Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:GBR
Nocname:British Olympic Association
Games:Winter Olympics
Year:1924
Flagcaption:Flag of the United Kingdom
Location:Chamonix
Competitors:44 (41 men, 3 women)
Sports:6
Rank:6
Gold:1
Silver:1
Bronze:2
Appearances:auto
See also:1906 Intercalated Games

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 3 February 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

MedalNameSportEvent
William Jackson
Thomas Murray

Men's event

Thomas Arnold

Four/five-man
Women's singles
Great Britain men's national ice hockey team
Men's competition

Bobsleigh

See main article: article and Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
GBR-1Ralph Broome
Thomas Arnold
Alexander Richardson
Rodney Soher
Four/five-man1:28.7321:28.6721:25.7621:25.6715:48.83
GBR-2William Horton
Archibald Crabbe
Gerard Fairlie
George Pim
Four/five-man1:42.3351:41.2851:38.5851:38.5256:40.715

Curling

See main article: article and Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

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2 2 0 84 11 4
2 1 1 25 48 2
2 0 2 14 64 0

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SkipWillie Jackson
Robin Welsh
Thomas Murray
Laurence Jackson

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

Men
AthleteEventCFFSPointsPlacesFinal rank
Herbert ClarkeMen's singles1011219.757010
Jack Page65295.36365
Women
AthleteEventCFFSPointsPlacesFinal rank
Kathleen ShawWomen's singles86221.00467
Ethel Muckelt37250.0726
Pairs
AthletesPointsScoreFinal rank
Mildred Richardson
Tyke Richardson
577.688
Ethel Muckelt
Jack Page
30.59.934

Ice hockey

See main article: article and Ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

Group B

The top two teams (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

TeamGPWLGFGA
330520
3213416
312942
303845
29 Jan2:15
(1:5,1:3,0:7)
30 Jan19:3
(8:1,6:1,5:1)
31 Jan11:0
(6:0,2:0,3:0)

Medal round

Results from the group round (Canada-Sweden and United States-Great Britain) carried forward to the medal round.

TeamGPWLGFGA
330473
321326
312633
303346
1 Feb19:2
(6:2,6:0,7:0)
2 Feb4:3
(0:1,2:2,2:0)

Speed skating

See main article: article and Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 mFred Dix56.423
Tom Sutton1:00.825
Cyril Horn1:04.427
5000 mAlbert Tebbit11:01.020

All-round
Distances: 500m; 5000m; 1500m & 10,000m.

AthleteUntil distance 1Until distance 2Until distance 3Total
PointsScorerankPointsScorerankPointsScorerankPointsScorerank
Fred Dix18.556.4018DNF
Tom Sutton2060.8020DNF
Cyril Horn2264.4022DNF

References