Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Great Britain at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
Flag of the United Kingdom
IOC codeGBR
NOCBritish Olympic Association
in Los Angeles
Competitors337 (229 men and 108 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearers Lucinda Green (opening)
Sebastian Coe (closing)
Medals
Ranked 11th
Gold
5
Silver
11
Bronze
21
Total
37
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. 337 competitors, 229 men and 108 women, took part in 190 events in 20 sports.[1]

The British team won a total of 37 medals, including five golds, this was Britain's largest total medal haul since 1920, and would not be surpassed until 2008, however this was due in large part to the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Olympics, which meant that Eastern Bloc competitors were not present. Great Britain sent a reserve team to the Soviet organised Friendship Games, dubbed the "alternative Olympics" the same year.

Medallists[]

Medals by discipline
Discipline Gold medal icon.svg Silver medal icon.svg Bronze medal icon.svg Total
Athletics 3 7 6 16
Shooting 1 0 3 4
Rowing 1 0 0 1
Equestrian 0 2 1 3
Swimming 0 1 4 5
Judo 0 1 2 3
Boxing 0 0 1 1
Field hockey 0 0 1 1
Sailing 0 0 1 1
Weightlifting 0 0 1 1
Wrestling 0 0 1 1
Total 5 11 21 37

Gold[]

  • Sebastian Coe — Athletics, Men's 1500 metres
  • Daley Thompson — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
  • Tessa Sanderson — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Richard Budgett, Martin Cross, Adrian Ellison, Andy Holmes, and Steve Redgrave — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
  • Malcolm Cooper — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions

Silver[]

  • Sebastian Coe — Athletics, Men's 800 metres
  • Steve Cram — Athletics, Men's 1500 metres
  • Mike McLeod — Athletics, Men's 10.000 metres
  • Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown, and Garry Cook — Athletics, Men's 4×400 metres Relay
  • David Ottley — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
  • Wendy Smith-Sly — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres
  • Shirley Strong — Athletics, Women's 100 m Hurdles
  • Diana Clapham, Lucinda Green, Virginia Holgate-Leng, and Ian Stark — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Competition
  • Timothy Grubb, Steven Smith, John Whitaker, and Michael Whitaker — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition
  • Neil Adams — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
  • Sarah Hardcastle — Swimming, Women's 400 m Freestyle

Bronze[]

Archery[]

In the fourth appearance by Great Britain in modern Olympic archery, three men and three women represented the country. The women's scores were separated by only 10 points, as the three placed consecutively in the final ranking.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Eileen Robinson - 2408 points (→ 29th place)
  • Angela Goodall - 2401 points (→ 30th place)
  • - 2398 points (→ 31st place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Steven Hallard - 2473 points (→ 21st place)
  • Peter Gillam - 2435 points (→ 30th place)
  • Richard Priestman - 2339 points (→ 48th place)

Athletics[]

Men's Competition

Men's 100 metres

  • Final — 10.27 (→ 5th place)
  • Final — 10.32 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200 metres

  • Heat — 21.02
  • Quarterfinals — 20.55
  • Semifinals — 20.54
  • Final — 20.98 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400 metres

  • Kriss Akabusi
  • Heat — 45.64
  • Quarterfinals — 45.43
  • Semifinals — 45.69 (→ did not advance)
  • Philip Brown
  • Heat — 46.26
  • Quarterfinals — 46.63 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 46.09
  • Quarterfinals — 45.51 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5,000 metres

  • Heat — 13:46.01
  • Semifinals — 13:28.60
  • Final — 13:11.50 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat — 13:46.16
  • Semifinals — 13:41.70
  • Final — 13:53.34 (→ 13th place)
  • David Moorcroft
  • Heat — 13:51.40
  • Semifinals — 13:28.44
  • Final — 14:16.61 (→ 14th place)

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Qualifying Heat — 28:24.92
  • Final — 28:06.22 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Steve Jones
  • Qualifying Heat — 28:15.22
  • Final — 28:28.08 (→ 8th place)
  • Nick Rose
  • Qualifying Heat — 28:31.13
  • Final — 28:31.73 (→ 12th place)

Men's Marathon

  • Charlie Spedding
  • Final — 2:09:58 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Hugh Jones
  • Final — 2:13:57 (→ 12th place)
  • Geoff Smith
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualification — 2.21 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — no mark (→ did not advance)

Men's triple jump

  • Final — 16.87 m (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Final — 16.66 m (→ 8th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 85.68 m
  • Final — 85.74 m (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Roald Bradstock
  • Qualification — 83.06 m
  • Final — 81.22 m (→ 7th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification — 73.04 m
  • Final — 72.62 m (→ 8th place)
  • Martin Girvan
  • Qualification — 72.66 m
  • Final — 72.32 m (→ 9th place)
  • Qualification — 71.80 m
  • Final — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Pole Vault

  • Qualifying Round — 5.30 m
  • Final — 5.10 m (→ 11th place)
  • Qualifying Round — 5.20 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

  • Daley Thompson
  • Final Result — 8797 points (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Brad McStravick
  • Final Result — 7890 points (→ 11th place)
  • Final Result — 7485 points (→ 20th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Final — 1:27:28 (→ 13th place)
  • Final — 1:28:53 (→ 19th place)
  • Final — 1:30:46 (→ 24th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

  • Final — 4:26:33 (→ 16th place)
Women's Competition

Women's 1,500 metres

  • Christine Benning
  • Heat — 4:10.48
  • Final — 4:04.70 (→ 5th place)
  • Christina Boxer
  • Heat — 4:07.40
  • Final — 4:05.53 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 4:09.08
  • Final — 4:10.58 (→ 11th place)

Women's 3,000 metres

  • Wendy Sly
  • Heat — 8:58.66
  • Final — 8:39.47 (→ Silver medal.svg Silver Medal)
  • Zola Budd
  • Heat — 8:44.62
  • Final — 8:48.80 (→ 7th place)
  • Jane Furniss
  • Heat — 8:44.62 (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon

  • Priscilla Welch
  • Final — 2:28:54 (→ 6th place)
  • Final — 2:32:48 (→ 11th place)
  • Final — 2:34:08 (→ 14th place)

Women's 400 m Hurdles

  • Susan Morley
  • Heat — 58.71
  • Semifinal — 56.67 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 57.64
  • Semifinal — 56.72 (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

  • Qualification — 1.90 m
  • Final — 1.88 m (→ 9th place)
  • Qualification — 1.84 m (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Women's Long Jump

  • Sue Hearnshaw
  • Qualification — 6.64 m
  • Final — 6.80 m (→ Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Meg Ritchie
  • Qualification — 56.00 m
  • Final — 62.58 m (→ 5th place)
  • Qualification — 55.24 m
  • Final — 58.18 m (→ 7th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Final — 18.14 m (→ 4th place)
  • Final — 17.90 m (→ 6th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Tessa Sanderson
  • Qualification — 61.58 m
  • Final — 69.56 m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)
  • Fatima Whitbread
  • Qualification — 65.30 m
  • Final — 67.14 m (→ Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal)
  • Qualification — 60.88 m
  • Final — 59.66 m (→ 9th place)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Final Result — 6280 points (→ 5th place)
  • Kim Hagger
  • Final Result — 6127 points (→ 8th place)

Boxing[]

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

  • John Hyland
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Lost to Moon Sung-Kil (South Korea), retired in third round

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

  • Douglas Young
    1. First Round – Bye
    2. Second Round – Lost to Georgios Stefanopoulos (GRE), KO-2

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

Canoeing[]

Cycling[]

Sixteen cyclists represented Great Britain in 1984.

Men's individual road race
  • Mark Bell — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Neil Martin — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Peter Sanders — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Darryl Webster — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial
Sprint
1000m time trial
Individual pursuit
Team pursuit
Points race
Women's individual road race

Diving[]

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Christopher Snode
  • Preliminary Round — 592.68
  • Final — 609.51 (→ 5th place)
  • Nigel Stanton
  • Preliminary Round — 521.61 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Equestrian[]

Fencing[]

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Great Britain in 1984.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Gymnastics[]

Hockey[]

Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Great Britain – Kenya 2-1
  • Great Britain – Canada 3-1
  • Great Britain – New Zealand 1-0
  • Great Britain – Netherlands 4-3
  • Great Britain – Pakistan 0-0
  • Semi Finals
  • Great Britain – West Germany 0-1
  • Bronze Medal Game
  • Great Britain – Australia 3-2 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach:

Judo[]

Modern pentathlon[]

Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1984.

Individual
Team
  • Richard Phelps
  • Michael Mumford
  • Stephen Sowerby

Rhythmic gymnastics[]

Rowing[]

Men's coxless pair

  • John Beattie, Richard Stanhope
  • (→ 12th place)

Men's coxed pair

  • (→ 8th place)

Men's coxless four

  • (→ 9th place)

Men's coxed four

  • Richard Budgett, Martin Cross, Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, Adrian Ellison
  • (→ Gold)

Men's eight

  • Clive Roberts, Adam Clift, Salih Hassan, Chris Mahoney, Duncan McDougall, Malcolm McGowan, John Pritchard, Allan Whitwell, Colin Moynihan
  • (→ 5th place)

Women's single scull

  • Beryl Mitchell
  • (→ 6th place)

Women's double scull

  • (→ 8th place)

Women's coxless pair

  • (→ 6th place)

Women's coxed four

  • Tessa Millar, Jean Genchi, Joanna Toch, Katie Ball, Kathy Talbot
  • (→ 7th place)

Women's eight

  • Astrid Ayling, Ann Callaway, Alexa Forbes, Gillian Hodges, Kate Holroyd, Belinda Holmes, Sarah Hunter-Jones, Kate McNicol, Sue Bailey
  • (→ 5th place)

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

Swimming[]

Men's Competition

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 51.68
  • B-Final — 51.48 (→ 11th place)
  • Paul Easter
  • Heat — 51.83 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Paul Easter
  • Heat — 1:51.80
  • B-Final — 1:51.70 (→ 9th place)
  • Heat — 1:52.01
  • B-Final — 1:53.02 (→ 15th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 3:58.41
  • B-Final — 3:58.14 (→ 14th place)
  • Paul Howe
  • Heat — 4:04.07 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • David Stacey
  • Heat — 15:30.10 (→ did not advance, 12th place)
  • Heat — 15:57.79 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Neil Harper
  • Heat — 58.50 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
  • Ian Collins
  • Heat — 1:00.08 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Heat — 2:05.58
  • B-Final — 2:05.72 (→ 14th place)
  • Neil Harper
  • Heat — 2:09.48 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Adrian Moorhouse
  • Heat — 1:04.06
  • Final — 1:03.25 (→ 4th place)
  • Iain Cambell
  • Heat — 1:04.81
  • B-Final — 1:05.02 (→ 14th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Adrian Moorhouse
  • Heat — 2:19.83
  • B-Final — 2:18.83 (→ 9th place)
  • Iain Cambell
  • Heat — 2:20.78
  • B-Final — 2:20.62 (→ 11th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Heat — 54.49
  • Final — 54.28 (→ 5th place)
  • Ian Collins
  • Heat — 56.41 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

  • Nick Hodgson
  • Heat — 2:01.64
  • B-Final — 2:01.24 (→ 11th place)
  • Heat — 2:02.76
  • B-Final — 2:03.06 (→ 16th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 2:05.39
  • Final — 2:04.38 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 2:04.13
  • Final — 2:04.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 4:25.38
  • Final — 4:25.80 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat — 4:32.90
  • B-Final — 4:31.10 (→ 15th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • David Lowe, Roland Lee, Paul Easter, and Richard Burrell
  • Heat — 3:24.59
  • Final — 3:23.61 (→ 5th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 7:26.83
  • Final — 7:24.78 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat — 3:49.86
  • Neil Harper, Adrian Moorhouse, Andy Jameson, and Richard Burrell
  • Final — 3:47.39 (→ 6th place)
Women's Competition

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 57.12
  • Final — 57.11 (→ 7th place)
  • Nicola Fibbens
  • Heat — 57.80
  • B-Final — 57.36 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat — 2:01.05
  • Final — 2:00.64 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 2:04.44
  • B-Final — 2:04.90 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

  • Sarah Hardcastle
  • Heat — 4:11.55
  • Final — 4:10.27 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Heat — 4:15.51
  • Final — 4:11.49 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Sarah Hardcastle
  • Heat — 8:35.87
  • Final — 8:32.60 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 8:58.09 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Heat — 1:03.61
  • Final — 1:04.16 (→ 7th place)
  • Catherine White
  • Heat — 1:05.03
  • B-Final — 1:04.99 (→ 13th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Catherine White
  • Heat — 2:18.02
  • B-Final — 2:17.63 (→ 10th place)
  • Katherine Read
  • Heat — 2:18.92
  • B-Final — 2:18.33 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Samantha Purvis
  • Heat — 2:11.97
  • Final — 2.12.33 (→ 5th place)
  • Heat — 2:16.31
  • B-Final — 2:19.10 (→ 16th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Gaynor Stanley
  • Heat — 2:24.94
  • B-Final — 2:21.71 (→ 13th place)
  • Zara Long
  • Heat — 2:23.89
  • B-Final — 2:22.25 (→ 14th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Gaynor Stanley
  • Heat — 4:53.70
  • Final — 4:52.83 (→ 7th place)
  • Sarah Hardcastle
  • Heat — 4:55.78
  • B-Final — 4:51.55 (→ 9th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 3:51.47
  • Final — 3:50.12 (→ 6th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat — 4:16.83
  • Final — 4:14.05 (→ 4th place)

Synchronized swimming[]

Weightlifting[]

Wrestling[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
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