Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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Great Britain at the Olympic Games
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At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
Competitors
Medals Rank: 11	Gold 3	Silver 10	Bronze 7	Total 20
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. British athletes won only three gold medals (down from nine in 1924), and twenty medals overall, finishing eleventh.

Contents 1 Gold 1.1 Rowing 1.2 Track and field 2 Silver 2.1 Cycling 2.2 Fencing 2.3 Rowing 2.4 Swimming 2.5 Track and field 3 Bronze 3.1 Cycling 3.2 Gymnastics 3.3 Rowing 3.4 Swimming 3.5 Track and field 3.6 Wrestling - freestyle 4 Results by event 4.1 Boxing 5 References

[edit] Gold

[edit] Rowing

• Coxless four of Richard Beesly, Edward Vaughan Bevan, John Lander and Michael Warriner from the First Trinity Boat Club - 6:36.0

[edit] Track and field

• 800 metres - Douglas Lowe - 1:51.8
• 400 metre hurdles - David Burghley - 53.4s

[edit] Silver

[edit] Cycling

• Road individual time trial - Frank Southall - 4h: 55m: 06s.
• Time trial, team - Jack Lauterwasser, John Middleton and Frank Southall - 15h: 14m: 49s
• Tandem - John Sibbitt and Ernest Chambers

[edit] Fencing

• Women's foil - Muriel Freeman

[edit] Rowing

• Eights - crew from Thames Rowing Club - including Jack Beresford - 6:05.6
• Coxless pair - Terence O'Brien and Robert Archibald Nisbet - 7:08.6

[edit] Swimming

• Women's 100 metres backstroke - Ellen King - 1:22.2
• Women's 4 by 100 metres freestyle relay - 5:02.8

[edit] Track and field

• 100 metres - Jack London - 10.9s
• 200 metres - Walter Rangeley - 21.9s

[edit] Bronze

[edit] Cycling

• 4000 metre team pursuit - 5:02.4

[edit] Gymnastics

• Women's team combined exercises - 258.25 points

[edit] Rowing

• Single sculls - Theodore Collet - 7:29.8

[edit] Swimming

• Women's 100 metres freestyle - Joyce Cooper - 1:13.6
• Women's 100 metres backstroke - Joyce Cooper - 1:22.8

[edit] Track and field

• 4 by 100 metres relay - 41.8s

[edit] Wrestling - freestyle

• Middleweight - Samuel Rabin

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 50.8 kg)

• Cuthbert Taylor

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Juan José Trillo (ARG), points
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Armand Appel (FRA), points

Men's Lightweight (– 61.2 kg)

• Fred Webster

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Lost to David Baan (HOL), points

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 79.4 kg)

• Alfred Jackson

• First Round — Defeated Alfred Cleverley (NZL), points
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Karel Miljon (HOL), points

Men's Heavyweight (+ 79.4 kg)

• Joseph Goyder

• First Round — Lost to Sam Olij (HOL), points

[edit] References

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