1920 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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The United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp with a delegation of 233 athletes (217 men and 16 women) in 83 competitions in 20 sports. Then there was the author Theodore Andrea Cook , who took part in the Olympic art competitions and won the silver medal. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete and later politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Fred Adams
• Daniel Bowling
• Hugh Brown
• Jim Cater
• William Cuthbertson

  Bronze flyweight

• Frank Dove
• Harold Franks

  Bronze light heavyweight

• James Gilmour
• Frederick Grace
• Alex Ireland

  Silver flyweight

• Harry Mallin

  Gold middleweight

• George McKenzie

  Bronze bantam weight

• Ronald Rawson

  Gold heavyweight

• Frederic Virtue
• Frederick Whitbread
• Ted White

figure skating

Men MacDonald Beaumont Sydney Wallwork Basil Williams Bronze pair skating

Women Madeleine Beaumont Phyllis Johnson Bronze pair skating Ethel Muckelt

fencing

• Jack Blake
• George Burt
• Ronald Campbell
• Robin Dalglish
• Geoffrey Doyne
• William Hammond
• Martin Holt
• Herbert Huntington
• Evan James
• Cecil Kershaw
• William Marsh
• Robert Montgomerie
• Barry Notley
• Alfred Ridley-Martin
• Edgar Seligman
• Edward Startin
• Roland Willoughby
• Thomas Wand-Tetley

Soccer

• Round of 16

• George Atkinson
• Maurice Bunyan
• Charles Harbidge
• Jackie Hegan
• Kenneth Hunt
• Arthur Knight
• James Mitchell
• Frederick Nicholas
• John Payne
• Herbert Prince
• Richard Sloley

• Without any effort:

• Jack Brennan
• Harry Buck
• Basil H. Gates
• Horace Albert Hambleton
• Wesley Eldred Harding
• Charles Robert Julian
• Humphrey Ward
• George Wiley

Weightlifting

• Percival Mills
• John Paine

hockey

• gold

• Charles Atkin
• Jack Bennett
• Colin Campbell
• Harold Cassels
• Harold Cooke
• Eric Crockford
• Harry Haslam
• Arthur Leighton
• Jack MacBryan
• Sholto Marcon
• George McGrath
• Stanley Shoveller
• William Smith
• Cyril Wilkinson

athletics

• Harold Abrahams
• John Ainsworth-Davis

  Gold 4 x 400 m

• Benjamin Howard Baker
• Philip Noel-Baker

  Silver 1500 m

• Denis Black
• Joe Blewitt

  Silver 3000 m team

• Guy Butler

  Silver 400 m

  Gold 4 x 400 m

• Timothy Carroll
• Charles Clibbon
• Larry Cummins

  Silver cyclo-cross team

• Victor d'Arcy
• Charles Dowson
• Eric Dunbar
• Harry Edward

  Bronze 100 m

  Bronze 200 m

• Wally Freeman

  Silver cyclo-cross team

• George Gray
• Cecil Griffiths

  Gold 4 x 400 m

• Charlie Gunn

  Bronze 10 km walk

• James Hatton

  Silver 3000 m team

• Frank Hegarty

  Silver cyclo-cross team

• William Hehir
• Albert Hill

  Gold 800 m

  Gold 1500 m

  Silver 3000 m team

• William Hill
• Percy Hodge

  Gold 3000 m obstacle

  Silver 3000 m team

• Leslie Housden
• William Hunter
• Carmichael Irwin
• Robert Lindsay

  Gold 4 x 400 m

• Charles Lively
• Duncan McPhee

  Silver 3000 m team

• Bobby Mills
• Edgar Mountain
• Alfred Nichols

  Silver cyclo-cross team

• Tom Nicolson
• George Piper
• Eric Robertson
• William Seagrove

  Silver 3000 m team

• Christopher Vose

  Silver cyclo-cross team

• Edward Wheller
• James Wilson

  Bronze 10,000 m

  Silver cyclo-cross team

• Hedges Worthington-Eyre

Modern pentathlon

• Thomas Wand-Tetley
• Hugh Boustead
• Edward Clarke
• Edward Gedge

polo

• gold

• Frederick W. Barrett
• Vivian Lockett
• Tim Melvill
• John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley

Cycling

• Cyril Alden

  Silver team pursuit

  Silver 50 km

• Harry Genders
• Thomas Harvey
• Thomas Johnson

  Silver sprint

  Silver team pursuit

• Thomas Lance

  Gold tandem sprint

• Henry Lee
• Dave Marsh
• Leon Meredith
• Edward Newell
• William Ormston
• Harry Ryan

  Bronze sprint

  Gold tandem sprint

• Jock Stewart

  Silver team pursuit

• Albert White

  Silver team pursuit

Wrestling

• Edgar Bacon
• Stanley Bacon
• Philip Bernard

  Bronze featherweight, freestyle

• Henry Inman
• Archie MacDonald
• George MacKenzie
• Frederick Mason
• Noel Rhys
• Walter Wilson
• Peter Wright

  Bronze lightweight, freestyle

rowing

• Jack Beresford

  Silver one

• John Alan Campbell
• Sebastian Earl
• Ewart Horsfall
• Walter James
• Robin Johnstone
• Richard Lucas
• Guy Nickalls
• Ralph Shove
• Sidney Swann

  Silver eighth

shoot

• William Ellicott
• William Grosvenor
• Harry Humby
• Enoch Jenkins
• Charles Palmer
• Ernest Pocock
• George Whitaker

swim

Men Harold Annison Bronze 4 x 200 m freestyle Albert Dickin John Dickin Jack Hatfield Rex Lassam Ernest Parker Percy Peter George Robertson Leslie Savage William Stoney Henry Taylor George Webster

Women Lillian Birkenhead Hilda James Silver 4 x 100 m freestyle Connie Jeans Silver 4 x 100 m freestyle Grace McKenzie Silver 4 x 100 m freestyle Charlotte Radcliffe Silver 4 x 100 m freestyle Florence Sancroft

sailing

• Robert Coleman

  Gold 7 m class

• Thomas Hedberg

  Gold 18-foot dinghy

• William Maddison

  Gold 7 m class

• Francis Richards

  Gold 18-foot dinghy

• Cyril Wright

  Gold 7 m class

• Dorothy Wright

  Gold 7 m class

Tug of war

• gold

• George Canning
• Fred Holmes
• Frederick Humphreys
• Edwin Mills
• John Sewell
• James Shepherd
• Harry Stiff
• Ernest Thorne

tennis

Men Alfred Beamish Gordon Lowe Noel Turnbull Gold double men Max Woosnam Gold double men Silver double mixed

Women Geraldine Beamish Silver double women Dorothy Holman Silver single Silver double women Kitty McKane Silver double mixed Bronze single Gold double women Winifred McNair Gold double women

do gymnastics

• 5th place in the team all-round competition

• Sidney Andrew
• Albert Betts
• Albert Cocksedge
• James Cotterell
• William Cowhig
• Sidney Cross
• Horace Dawswell
• JE Dingley
• Sidney Domville
• HW Doncaster
• Reginald Edgecombe
• W. Edwards
• Henry Finchett
• Bernard Franklin
• J. Harris
• Samuel Hodgetts
• Stanley Leigh
• G. Masters
• Ronald McLean
• O. Morris
• EP Ness
• AE Page
• AO pinner
• E. Pugh
• HW Taylor
• YES Walker
• Ralph Yandell

Water polo

• gold

• Charles Bugbee
• Billy Dean
• Chris Jones
• William Peacock
• Noel Purcell
• Paul Radmilovic
• Charles Sydney Smith

Diving

Men Harold Clarke Ernest Walmsley Albert Dickin

Women Eileen Armstrong Silver diving 4 m and 8 m Isabelle White

Web links

• British Olympic team from 1920 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )