1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

GBR

3	10	7th

The United Kingdom participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , Netherlands , with a delegation of 193 athletes (164 men and 29 women).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Douglas Lowe	athletics	800 meters
Lord Burghley	athletics	400 meter hurdles
John Lander , Michael Warriner , Richard Beesly , Edward Bevan	rowing	Foursome without a helmsman

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
Muriel Freeman	fencing	Women, foil, singles
Jack London	athletics	100 meters
Walter Rangeley	athletics	200 metres
Ernest Chambers & John Sibbit	Cycling	tandem
Frank Southall	Cycling	Individual ranking road race
Jack Lauterwasser , John Middleton & Frank Southall	Cycling	Team ranking road race
Terence O'Brien & Robert Nisbet	rowing	Two without a helmsman
Jamie Hamilton , Guy Oliver Nickalls , John Badcock , Donald Gollan , Harold Lane , Gordon Killick , Jack Beresford , Harold West & Arthur Sulley	rowing	Eighth
Ellen King	swim	Women, 100 meters back
Margaret Cooper , Vera Tanner , Sarah Stewart & Ellen King	swim	4 × 100 meter freestyle

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Cyril Gill , Edward Smouha , Walter Rangeley & Jack London	athletics	4 x 100 meter relay
George Southall , Harry Wyld , Leonard Wyld & Percy Wyld	Cycling	4000 meters team pursuit
Samuel Rabin	Wrestling	Middleweight, freestyle
Theodore Collet	rowing	One
Margaret Cooper	swim	Women, 100 meters freestyle & women, 100 meters back
Annie Broadbent , Lucy Desmond , Margaret Hartley , Amy Jagger , Isobel Judd , Jessie Kite , Marjorie Moreman , Edith Pickles , Ethel Seymour , Ada Smith , Hilda Smith & Doris Woods	do gymnastics	Women, team all-around

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Cuthbert Taylor

  Flyweight: 5th place

• Jack Garland

  Bantamweight: 5th place

• Fred Perry

  Featherweight: 5th place

• Fred Webster

  Lightweight: 9th place

• Harry Dunn

  Welterweight: 9th place

• Fred Mallin

  Middleweight: 4th place

• Alf Jackson

  Light heavyweight: 5th place

• Joe Goyder

  Heavyweight: 9th place

fencing

• Thomas Wand-Tetley

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Denis Pearce

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Robert Montgomerie

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Frederick Sherriff

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Cyril Simey

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Jack James

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Charles Biscoe

  Epee, singles: quarter-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Bertie Childs

  Epee, singles: quarter-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Martin Holt

  Epee, singles: quarter-finals

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• David Drury

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Edward Brookfield

  Saber, singles: semi-finals

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Guy Harry

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Barry Notley

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Archibald Corble

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Henry Forrest

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Robin Jeffreys

  Saber, team: preliminary round

• Muriel Freeman

  Women, foil, singles: silver

• Gladys Daniell

  Women, foil, singles: 5th place

• Peggy Butler

  Women, foil, singles: semi-finals

Weightlifting

• Alfred Baxter

  Featherweight: 19th place

• Alfred Hopkins

  Featherweight: 21st place

• Frederick Attenborough

  Middleweight: 13th place

• John Tooley

  Middleweight: 18th place

• Harold Wood

  Heavyweight: 13th place

athletics

• Jack London

  100 meters: silver

  4 × 100 meters: bronze

• Cyril Gill

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  200 meters: semi-finals

  4 × 100 meters: bronze

• Walter Rangeley

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  200 meters: silver

  4 × 100 meters: bronze

• John Heap

  100 meters: heats

• Guy Butler

  200 meters: quarter-finals

• John Hambidge

  200 meters: quarter-finals

• John Rinkel

  400 meters: 5th place

  4 × 400 meters: 5th place

• Billy Green

  400 meters: quarter-finals

• Roger Leigh-Wood

  400 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 400 meters: 5th place

• John Hanlon

  400 meters: heats

• Douglas Lowe

  800 meters: gold

  4 × 400 meters: 5th place

• Ralph Starr

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Wilfrid Tatham

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Harry Houghton

  800 meters: heats

• Cyril Ellis

  1500 meters: 5th place

• Stanley Ashby

  1500 meters: heats

• Reg Thomas

  1500 meters: heats

• Reggie Bell

  1500 meters: heats

• Herbert Johnston

  5000 meters: 8th place

• Brian Oddie

  5000 meters: 9th place

• Wally Beavers

  5000 meters: heats

  10,000 meters: 9th place

• Frederick Light

  5000 meters: heats

• Arthur Muggridge

  10,000 meters: 5th place

• Suttie Smith

  10,000 meters: 10th place

• George Constable

  10,000 meters: 12th place

• Sam Ferris

  Marathon: 8th place

• Harry Wood

  Marathon: 11th place

• Harry Payne

  Marathon: 13th place

• Dunky Wright

  Marathon: 20th place

• Herbert Bignall

  Marathon: 21st place

• Ernie Harper

  Marathon: 22nd place

• Fred Gaby

  110 meter hurdles: 6th place

• Lord Burghley

  110 meter hurdles: semi-finals

  400 meter hurdles: gold

• Bernard Lucas

  110 meter hurdles: semi-finals

• Douglas Neame

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

• Tom Livingstone-Learmonth

  400 meter hurdles: 5th place

• Frederick Chauncy

  400 meter hurdles: semi-finals

• Lance Percival

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Norman Biddulph

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Henry Oliver

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Vernon Morgan

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Joe Blewitt

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Edward Smouha

  4 × 100 meters: bronze

• William Craner

  4 × 400 meters: 5th place

• Henry Simmons

  High jump: 11th place

• Colin Gordon

  High jump: 17th place

• Carl van Geyzel

  High jump: 19th place in qualification

• Geoffrey Turner

  High jump: 19th place in qualification

• Laurence Bond

  Pole vault: 10th place in qualification

• Reginald Revans

  Long jump: 32nd place in qualification

• James Cohen

  Long jump: 32nd place in qualification

• Reginald Woods

  Shot put: 17th place in qualification

• Robert Howland

  Shot put: 17th place in qualification

• Malcolm Nokes

  Hammer throw: 11th place in qualification

• Howard Ford

  Decathlon: DNF

Modern pentathlon

• David Turquand-Young

  Individual: 6th place

• Alfred Goodwin

  Individual: 22nd place

• Lance East

  Singles: 24th place

Cycling

• Frank Southall

  Road race, individual: silver

  Road race, team: silver

• Jack Lauterwasser

  Road race, individual: 5th place

  Road race, team: silver

• John Middleton

  Road race, individual: 26th place

  Road race, team: silver

• Charles Marshall

  Road race, individual: 38th place

  Road race, team: silver

• Sydney Cozens

  Sprint: 3rd round

• Edward Kerridge

  1000 meter time trial: 6th place

• John Sibbit

  Tandem: silver

• Ernest Chambers

  Tandem: silver

• George Southall

  4000 meters team time trial: bronze

• Harry Wyld

  4000 meters team time trial: bronze

• Leonard Wyld

  4000 meters team time trial: bronze

• Percy Wyld

  4000 meters team time trial: bronze

Wrestling

• Harold Sansum

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Harold Angus

  Featherweight, freestyle: 7th place

• George MacKenzie

  Lightweight, freestyle: 10th place

• Richard Cook

  Welterweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Samuel Rabin

  Middleweight, freestyle: bronze

• Bernard Rowe

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

rowing

• Theodore Collet

  One: bronze

• Humphrey Boardman

  Double sculls: 4th round

• Denis Guye

  Double sculls: 4th round

• Terence O'Brien

  Two without a helmsman: silver

• Robert Nisbet

  Two without a helmsman: silver

• John Lander

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Michael Warriner

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Richard Beesly

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Edward Bevan

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Harold Ives

  Four-man with helmsman: 1st round

• LG Potter

  Four-man with helmsman: 1st round

• George Beaumont

  Four-man with helmsman: 1st round

• Bob Starkey

  Four-man with helmsman: 1st round

• Arthur Sulley

  Four-man with helmsman: 1st round

• Jamie Hamilton

  Eighth: silver

• Guy Oliver Nickalls

  Eighth: silver

• John Badcock

  Eighth: silver

• Donald Gollan

  Eighth: silver

• Harold Lane

  Eighth: silver

• Gordon Killick

  Eighth: silver

• Jack Beresford

  Eighth: silver

• Harold West

  Eighth: silver

• Arthur Sulley

  Eighth: silver

swim

• Norman Brooks

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

• Reginald Sutton

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: 6th place

• John Hatfield

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

• Arthur Watts

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

• Joseph Whiteside

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: 6th place

• Edward Peter

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: 6th place

• Albert Dickin

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: 6th place

• John Besford

  100 meters back: 6th place

• Willie Francis

  100 meters back: semi-finals

• Reginald Flint

  200 meters chest: heats

• Hugh Smith

  200 meters chest: heats

• Margaret Cooper

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: bronze

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

  Women, 100 meters back: bronze

• Jean McDowell

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: 4th place

• Vera Tanner

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: 6th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Sarah Stewart

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: 4th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Edith Mayne

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: semi-finals

• Ellen King

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

  Women, 100 meters back: silver

• Phyllis Harding

  Women, 100 meters back: heats

• Margery Hinton

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

• Dora Gibbs

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

• Mabel Hamblen

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

sailing

• Harold Fowler

  12-foot dinghy: 8th place

• Harold Gaydon

  12-foot dinghy: 8th place

• Margaret Roney

  8-meter class: 7th place

• Ernest Roney

  8-meter class: 7th place

• Esmond Roney

  8-meter class: 7th place

• Philip trap

  8-meter class: 7th place

• Thomas Riggs

  8-meter class: 7th place

• Thomas Skinner

  8-meter class: 7th place

do gymnastics

• Arthur Whitford

  Individual all-around: 63rd place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 63rd place

  Horse jump: 61st place

  Horizontal bar: 64th place

  Rings: 67th place

  Pommel horse: 68th place

• EW Warren

  Individual all-around: 75th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 83rd place

  Horse jump: 43rd place

  Horizontal bar: 70th place

  Rings: 77th place

  Pommel horse: 65th place

• Bart Cronin

  Individual all-around: 76th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 79th place

  Horse jump: 85th place

  Horizontal bar: 78th place

  Rings: 74th place

  Pommel horse: 57th place

• EA Walton

  Individual all-around: 79th place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 81st place

  Horse jump: 69th place

  Horizontal bar: 57th place

  Rings: 82nd place

  Pommel horse: 80th place

• TB Parkinson's

  Individual all-around: 81st place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 77th place

  Horse jump: 82nd place

  Horizontal bar: 65th place

  Rings: 83rd place

  Pommel horse: 76th place

• GC Raynes

  Individual all-around: 82nd place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 82nd place

  Horse jump: 58th place

  Horizontal bar: 65th place

  Rings: 87th place

  Pommel horse: 75th place

• Henry Finchett

  Individual all-around: 83rd place

  Team all-around competition: 11th place

  Bars: 80th place

  Horse jump: 84th place

  Horizontal bar: 77th place

  Rings: 84th place

  Pommel horse: 60th place

• Samuel Humphreys

  Individual all-around: DNF

  Horizontal bar: 54th place

  Rings: 85th place

  Pommel horse: 73rd place

• Annie Broadbent

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Lucy Desmond

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Margaret Hartley

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Amy Jagger

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Isobel Judd

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Jessie Kite

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Marjorie Moreman

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Edith Pickles

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Ethel Seymour

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Ada Smith

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Hilda Smith

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Doris Woods

  Women, team all-around: silver

Water polo

• Men's team

  4th Place

• Squad

  Edward Temme

  Paul Radmilovic

  Edward Peter

  Nicholas Beaman

  Jack Budd

  Leslie Ablett

  Richard Hodgson

  John Hatfield

  William Quick

Diving

• SC Mercer

  Art jumping: prelims

• Albert Knight

  Diving: 8th place

• William Burne

  High diving: prelims

• Tommy Mather

  High diving: prelims

• Isabelle White

  Women, high diving: prelims

• D. Grimes

  Women, high diving: prelims

• K. Le Rossignol

  Women, high diving: prelims

Web links

• United Kingdom Olympic Team from 1928 in Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )