1932 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

GBR

4th	7th	5

The United Kingdom participated as Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with a delegation of 108 athletes (91 men and 17 women) in 50 competitions in ten competitions.

The British athletes won four gold, seven silver and five bronze medals, placing Great Britain in eighth place in the medal table. Olympic champions were the athletes Tommy Hampson over 800 meters and Tommy Green in the 50 km walk as well as the rowers Lewis Clive and Hugh Edwards in a two without a helmsman and John Badcock , Hugh Edwards, Jack Beresford and Rowland George in a foursome without a helmsman. In the art competitions that did not count towards the medal table, John Hughes secured another gold medal in the competition for urban design. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete David Cecil .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Tommy Pardoe

  Flyweight: 4th place

• Harry Mizler

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Dave McCleave

  Welterweight: 4th place

fencing

Men

• Emrys Lloyd

  Foil: 6th place

Women

• Judy Guinness

  Foil: silver

• Peggy Butler

  Foil: 10th place

Art competitions

• Donald Wood
• Harry Watson
• Anton van Anrooy
• Charles Simpson
• George Sheringham
• Edgar Seligman
• Heath Robinson
• Tom Purvis
• Gerald Spencer Pryse
• Charles Pears
• Jess Peacey Lawson
• Charles Payne
• Cuthbert Orde
• Alfred Munnings
• Ernest Moore
• Frank Mason
• John Lavery
• Laura Knight
• Gilbert Holiday
• Francis Hodge
• PA Hay
• Archibald Hartrick
• Ronald Gray
• David Ghilchik
• David Evans
• G. Elcock
• Lionel Edwards
• Thomas Dugdale
• Philip Alexius de László
• Charles Cundall
• Cecil Ross Burnett
• Arthur Burgess
• Lewis Baumer
• Denholm Armor
• Anna Airy
• John Hughes

  Urban development plans: gold

athletics

Men

• Ernest Page

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 6th place

• Stanley Fuller

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 6th place

• Fred Reid

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Stanley Engelhart

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 100 meter relay: 6th place

• Godfrey Rampling

  400 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Crew Stoneley

  400 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Tommy Hampson

  800 m: gold

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• John Powell

  800 m: 7th place

• Jerry Cornes

  1500 m: silver

• Reg Thomas

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Alec Burns

  5000 m: 7th place

• George Bailey

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  3000 m obstacle: 5th place

• Sam Ferris

  Marathon: silver

• Dunky Wright

  Marathon: 4th place

• Don Finlay

  110 m hurdles: bronze

  4 x 100 meter relay: 6th place

• David Cecil

  110 m hurdles: 5th place

  400 m hurdles: 4th place

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Roland Harper

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Tom Evenson

  3000 m obstacle: silver

• Tommy Green

  50 km of walking: gold

Women

• Eileen Hiscock

  100 m: 5th place

  4 x 100 meter relay: bronze

• Gwendoline Porter

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter relay: bronze

• Ethel Johnson

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Violet Webb

  80 m hurdles: 5th place

  4 x 100 meter relay: bronze

• Nellie Halstead

  4 x 100 meter relay: bronze

Modern pentathlon

• Percy Legard

  Singles: 8th place

• Vernon Barlow

  Individual: 14th place

• Jeffrey MacDougall

  Individual: 15th place

Cycling

• Frank Southall

  Road race: 6th place

  Road team classification: 4th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: bronze

• Charles Holland

  Road race: 15th place

  Road team classification: 4th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: bronze

• Stanley Butler

  Road race: 16th place

  Road team classification: 4th place

• William Harvell

  Road race: 19th place

  Track 1000 m time trial: 4th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: bronze

• Ernest Chambers

  Track Sprint: 5th place

  Rail tandem: silver

• Stanley Chambers

  Rail tandem: silver

• Ernest Johnson

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: bronze

Wrestling

• Joe Reid

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Joseph Taylor

  Featherweight, freestyle: 4th place

rowing

• Leslie Southwood

  One: 4th place

• Lewis Clive

  Two without a helmsman: gold

• Hugh Edwards

  Two without a helmsman: gold

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• John Badcock

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Jack Beresford

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Rowland George

  Four without a helmsman: gold

• Lewis Luxton

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Donald McCowen

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Harold Rickett

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Charles Sergel

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Bill Sambell

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Tom Askwith

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• Kenneth Payne

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• David Haig-Thomas

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

• John Ranking

  Eighth with helmsman: 4th place

swim

Men

• Reg Sutton

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Joseph Whiteside

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Mickey Ffrench-Williams

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Norman Wainwright

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Bob Leivers

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: 5th place

• Willie Francis

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Margaret Cooper

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  400 m freestyle: 4th place

  100 m back: 6th place

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: bronze

• Valerie Davies

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m back: bronze

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: bronze

• Edna Hughes

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: bronze

• Helen Varcoe

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: bronze

• Phyllis Harding

  100 m back: 4th place

• Margery Hinton

  200 m chest: 4th place

• Cecelia Wolstenholme

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Colin Ratsey

  Snowbird: 6th place

  Star: silver

• Peter Jaffe

  Star: silver

Web links

• British Olympic team from 1932 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )