1896 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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The United Kingdom participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece , with a delegation of ten athletes. Actually, you won a gold and a bronze medal more, but these were not taken into account, as a mixed double was played with another nation.

Medalist

Olympic champion

Surname	sport	competition
John Pius Boland	tennis	singles
Launceston Elliot	Weightlifting	One-armed

Second

Surname	sport	competition
Launceston Elliot	Weightlifting	Two-armed
Grantley Goulding	athletics	110 meter hurdles
Frederick Keeping	Cycling	12 hour race

third

Surname	sport	competition
Charles Gmelin	athletics	400 meters
Edward Battell	Cycling	Road racing

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Launceston Elliot

  One-armed: Olympic champion

  Two-armed: second

athletics

Athletes	competition	leader		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank
Men
Charles Gmelin	100 m	12.9 s	3	eliminated
	400 m	1: 00.5 min	2	56.7 s	3	3
Launceston Elliot	100 m	12.9 s	3	eliminated
George Marshall	100 m	unknown	5	eliminated
	800 m			eliminated

• Grantley Goulding

  110 meter hurdles: second

• George Stuart Robertson

  Discus throw: 4th place

Cycling

• Edward Battell

  Road race: 3rd place

  333 ⅓ m time trial: 4th place

  100 kilometers: DNF

• Frederick Keeping

  12-hour race: second

  333 ⅓ m time trial: 5th place

Wrestling

• Launceston Elliot

  Greco-Roman: 4th place

shoot

• Sidney Merlin

  Service revolver (25 m): ??

  Pistol (25 m): DNS

  Military rifle (300 m): ??

  Military rifle (200 m): 10th place

• Machonet

  Military rifle (200 m): ??

tennis

• John Pius Boland

  Individual: Olympic champion

  Doubles: Olympic champion ( see: Mixed team  )

• George Stuart Robertson

  Singles: 8th place

  Doubles: 3rd place ( see: Mixed team  )

do gymnastics

• Launceston Elliot

  Dew slope: 5th place

swell

• Olympic Team of Great Britain from 1896 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results 100 km
2. ↑ Results 25 m pistol