50 kilometers of walking: DNF Robert Kennedy High jump: 23rd place in qualification Jack Newman High jump: 23rd place in qualification Stan West High jump: 32nd place in qualification Dick Webster Pole vault: 6th place Edward Boyce Long jump: qualification Triple jump: qualification George Traynor Long jump: qualification Bernard Prendergast Discus throw: qualification Laurence Reavell-Carter Discus throw: qualification Norman Drake Hammer throw: qualification

Women Eileen Hiscock 100 meters: semi-finals 4 x 100 meters: silver Barbara Burke 100 meters: semi-finals 4 x 100 meters: silver Audrey Brown 100 meters: heats 4 x 100 meters: silver Violet Webb 80 meter hurdles: semi-finals Kathleen Tiffen 80 meter hurdles: semi-finals Grethe Whitehead 80 meter hurdles: prelims Violet Olney 4 x 100 meters: silver Dorothy Odam-Tyler High jump: silver Nellie Carrington High jump: 9th place Katharine Connal Javelin throw: 14th place

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Jeffrey MacDougall

  Individual: 13th place

• Percy Legard

  Individual: 19th place

• Archibald Jack

  Singles: 31st place

polo

Men

• David Dawnay , Bryan Fowler , Humphrey Guinness & William Hinde

  silver

Cycling

Men

• Charles Holland

  Road race, individual: 4th place

  Road race, team: DNF

• Jackie Bone

  Road race, individual: unknown

  Road race, team: DNF

• Alick Bevan

  Road race, individual: DNF

  Road race, team: DNF

• Bill Messer

  Road race, individual: DNF

  Road race, team: DNF

• Ray Hicks

  Sprint: 3rd round

  1000 meter time trial: 7th place

• Ernest Chambers & Jack Sibbit

  Tandem sprint: 5th place

• Harry Hill , Ernest Johnson , Charles King & Ernie Mills

  4000 meters team pursuit: bronze

horse riding

Men

• Capel Brunker

  Jumping, singles: DNF

  Jumping, team: DNF

• Bill Carr

  Jumping, singles: DNF

  Jumping, team: DNF

• Jack Talbot-Ponsonby

  Jumping, singles: DNF

  Jumping, team: DNF

• Alec Scott

  Eventing, individual: 7th place

  Eventing, team: bronze

• Edward Howard-Vyse

  Eventing, individual: 19th place

  Eventing, team: bronze

• Richard Fanshawe

  Eventing, individual: 26th place

  Eventing, team: bronze

Wrestling

Men

• Norman Morrell

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

  Featherweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Raymond Cazaux

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Arthur Thompson

  Lightweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• William Fox

  Welterweight, freestyle: withdrawal before 3rd round

• Leslie Jeffers

  Middleweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Thomas Ward

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 2nd round

rowing

Men

• Humphrey Warren

  One: semifinals

• Jack Beresford & Leslie Southwood

  Double sculls: gold

• David Burnford & Thomas Cree

  Two without a helmsman: reunion

• Alan Barrett , Martin Bristow , Peter Jackson & Jan Sturrock

  Four without a helmsman: silver

• Tom Askwith , John Cherry , John Couchman , Noel Duckworth , Annesley Kingsford , Desmond Kingsford , Ran Laurie , McAllister Lonnon & Hugh Mason

  Eighth: 4th place

swim

Men Mickey Ffrench-Williams 100 meters freestyle: semi-finals 4 x 200 meters freestyle: 6th place Rome Gabrielsen 100 meter freestyle: preliminary round 4 x 200 meters freestyle: 6th place Frederick Dove 100 meter freestyle: preliminary round Bob Leivers 400 meters freestyle: 7th place 1500 meters freestyle: 6th place 4 x 200 meters freestyle: 6th place William Pearson 400 meter freestyle: preliminary round Norman Wainwright 400 meter freestyle: preliminary round 1500 meters freestyle: semi-finals 4 x 200 meters freestyle: 6th place Jack Besford 100 meters back: semi-finals Jack Middleton 100 meters back: preliminary round

Women Olive Wadham 100 meters freestyle: semi-finals 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 6th place Margery Hinton 100 meter freestyle: preliminary round Zilpha Grant 100 meter freestyle: preliminary round 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 6th place Margaret Jeffrey 400 meters freestyle: semi-finals 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 6th place Gladys Morcom 400 meter freestyle: preliminary round Edna Hughes 4 x 100 meter freestyle: 6th place Lorna Frampton 100 meters back: 6th place Phyllis Harding 100 meters back: 7th place Audrey Hancock 100 meters back: semi-finals Doris Storey 200 meters chest: 6th place Margaret Gomm 200 meters chest: semi-finals Vera Kingston 200 meters chest: preliminary round

sailing

• Peter Markham Scott

  O-dinghy: bronze

• Keith Grogono & William Welply

  Star: 4th place

• Miles Bellville , Christopher Boardman , Russell Harmer , Charles Leaf & Leonard Martin

  6 meter class: gold

• Joseph Neild Compton , John Noel Eddy , Beryl Preston , Francis Richard Preston , Kenneth Huson Preston & Robert Steele

  8 meter class: 6th place

do gymnastics

Women

• Doris Blake , Brenda Crowe , Edna Gross , Clarice Hanson , Mary Heaton , Mary Kelly , Lilian Ridgewell & Marion Wharton

  Team all-around competition: 8th place

Water polo

Men

• 8th place

• Squad

  Leslie Ablett

  Ernest Blake

  David Grogan

  Bill Martin

  David McGregor

  Freddie Milton

  Robert Mitchell

  Alfred North

  Leslie Palmer

  Reg Sutton

  Edward Temme

Diving

Men Frederick Hodges Art jumping: 20th place Doug Tomalin Diving: 9th place

Women Betty Slade Art jumping: 9th place Kathinka Larsen Art jumping: 13th place Jean Gilbert Diving: 7th place Madge Moulton Diving: 18th place

Web links

• British Olympic Team 1936 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )