1924 Winter Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

GBR

The United Kingdom took part in the Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix in part with a delegation of 34 athletes in five sports. The British NOK had registered 47 athletes for the games, 34 of whom were participating in competitions. An athlete took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Ethel Muckelt (1920 figure skating)

Results: Great Britain sent the second largest team to Chamonix alongside France and was considered the strongest non-Scandinavian nation. Skip Thomas Murray's curlers won the only gold medal. However, the curlers won the Olympic gold medal 82 years later, during the Turin Winter Games in 2006 . Until then, curling was officially only considered a demonstration competition . The British also proved to be a strong nation in bobsleigh . The crew of the Bobs Great Britain II with pilot Ralph Broome finished in silver. The second British bob still finished fifth. In figure skating it was Ethel Muckelt who won the third medal for her country with bronze. Together with John Page , she also finished fourth in pair skating. The ice hockey team around captain Colin Carruthers also won bronze in the Chamonix tournament and is the best European team.

Participants by sport

Skiing

• J. Appleyard

  18 km cross-country skiing (dns), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns)

• George Clarkson

  50 km cross-country skiing (dns), ski jumping (dns - also ice hockey)

• A. Currie

  18 km cross-country skiing (dns), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns)

• Alexander Keiller

  18 km cross-country skiing (dns), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns), Nordic combined (dns), ski jumping (dns)

• Chris Mackintosh

  18 km cross-country skiing (dns), 50 km cross-country skiing (dns), Nordic combined (dns), ski jumping (dns)

Figure Skating (6)

• Herbert Clarke

  Men (10th place)

• Ethel Muckelt

  Women (bronze), pair skating (4th place)

• John Page

  Men (5th place), pair skating (4th place)

• Mildred Richardson

  Pair skating (8th place)

• Thomas Richardson

  Pair skating (8th place)

• Kathleen Shaw

  Women (7th place)

Speed ​​Skating (4)

• Frederick Dix

  500 m (23rd place), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (dns), 10,000 m (dns), all-around (dnf)

• Cyril Horn

  500 m (27th place), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (dns), 10,000 m (dns), all-around (dnf)

• Tom Sutton

  500 m (25th place), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (dns), 10,000 m (dns), all-around (dnf)

• Albert Tebbit

  500 m (dns), 1500 m (dns), 5000 m (20th place), 10,000 m (dns), all-around (dns)

Ice Hockey (10)

Ice Hockey Team (Bronze)

• William Anderson
• Lorne Carr-Harris
• Colin Carruthers captain
• Eric Carruthers
• Guy Clarkson also sports skiing
• Ross Cuthbert
• Geoffrey Holmes
• Hamilton Jukes
• Edward Pitblado
• Blane Sexton

Reserve: C. Boulden, B. Patton

Curling (6)

Curling team (gold)

• TS Aikman
• DG Astley
• W. Brown
• J. McLeod
• Thomas Murray Skip
• Robin Welsh

Reserve: R. Cousin, William Jackson

Bobsleigh (8)

Four-man bobsleigh I (5th place)

• Archibald Crabbe
• Francis Fairlie
• William Horton pilot
• George Cecil Pim

4-man bobsleigh II (silver)

• Thomas Arnold
• Ralph Broome pilot
• Alexander Richardson
• Rodney Soher

Reserves: HF Brooke, F. Browning, PT Chevalier, R. Pellew, T A. Scrutton

Alpinism

The IOC awarded a special prize to Geoffrey Granville Bruce . This was during the closing ceremony of a gold medal in mountaineering for his Himalayan Expedition 1921 / 22 . The medal and the diploma received on February 5, 1924 in Bruce's absence, his deputy Colonel Edward Struth .

Medals

	gold	silver	bronze	total
Great Britain	1	1	2	4th

Medalist

Gold medals

• Curling: TS Aikman , DG Astley , W. Brown , J. McLeod , Thomas Murray, and Robin Welsh

The gold medal in alpinism is not included in the evaluation, as it was an honorary award and it was not an official competition.

Silver medals

• Bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh II: Thomas Arnold , Ralph Broome (pilot), Alexander Richardson and Rodney Soher

Bronze medals

• Figure skating, women: Ethel Muckelt
• Ice hockey: William Anderson , Lorne Carr-Harris , Colin Carruthers (captain) , Eric Carruthers , Guy Clarkson (also skiing), Ross Cuthbert , Geoffrey Holmes , Hamilton Jukes , Edward Pitblado and Blane Sexton

Web links

• British Olympic Team 1924 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1924 (PDF; 87.6 MB)