Wikipedia:Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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Great Britain at the Olympic Games
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At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Competitors
Flag bearer	Lord Burghley
Medals Rank: 8	Gold 4	Silver 7	Bronze 5	Total 16
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. British athletes won four gold medals (up from three in 1928), and sixteen medals overall, finishing eighth.

Contents 1 Medallists 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Rowing

Medallists

Gold

• Thomas Hampson — Athletics, Men's 800 metres
• Tommy Green — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
• Lewis Clive and Hugh Edwards — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
• John Badcock, Jack Beresford, Hugh Edwards, and Rowland George — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours

Silver

• John Cornes — Athletics, Men's 1500 metres
• Samuel Ferris — Athletics, Men's Marathon
• Thomas Evenson — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
• Lord David Burghley, Thomas Hampson, Godfrey Rampling, and Crew Stoneley — Athletics, Men's 4x400m Relay
• Ernest Chambers and Stanley Chambers — Cycling, Men's 2000m Tandem
• Judy Guinness — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
• Peter Jaffe and George Colin Ratsey — Sailing, Men's Star

Bronze

• Donald Finlay — Athletics, Men's 110m Hurdles
• Nellie Halstead, Eileen Hiscock, Gwendoline Porter, and Violet Webb — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
• William Harvell, Charles Holland, Ernest Johnson, and Frank Southall — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
• Valerie Davies — Swimming, Women's 100m Backstroke
• Joyce Cooper, Valerie Davies, Edna Hughes, and Helen Varcoe — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Rowing

• Single scull - Dick Southwood - Fourth

• Coxless pair - Lewis Clive, Hugh Edwards - Gold
• Coxless four - John Badcock, Jack Beresford, Hugh Edwards, and Rowland George - Gold

• Eight - Tom Askwith, D Haig-Thomas, C J S Sergel, D H E McCowan, K M Payne, H R N Rickett, J M Ranking, W A T Sambell, L Luxton - Fourth

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