Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics
Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | GBR |
NOC | British Olympic Association |
in Chamonix | |
Competitors | 44 (41 men, 3 women) in 6 sports |
Medals Ranked 6th |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. Based on medal count, this was Great Britain's best ever performance at a Winter Olympic Games until the 2014 games were held in Sochi in Russia. On February 3rd, Great Britain won two medals on one day. This was not to be bettered until the 2018 games when 3 medals were won on one day.
Medallists[]
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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William Jackson Thomas Murray Robin Welsh Laurence Jackson |
Curling | Men's event |
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Ralph Broome Thomas Arnold Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher |
Bobsleigh | Four/five-man |
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Ethel Muckelt | Figure skating | Women's singles |
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Great Britain men's national ice hockey team |
Ice hockey | Men's competition |
Bobsleigh[]
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
GBR-1 | Ralph Broome Thomas Arnold Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher |
Four/five-man | 1:28.73 | 2 | 1:28.67 | 2 | 1:25.76 | 2 | 1:25.67 | 1 | 5:48.83 | ![]() |
GBR-2 | William Horton Archibald Crabbe Gerard Fairlie George Pim |
Four/five-man | 1:42.33 | 5 | 1:41.28 | 5 | 1:38.58 | 5 | 1:38.52 | 5 | 6:40.71 | 5 |
Curling[]
Team | GP | W | L | PF | PA | PTS |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 84 | 11 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 48 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 64 | 0 |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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38-7 | ![]() |
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46-4 | ![]() |
Pos. | Player |
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Skip | Willie Jackson |
Robin Welsh | |
Thomas Murray | |
Laurence Jackson |
Figure skating[]
- Men
Athlete | Event | CF | FS | Points | Places | Final rank |
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Herbert Clarke | Men's singles | 10 | 11 | 219.75 | 70 | 10 |
Jack Page | 6 | 5 | 295.36 | 36 | 5 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | CF | FS | Points | Places | Final rank |
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Kathleen Shaw | Women's singles | 8 | 6 | 221.00 | 46 | 7 |
Ethel Muckelt | 3 | 7 | 250.07 | 26 | ![]() |
- Pairs
Athletes | Points | Score | Final rank |
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Mildred Richardson Tyke Richardson |
57 | 7.68 | 8 |
Ethel Muckelt Jack Page |
30.5 | 9.93 | 4 |
Ice hockey[]
Group B[]
The top two teams (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.
Team | GP | W | L | GF | GA |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 52 | 0 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 16 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 42 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 45 |
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2:15 (1:5,1:3,0:7) |
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19:3 (8:1,6:1,5:1) |
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11:0 (6:0,2:0,3:0) |
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Medal round[]
Results from the group round (Canada-Sweden and United States-Great Britain) carried forward to the medal round.
Team | GP | W | L | GF | GA |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 3 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 33 |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 46 |
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19:2 (6:2,6:0,7:0) |
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4:3 (0:1,2:2,2:0) |
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Bronze: |
![]() William Anderson Lorne Carr-Harris Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Guy Clarkson Ross Cuthbert Geoffrey Holmes Hamilton Jukes Edward Pitblado Blane Sexton |
Speed skating[]
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Cyril Horn | 1:04.4 | 27 |
Tom Sutton | 1:00.8 | 25 | |
Fred Dix | 56.4 | 23 | |
5000 m | Albert Tebbit | 11:01.0 | 20 |
All-round
Distances: 500m; 1000m; 5000m & 10,000m.
Athlete | Until distance 1 | Until distance 2 | Until distance 3 | Total | ||||||||
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Points | Score | rank | Points | Score | rank | Points | Score | rank | Points | Score | rank | |
Cyril Horn | 21 | 64.40 | 21 | DNF | ||||||||
Tom Sutton | 19 | 60.80 | 19 | DNF | ||||||||
Fred Dix | 17.5 | 56.40 | 17 | DNF |
References[]
- (ed.) M. Avé, Comité Olympique Français. Les Jeux de la VIIIe Olympiade Paris 1924 - Rapport Officiel (PDF) (in French). Paris: Librairie de France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-01-31.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
- Olympic Winter Games 1924, full results by sports-reference.com
Categories:
- Nations at the 1924 Winter Olympics
- Great Britain at the Winter Olympics by year
- 1924 in British sport
- Winter sports in the United Kingdom