1924 Summer Olympics / Participant (United States)

United States

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The United States participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris with a delegation of 299 athletes, 275 men and 24 women. Aileen Riggin participated in swimming and diving; Wally O'Connor and Johnny Weissmüller in swimming and water polo.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Al Travers
• Ben Rothwell
• George Mulholland
• Adolphe Lefkowitch
• Joseph Lazarus
• Tom Kirby
• Hugh Haggerty
• Ed Greathouse
• Ben Funk
• Edward Eagan
• Raymond Fee

  Flyweight: bronze

• Frederick Boylstein

  Lightweight: bronze

• Salvatore Tripoli

  Bantam weight: silver

• Joseph Salas

  Featherweight: silver

• Fidel LaBarba

  Flyweight: gold

• Jackie Fields

  Featherweight: gold

fencing

Men Alfred Walker Donald Waldhaus Harold Van Buskirk Albert Strauss Leon Shore William Hamilton Russell Brooks Parker Allen Milner Chauncey McPherson Arthur Lyon Thomas Jeter Ernest Gignoux Edwin Fullin Bill Castner George Calnan George Breed Burke Boyce Harold Bloomer Philip Allison

Women Irma Hopper Adeline Gehrig

Soccer

Men American national soccer team Herb Wells Andy Straden Arthur Rudd Teddy O'Connor Burke Jones Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Johnson Raymond Hornberger William Findlay Harry Farrell Jimmy Douglas Irving Davis Sam Dalrymple Aage Brix

Art competitions

Men I. Couturier

Women Miami Belle Louis

athletics

Men

• Frank Zuna
• Eric Wilson
• Earle Wilson
• Ralph Williams
• Homer Whelchel
• Frank Wendling
• John Watters
• Ray Watson
• John Coard Taylor
• William Spencer
• Ralph Spearow
• Albert Rose
• John Romig
• Ray Robertson
• Marvin Rick
• William Richardson
• Lee priest
• Gus Pope
• Tom Poor
• Pete Phelps
• Russell Payne
• Bayes Norton
• William Neufeld
• Jack Merchant
• Chuck Mellor
• James McEachern
• George Lermond
• Morton Kaer
• Robert Juday
• Wayne Johnson
• Pitch Johnson
• Harry Hinkel
• George Hill
• Brutus Hamilton
• Lloyd Hahn
• George Guthrie
• Merwin Graham
• Harry Frieda
• Charles H. Foster
• Eastman Doolittle
• Ray Dodge
• Michael Devaney
• Chan Coulter
• William Comins
• Billy Churchill
• Ray Buker
• Charles Brookins
• Chester Bowman
• Clifford Argue
• Otto Anderson
• Norman Anderson
• Karl Anderson
• Willard Tibbetts

  3000 m team: bronze

• Ivan Riley

  400 m hurdles: bronze

• Joie Ray

  3000 m team: bronze

• Eugene Colonel

  Javelin throw: bronze

• Thomas Lieb

  Discus throw: bronze

• Robert LeGendre

  Pentathlon: bronze

• Leo Larrivee

  3000 m team: bronze

• Edward Kirby

  3000 m team: bronze

• Ralph Hills

  Shot put: bronze

• Schuyler Enck

  800 m: bronze

• Clarence DeMar

  Marathon: bronze

• William Cox

  3000 m team: bronze

• James Connolly

  3000 m team: bronze

• James Brooker

  Pole vault: bronze

• Arthur Studenroth

  Cross country running team: silver

• Charles Paddock

  200 m: silver

• Emerson Norton

  Decathlon: silver

• Matt McGrath

  Hammer throw: silver

• James Henigan

  Cross country running team: silver

• Glenn Hartranft

  Shot put: silver

• John Gray

  Cross country running team: silver

• Glenn Graham

  Pole vault: silver

• Edward Gourdin

  Long jump: silver

• Horatio Fitch

  400 m: silver

• August Fager

  Cross country running team: silver

• Leroy Brown

  High jump: silver

• Verne Booth

  Cross country running team: silver

• Fred Tootell

  Hammer throw: gold

• Morgan Taylor

  400 m hurdles: gold

• William Stevenson

  4 x 400 meter relay: gold

• Loren Murchison

  4 x 100 meter relay: gold

• Oliver MacDonald

  4 x 400 meter relay: gold

• Al LeConey

  4 x 100 meter relay: gold

• Daniel Kinsey

  110 m hurdles: gold

• Frank Hussey

  4 x 100 meter relay: gold

• DeHart Hubbard

  Long jump: gold

• Alan Helffrich

  4 x 400 meter relay: gold

• Commodore Cochran

  4 x 400 meter relay: gold

• Louis Clarke

  4 x 100 meter relay: gold

• Lee Barnes

  Pole vault: gold

• Earl Johnson

  Cross-country run single: bronze

  Cross country running team: silver

• Jackson Scholz

  100 m: silver

  200 m: gold

• Harold Osborn

  High jump: gold

  Decathlon: gold

• Bud Houser

  Shot put: gold

  Discus throw: gold

Modern pentathlon

Men Don Scott Frederick Pitts Ernest Harmon George Bare

polo

• Rodman Wanamaker

  silver

• Frederick Roe

  silver

• Thomas Hitchcock

  silver

• Elmer Boeseke

  silver

Cycling

Men Victor Hopkins Gustav Hentschel Iggy Gronkowski William Fenn John Boulicault

horse riding

Men Vernon Padgett Frank Carr Frederic Bontecou John Barry Sloan Doak Versatility: bronze

Wrestling

• Walter Wright
• Charles Strack
• Herschel Smith
• Perry Martter
• Milton MacWilliam
• Guy Lookabaugh
• William Byron Johnson
• Roger Flanders
• Bryan Hines

  Bantamweight: bronze

• Chester Newton

  Featherweight: silver

• Russell Vis

  Lightweight: gold

• Harry Steel

  Heavyweight: gold

• John Spellman

  Light Heavyweight: Gold

• Robin Reed

  Featherweight: gold

rowing

• Henry Welsford

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Edward Mitchell

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• John Kennedy

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Sidney Jelinek

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Robert Gerhardt

  Four with helmsman: bronze

• Edward Jennings

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• Harold Wilson

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• Leon Butler

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• William Gilmore

  One: silver

• John B. Kelly senior

  Double twos: gold

• Paul Costello

  Double twos: gold

• Alfred Wilson

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• Laurence Stoddard

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• Benjamin Spock

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• Frederick Sheffield

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• James Stillman Rockefeller

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• John Miller

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• Alfred Lindley

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• Howard Kingsbury

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

• Leonard Carpenter

  Eighth with helmsman: gold

rugby

• gold

  Alan Frank Williams

  Alan Valentine

  Edward Turkington

  Norman Slater

  Colby Slater

  Rudolph Scholz

  William Rogers

  John Patrick

  John O'Neil

  Caesar Mannelli

  Richard Hyland

  Edward Graff

  Linn Farish

  Charlie Doe

  George Dixon

  Robert Devereaux

  Dudley DeGroot

  Norman Cleaveland

  Philip Clark

shoot

• William Whaling
• John Grier
• William Frazer
• Wilford Fawcett
• Bernard Betke
• Dennis Fenton

  Running stag single shot team 100 m: bronze

• Carl Osburn

  Free rifle 600 m: silver

• Marcus Dinwiddie

  Small caliber lying 50 m: silver

• William Silkworth

  Trap team: gold

• Samuel Sharman

  Trap team: gold

• Clarence Platt

  Trap team: gold

• John Noel

  Trap team: gold

• Fred Etchen

  Trap team: gold

• Frank Hughes

  Trap: bronze

  Trap team: gold

• John Boles

  Running stag single shot 100 m: gold

  Running stag single shot team 100 m: bronze

• Sidney Hinds

  Free rifle team: gold

• Joseph Crockett

  Free rifle team: gold

• Henry Bailey

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: gold

• Walter Stokes

  Free rifle team: gold

  Running stag single shot team 100 m: bronze

• Raymond Coulter

  Free rifle team: gold

  Running stag single shot team 100 m: bronze

• Morris Fisher

  Free rifle 600 m: gold

  Free rifle team: gold

swim

Men Lester Smith Adam Smith Henry Luning Bill Kirschbaum 200 m chest: bronze Samuel Kahanamoku 100 m freestyle: bronze Paul Wyatt 100 m back: silver Duke Kahanamoku 100 m freestyle: silver Bob Skelton 200 m chest: gold Warren Kealoha 100 m back: gold Richard Howell 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: gold Harrison Glancy 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: gold Ralph Breyer 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: gold Wallace O'Connor 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: gold Johnny Weissmüller 100 m freestyle: gold 400 m freestyle: gold 4 x 200 meter relay: gold

Women Matilda Scheurich Eleanor Coleman Florence Chambers Aileen Riggin 100 m back: bronze Helen Wainwright 400 m freestyle: silver Agnes Geraghty 200 m chest: silver Martha Norelius 400 m freestyle: gold Euphrasia Donnelly 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: gold Sybil Bauer 100 m back: gold Mariechen Wehselau 100 m freestyle: silver 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: gold Ethel Lackie 100 m freestyle: gold 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: gold Gertrude Ederle 100 m freestyle: bronze 400 m freestyle: bronze 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: gold

tennis

Men Watson Washburn Richard Williams Mixed: gold Frank Hunter Double: gold Vincent Richards Single: gold Double: gold Mixed: silver

Women Lillian Sharman Eleanor Goss Marion Zinderstein Jessup Mixed: silver Helen Wills Moody Single: gold Double: gold Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Double: gold Mixed: gold

do gymnastics

Men

• Max Wandrer
• Frank Safanda
• Curt Rottmann
• John Pearson
• Rudolph Novak
• John Mais
• Alfred Jochim
• Frank Kriz

  Horse jump: gold

Water polo

• bronze

  Herbert Vollmer

  George Schroth

  John Norton

  George Frederick Mitchell

  Frederick Lauer

  Oliver Horn

  Arthur Austin

  Wallace O'Connor

  Johnny Weissmüller

Diving

Men Benjamin Thrash Clarence Pinkston Artistic jumping 3 m: bronze Diving 10 m: bronze David case Diving 10 m: silver Pete Desjardins Artistic jumping 3 m: silver Al White Jump 3 m: gold Diving 10 m: gold

Women Helen Meany Caroline Fletcher Artistic jumping 3 m: bronze Aileen Riggin Artistic jumping 3 m: silver Caroline Smith Diving 10 m: gold Elizabeth Becker Jump 3 m: gold Diving 10 m: silver

Web links

• American Olympic team from 1924 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )