1924 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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The United Kingdom took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris under the name Great Britain with a delegation of 267 athletes (239 men and 28 women) in 115 competitions in 18 competitions.

The British athletes won 9 gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze medals, putting Great Britain in fourth place in the medal table. Olympic champions were the athletes Harold Abrahams over 100 meters, Eric Liddell over 400 meters and Douglas Lowe over 800 meters, the boxers Harry Mallin in the middleweight and Harry Mitchell in the light heavyweight, the swimmer Lucy Morton over 200 meters chest, the rowers Jack Beresford in the single as well Charles Eley , James MacNabb , Robert Morrison and Terence Sanders in the four without a helmsman and finally the marksmen Cyril Mackworth-Praed , Philip Neame , Herbert Perry and Allen Whitty in a double shot on the running Hirsch in the team classification at 100 meters. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was water polo player Arthur Hunt .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• James McKenzie

  Flyweight: silver

• Ernest Warwick

  Flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Alf Barber

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Les Tarrant

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Harry Dingley

  Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Arthur Beavis

  Featherweight: eliminated in the second round

• George Shorter

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Walter White

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Patrick O'Hanrahan

  Welterweight: eliminated in the second round

• Johnny Basham

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Harry Mallin

  Middleweight: gold

• John Elliott

  Middleweight: silver

• Harry Mitchell

  Light Heavyweight: Gold

• John Courtis

  Light Heavyweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Arthur Clifton

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Cornelius O'Kelly

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

fencing

Men

• Edgar Seligman

  Foil: Final round not finished

  Saber: eliminated in the semifinals

  Foil team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Robert Montgomerie

  Foil: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Epee team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Geoffrey Doyne

  Foil: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Foil team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Frederick Sherriff

  Foil: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Foil team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Roland Willoughby

  Foil team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Charles Biscoe

  Epee: eliminated in the semifinals

  Epee team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Robert Frater

  Epee: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Epee team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Martin Holt

  Epee: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Epee team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Barry Notley

  Epee team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Archibald Craig

  Epee team: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Robin Dalglish

  Saber: eliminated in the semifinals

  Saber team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Cecil Kershaw

  Saber: eliminated in the 1st round

  Saber team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Archie Corble

  Saber: eliminated in the 1st round

  Saber team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Edward Brookfield

  Saber team: eliminated in the 1st round

• William Marsh

  Saber team: eliminated in the 1st round

• William Hammond

  Saber team: eliminated in the 1st round

Women

• Gladys Davis

  Foil: silver

• Muriel Freeman

  Foil: 4th place

• Gladys Daniell

  Foil: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Alice Walker

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

Weightlifting

• Alfred Baxter

  Featherweight: 7th place

• Augustus Cummins

  Featherweight: 16th place

• Thomas Taylor

  Featherweight: 17th place

• William Wyatt

  Lightweight: 17th place

• John Tooley

  Lightweight: 19th place

• William Randall

  Lightweight: 20th place

• Frederick Attenborough

  Middleweight: 17th place

• John S. Austin

  Middleweight: 22nd place

• Fred Lowes

  Middleweight: 23rd place

• Harold Wood

  Heavyweight: 17th place

Art competitions

• Charles Williams
• Charles Simpson
• Katherine Maltwood
• Robert Graves
• Peshoton Dubash
• Patrick Chalmers
• George Bamber
• Dorothy Margaret Stuart

  Literature: silver

athletics

Men

• Harold Abrahams

  100 m: gold

  200 m: 6th place

  4 x 100 meter relay: silver

• William Nichol

  100 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  200 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter relay: silver

• Walter Rangeley

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: silver

• Lancelot Royle

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: silver

• Eric Liddell

  200 m: bronze

  400 m: gold

• Tom Matthewman

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Guy Butler

  400 m: bronze

  4 x 400 meter relay: bronze

• Edward Toms

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: bronze

• George Renwick

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: bronze

• Douglas Lowe

  800 m: gold

  1500 m: 4th place

• Henry Stallard

  800 m: 4th place

  1500 m: bronze

• Harry Houghton

  800 m: 9th place

• Edgar Mountain

  800 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Sonny Spencer

  1500 m: 11th place

• Cyril Ellis

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Charles Clibbon

  5000 m: 6th place

  10,000 m: 14th place

• Frank Saunders

  5000 m: 10th place

• Charles Johnstone

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ralph Starr

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ernie Harper

  10,000 m: 5th place

  Cross-country run: 4th place

  Cross-country team: race not finished

• Halland Britton

  10,000 m: 6th place

• Eddie Webster

  10,000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  Cross-country run: race not finished

  Cross-country team: race not finished

• Sam Ferris

  Marathon: 5th place

• Arthur Farrimond

  Marathon: 17th place

• Jack McKenna

  Marathon: 27th place

• Bobby Mills

  Marathon: race not finished

• Duncan Wright

  Marathon: race not finished

• Ernest Leatherland

  Marathon: race not finished

• Fred Gaby

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Eric Harrison

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Leopold Partridge

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• David Burghley

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Fred Blackett

  400 m hurdles: final run not finished

• Wilfrid Tatham

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Evelyn Montague

  3000 m obstacle: 6th place

• Sidney Newey

  3000 m obstacle: final run not finished

• David Cummings

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Richard Ripley

  4 x 400 meter relay: bronze

• Bertram Macdonald

  3000 m team: silver

• Herbert Johnston

  3000 m team: silver

• George Webber

  3000 m team: silver

• Walter Porter

  3000 m team: silver

• Arthur Clark

  3000 m team: silver

• William Seagrove

  3000 m team: silver

• Gordon Goodwin

  10 km walking: silver

• Ernest Clark

  10 km walking: 6th place

• Gordon Watts

  10 km walking: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Arthur Sewell

  Cross-country run: race not finished

  Cross-country team: race not finished

• John Benham

  Cross-country run: race not finished

  Cross-country team: race not finished

• Joseph Williams

  Cross-country run: race not finished

  Cross-country team: race not finished

• Robert Dickinson

  High jump: 15th place

• Arthur Willis

  High jump: without a valid height

• Crawford Kerr

  High jump: without a valid height

• John Campbell

  Pole vault: 15th place

• Chris Mackintosh

  Long jump: 6th place

• John Odde

  Triple jump: 12th place

• Jack Higginson

  Triple jump: 13th place

• Harold Langley

  Triple jump: 15th place

• Charles Beckwith

  Shot put: 20th place

• Rex Woods

  Shot put: 24th place

• Malcolm Nokes

  Hammer throw: bronze

• Jock Dalrymple

  Javelin throw: 24th place

• Henri Dauban de Silhouette

  Javelin throw: 27th place

• Donald Spark

  Pentathlon: 13th place

  Decathlon: 25th place

• Percy Spark

  Pentathlon: 27th place

  Decathlon: competition not finished

Modern pentathlon

• George Vokins

  Singles: 7th place

• David Turquand-Young

  Individual: 13th place

• Brian Horrocks

  Individual: 19th place

• Derick Barton

  Singles: 28th place

polo

• bronze

  Freddie Guest

  Denis Bingham

  Frederick W. Barrett

  Percival Wise

Cycling

• Andy Wilson

  Road race: 22nd place

  Road team classification: 7th place

• Eric Pilcher

  Road race: 23rd place

  Road team classification: 7th place

• Dave Marsh

  Road race: 24th place

  Road team classification: 7th place

• Samuel Hunter

  Road race: 34th place

  Road team classification: 7th place

• Henry Fuller

  Track sprint: eliminated in the 5th round

• George Owen

  Track sprint: eliminated in the 4th round

• Frederick Habberfield

  Rail tandem: 4th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 7th place

• Thomas Harvey

  Rail tandem: 4th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 7th place

• Cyril Alden

  Track 50 km: silver

• Harry Wyld

  Track 50 km: bronze

• Henry Lee

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 7th place

• Jock Stewart

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: 7th place

horse riding

• Philip Bowden-Smith

  Show jumping: 4th place

  Versatility: 29th place

  Show jumping team: 7th place

  Versatility team: 6th place

• Capel Brunker

  Show jumping: 24th place

  Show jumping team: 7th place

• Geoffrey Brooke

  Show jumping: 27th place

  Show jumping team: 7th place

• Keith Hervey

  Show jumping: eliminated

  Versatility: 19th place

  Show jumping team: 7th place

  Versatility team: 6th place

• Edward de Fonblanque

  Versatility: 6th place

  Versatility team: 6th place

• Alec death

  Versatility: 22nd place

  Versatility team: 6th place

Wrestling

• Sonny Darby

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Harold Sansum

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 5th place

• George MacKenzie

  Featherweight, freestyle: 8th place

• George Stott

  Featherweight, freestyle: 8th place

• George Gardiner

  Lightweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Ernest Bacon

  Lightweight, freestyle: 9th place

• James Davis

  Welterweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Edgar Bacon

  Welterweight, freestyle: 11th place

• Noel Rhys

  Middleweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Bernard Rowe

  Middleweight, freestyle: 11th place

• Walter Wilson

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Victor Lay

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 11th place

• Andrew MacDonald

  Heavyweight, freestyle: bronze

• Albert Sangwine

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 10th place

rowing

• Jack Beresford

  One: gold

• Gordon Killick

  Two without a helmsman: did not start in the final

• Thomas Southgate

  Two without a helmsman: did not start in the final

• Charles Eley

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• James MacNabb

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Robert Morrison

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Terence Sanders

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Victor Bovington

  Four with helmsman: eliminated in the semifinals

• Bernard Croucher

  Four with helmsman: eliminated in the semifinals

• Thomas Monk

  Four with helmsman: eliminated in the semifinals

• John Townend

  Four with helmsman: eliminated in the semifinals

• Harry Barnsley

  Four with helmsman: eliminated in the semifinals

• Reginald Bare

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Edward Chandler

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Horace Debenham

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Peter Dulley

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Ian Fairbairn

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Arthur Long

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Harold Morphy

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Charles Rew

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Jack Godwin

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

shoot

• Charles Bounton

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 13th place

• Charles Mackie

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 22nd place

• Peter Griffiths

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 40th place

• Alexander Martin

  Free rifle 600 m: 9th place

• Thomas Northcote

  Free rifle 600 m: 24th place

• Harry Douglas

  Free rifle 600 m: 34th place

• David Lewis

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 49th place

• William Artis

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 52nd place

• Frederick Bracegirdle

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 55th place

• John Clift

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 57th place

• Cyril Mackworth-Praed

  Running stag single shot 100 m: silver

  Running stag double shot 100 m: silver

  Running stag single shot 100 m team: 4th place

  Running stag double shot 100 m team: gold

  Trap: competition not over

  Trap team: 8th place

• John Faunthorpe

  Running stag single shot 100 m: 21st place

  Running stag single shot 100 m team: 4th place

• Thomas tendrils

  Running stag single shot 100 m: 22nd place

  Running stag double shot 100 m: 22nd place

• Alexander Rogers

  Running stag single shot 100 m: 26th place

  Running stag single shot 100 m team: 4th place

• John O'Leary

  Running stag single shot 100 m team: 4th place

  Trap: 24th place

  Trap team: 8th place

• Herbert Perry

  Running stag double shot 100 m: 13th place

  Running stag double shot 100 m team: gold

• Allen Whitty

  Running stag double shot 100 m: 18th place

  Running stag double shot 100 m team: gold

• Philip Neame

  Running stag double shot 100 m team: gold

• Enoch Jenkins

  Trap: 11th place

  Trap team: 8th place

• Hans Larsen

  Trap team: 8th place

• George Neal

  Trap team: 8th place

• William Grosvenor

  Trap team: 8th place

swim

Men

• Alfred Pycock

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Charles Baillee

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Albert Dickin

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Jack Hatfield

  400 m freestyle: 5th place

  1500 m freestyle: 4th place

• Harold Annison

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Percy Peter

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• John P. Taylor

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Leslie Savage

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• John Thomson

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Austin Rawlinson

  100 m back: 5th place

• James Worthington

  100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals

• John McDowall

  100 m back: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Edward Maw

  200 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

• Reggie Flint

  200 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

• William Stoney

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Connie Jeans

  100 m freestyle: 4th place

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: silver

• Vera Tanner

  100 m freestyle: 5th place

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: silver

• Florence Barker

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: silver

• Doris Molesworth

  400 m freestyle: 4th place

• Grace McKenzie

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: silver

• Phyllis Harding

  100 m back: silver

• Helen Boyle

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ellen King

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Lucy Morton

  200 m chest: gold

• Gladys Carson

  200 m chest: bronze

• Irene Gilbert

  200 m chest: 5th place

sailing

• Harold Fowler

  Monotype 1924: 7th place

  8 meter class: silver

• Ernest Roney

  8 meter class: silver

• Edwin Jacob

  8 meter class: silver

• Thomas Riggs

  8 meter class: silver

• Walter Riggs

  8 meter class: silver

tennis

• Algernon Kingscote

  Individual: eliminated in the round of 16

  Doubles: eliminated in the 1st round

• Brian Gilbert

  Individual: eliminated in the round of 16

  Mixed: 4th place

• Max Woosnam

  Singles: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Doubles: eliminated in the 1st round

• Patrick Wheatley

  Singles: eliminated in the 3rd round

  Doubles: eliminated in the 1st round

• Leslie Godfree

  Doubles: eliminated in the 1st round

  Mixed: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Kathleen McKane Godfree

  Single: bronze

  Double: silver

  Mixed: 4th place

• Dorothy Shepherd-Barron

  Singles: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Double: bronze

• Phyllis Satterthwaite

  Individual: eliminated in the round of 16

• Phyllis Covell

  Individual: eliminated in the round of 16

  Double: silver

  Mixed: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Evelyn Colyer

  Double: bronze

do gymnastics

• Stanley Leigh

  Individual all-around: 35th place

  Horse jump: 56th place

  Bars: 23rd place

  Horizontal bar: 13th place

  Rings: 25th place

  Pommel horse: 25th place

  Tauhangeln: 55th place

  Side jump: 25th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Harold Brown

  Individual all-around: 40th place

  Horse jump: 19th place

  Bars: 50th place

  Horizontal bar: 43rd place

  Rings: 47th place

  Pommel horse: 45th place

  Tauhangeln: 24th place

  Side jump: 59th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Henry Finchett

  Individual all-around: 43rd place

  Horse jump: 22nd place

  Bars: 58th place

  Horizontal bar: 54th place

  Rings: 33rd place

  Pommel horse: 41st place

  Tauhangeln: 51st place

  Side jump: 33rd place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Frank Hawkins

  Individual all-around: 49th place

  Horse jump: 63rd place

  Bars: 49th place

  Horizontal bar: 68th place

  Rings: 56th place

  Pommel horse: 47th place

  Tauhangeln: 31st place

  Side jump: 59th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Thomas Hopkins

  Individual all-around: 54th place

  Horse jump: 16th place

  Bars: 61st place

  Horizontal bar: 64th place

  Rings: 57th place

  Pommel horse: 53rd place

  Tauhangeln: 51st place

  Side jump: 31st place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Ernest Leigh

  Individual all-around: 55th place

  Horse jump: 67th place

  Bars: 53rd place

  Horizontal bar: 57th place

  Rings: 26th place

  Pommel horse: 48th place

  Tauhangeln: 62nd place

  Side jump: 54th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Samuel Humphreys

  Individual all-around: 64th place

  Horse jump: 59th place

  Bars: 70th place

  Horizontal bar: 63rd place

  Rings: 48th place

  Pommel horse: 54th place

  Tauhangeln: 50th place

  Side jump: 54th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

• Albert Spencer

  Individual all-around: 65th place

  Horse jump: 55th place

  Bars: 71st place

  Horizontal bar: 51st place

  Rings: 64th place

  Pommel horse: 46th place

  Tauhangeln: 58th place

  Side jump: 65th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

Water polo

• 10th place

  Harold Annison

  Jack Budd

  Charles Bugbee

  Richard Hodgson

  Arthur Hunt

  Paul Radmilovic

  Charles Sydney Smith

Diving

Men

• Gregory Matveieff

  3 m jumping: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Eric MacDonald

  3 m jumping: eliminated in the preliminary round

  10 m high diving: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Reggie Knight

  10 m high diving: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Easy diving: 7th place

• Harold Clarke

  Diving easy: bronze

• Albert Dickin

  Diving easy: eliminated in the preliminary round

Women

• Amelia Hudson

  3 m jumping: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Catherine O'Bryen

  3 m jumping: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Gladys Luscombe

  3 m jumping: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Belle White

  10 m high diving: 6th place

• Verrall Newman

  10 m high diving: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Eileen Armstrong

  10 m high diving: eliminated in the preliminary round

Web links

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