Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Great Britain at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  GBR
NOC British Olympic Association
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At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Competitors 381 in 23 sports
Flag bearer Lucinda Green (opening) Sebastian Coe (closing)
Medals
Rank: 11		 Gold
5		 Silver
11		 Bronze
21		 Total
37
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The United Kingdom competed as Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Malcolm Cooper — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • David Ottley — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
  • Neil Adams — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Alister Allan — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
  • Barry Dagger — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle
  • David Mercer — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (90 kg)
  • Noel Loban — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight (90 kg)
  • Peter Allam and Jonathan Richards — Sailing, Men's Flying Dutchman

[edit] Results by event

[edit] 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)
  • Susan Wilcox - 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)

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Qualifying Heat — 28:24.92
  • Final — 28:06.22 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • 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

  • Final — 2:09:58 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Final — 2:13:57 (→ 12th place)
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's High Jump

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

Men's Triple Jump

  • Final — 16.87m (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Eric McCalla
  • Final — 16.66m (→ 8th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 85.68m
  • Final — 85.74m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Roald Bradstock
  • Qualification — 83.06m
  • Final — 81.22m (→ 7th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

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

Men's Pole Vault

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

Men's Decathlon

  • Final Result — 8797 points (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Brad McStravick
  • Final Result — 7890 points (→ 11th place)
  • Colin Boreham
  • Final Result — 7485 points (→ 20th place)

Men's 20km Walk

  • Philip Vesty
  • Final — 1:27:28 (→ 13th place)
  • Ian McCombie
  • Final — 1:28:53 (→ 19th place)
  • Steven John Barry
  • Final — 1:30:46 (→ 24th place)

[edit] 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)
  • Lynne MacDougall
  • Heat — 4:09.08
  • Final — 4:10.58 (→ 11th place)

Women's 3,000 metres

  • Heat — 8:58.66
  • Final — 8:39.47 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • 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)
  • Joyce Smith
  • Final — 2:32:48 (→ 11th place)
  • Sarah Rowell
  • Final — 2:34:08 (→ 14th place)

Women's 400m Hurdles

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

Women's High Jump

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

Women's Discus Throw

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

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 61.58m
  • Final — 69.56m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 65.30m
  • Final — 67.14m (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Sharon Gibson
  • Qualification — 60.88m
  • Final — 59.66m (→ 9th place)

Women's Heptathlon

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

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

  • John Lyon
    1. First Round — Defeated Alego Akomi (SUD), 5:0
    2. Second Round — Defeated Yehuda Ben Haim (ISR), 5:0
    3. Quarterfinals — Lost to Paul Gonzales (USA), 1:4

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)

  • Robert Wells → Bronze Medal
    1. First Round – Bye
    2. Quarterfinals – Defeated William Pulu (TNG), KO-1
    3. Semifinals – Lost to Francesco Damiani (ITA), RSC-3

[edit] Cycling

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)

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Catherine Swinnerton — 2:13:28 (→ 13th place)
  • Linda Gornall — 2:13:28 (→ 17th place)
  • Maria Blower — 2:22:03 (→ 29th place)
  • Muriel Sharp — 2:22:03 (→ 30th place)

[edit] Hockey

[edit] 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 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Team Roster

[edit] Swimming

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's 100m Freestyle

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

Men's 200m Freestyle

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

Men's 400m Freestyle

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

Men's 1500m Freestyle

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

Men's 100m Backstroke

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

Men's 200m 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 100m Breaststroke

  • 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 200m Breaststroke

  • 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 100m Butterfly

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

Men's 200m Butterfly

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

Men's 200m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 2:05.39
  • Final — 2:04.38 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Robin Brew
  • Heat — 2:04.13
  • Final — 2:04.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

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

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 3:24.59
  • Final — 3:23.61 (→ 5th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 7:26.83
  • Final — 7:24.78 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

  • Heat — 3:49.86
  • Final — 3:47.39 (→ 6th place)


[edit] Women's Competition

Women's 100m Freestyle

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

Women's 200m Freestyle

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

Women's 400m Freestyle

  • Heat — 4:11.55
  • Final — 4:10.27 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Heat — 4:15.51
  • Final — 4:11.49 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 800m Freestyle

  • Heat — 8:35.87
  • Final — 8:32.60 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 8:58.09 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Women's 100m Backstroke

  • Beverley Rose
  • 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 200m 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 200m 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 200m 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 400m Individual Medley

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

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

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

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

  • Beverley Rose, Jean Hill, Nicola Fibbens, and June Croft
  • Heat — 4:16.83
  • Final — 4:14.05 (→ 4th place)