New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games explained

Cga:	NZL
Cganame:	New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association
Games:	British Empire Games
Year:	1938
Location:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Competitors:	69
Flagbearer:	Opening: Jim Leckie Closing:
Rank:	5
Gold:	5
Silver:	7
Bronze:	13
Officials:	13

New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games was represented by a team of 69 competitors and 13 officials, including 18 athletes, 15 rowers, eight swimmers and divers, and seven each of boxers, cyclists and wrestlers.^[1] Selection of the team for the Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was Jim Leckie. The New Zealand team finished fifth on the medal table, winning a total of 25 medals, five of which were gold.

New Zealand has competed in every games, starting with the British Empire Games in 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario.

Medal tables

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's 880 yards
			Men's 3 miles
			Men's 6 miles
			Men's four
			Men's pairs
			Men's javelin throw
			Men's welterweight
			Men's road race
			Men's singles
			Men's coxed four
			Men's lightweight
			Men's heavyweight
			Men's 4 x 440 yards relay
			Men's 1 mile
			Women's high jump
			Men's hammer throw
			Women's 80 m hurdles
			Men's featherweight
			Men's sprint
			Men's eight
			Men's double sculls
			Men's single sculls
			Women's 440 yards freestyle
			Men's featherweight
			Men's welterweight

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
	3	1	5	9
	2	1	0	3
	0	2	2	4
	0	1	3	4
	0	1	1	2
	0	1	1	2
	0	0	1	1
Total	5	7	13	25

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Male	5	7	10	22
Female	0	0	3	3
Total	5	7	13	25

Competitors

The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	13	5	18
Boxing	7		7
Cycling	7		7
Diving	0	1	1
Lawn bowls	7		7
Rowing	15		15
Swimming	4	3	7
Wrestling	7		7
Total	60	9	69

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1938 British Empire Games.

Track

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Theo Allen	align=left	Men's 880 yards	1:54.5	1		5
align=left	Men's 1 mile	4:20.0	4	DNF
Arnold Anderson	align=left	Men's 440 yards hurdles		5
align=left rowspan=2	Pat Boot	align=left	Men's 880 yards	1:52.3 GR	1	1:51.2 GR
align=left	Men's 1 mile		2	4:12.6
align=left rowspan=2	Alan Geddes	align=left	Men's 3 miles		7
align=left	Men's 6 miles		4
align=left rowspan=2	Doreen Lumley	align=left	Women's 100 yards		2		4	did not advance
align=left	Women's 220 yards			did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Cecil Matthews	align=left	Men's 3 miles	13:59.6 GR
align=left	Men's 6 miles	30:14.5 GR
Bill Pullar	align=left	Men's 1 mile	4:19.5	3		6
align=left rowspan=2	Graham Quinn	align=left	Men's 100 yards		5	did not advance
align=left	Men's 220 yards		2		5	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Alan Sayers	align=left	Men's 220 yards		5	did not advance
align=left	Men's 440 yards		3	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Frank Sharpley	align=left	Men's 100 yards		3	10.4	6	did not advance
align=left	Men's 120 yards hurdles		3	15.0	6
align=left rowspan=2	Doris Strachan	align=left	Women's 100 yards	11.8	4	did not advance
align=left	Women's 220 yards		4	did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Rona Tong	align=left	Women's 80 yards hurdles		2	11.8
align=left	Women's 100 yards		5	did not advance
Harold Tyrie	align=left	Men's 440 yards	49.3	2		6
Arnold Anderson Graham Quinn Alan Sayers Harold Tyrie	align=left	Men's 4 x 440 yards relay	3:22.0
Doreen Lumley Doris Strachan Rona Tong	align=left	Women's 110-220-110 yards relay		4

Field

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
align=left	Betty Forbes	align=left	Women's high jump	5feet
align=left	Stan Lay	align=left	Men's javelin throw	204feet
align=left rowspan=2	Jim Leckie	align=left	Men's discus throw
align=left	Men's hammer throw	145feet
align=left	Mary Mitchell	align=left	Women's javelin throw	118feet	4
align=left	Jack Morgan	align=left	Men's discus throw	119feet	8
align=left	Doris Strachan	align=left	Women's long jump	17feet	6

Boxing

Athlete	Event	width=125	Quarter Final	width=125	Semi Final	width=125	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Hugh Sheridan	Flyweight		L	L	4
Jack Parker	Bantamweight	L	did not advance
Kenneth Moran	Featherweight		L	W
Joseph Collins	Lightweight	L	did not advance
Darcy Heeney	Welterweight		W	L
Artie Sutherland	Middleweight	L	did not advance
Ron Withell	Heavyweight		L	L	4

Cycling

Road

Men's road race

Athlete	Time	Rank
John Brown	2:53:29
Frank Grose
Ronald Triner		7

Track

Men's 1000 m sprint

Athlete	Heat	Repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
George Giles	W 12.9		W 13.0	L 12.9	W 12.9
Roy Taylor	W 12.5		L 12.7	did not advance
Ron Ulmer	W 13.0		W 12.8	L 12.9	L 12.9	4

Men's 1 km time trial

Athlete	Time	Rank
George Giles	1:17.3	9
Roy Taylor	1:16.7	7
Ron Ulmer	1:16.6	6

Men's 10 miles track race

Athlete	Time	Rank
George Giles
Gordon Patrick	unplaced
Ron Ulmer

Lawn bowls

See main article: Lawn bowls at the 1938 British Empire Games.

Athlete	Event	Round robin					Playoff	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Frank Livingstone	Men's singles	W 26 – 5	W 27 – 18	W 25 – 12	L 19 – 26	W 26 – 9
Lance Macey Walter Denison	Men's pairs	W 22 – 20	L 20 – 21	W 24 – 13	W 25 – 21	W 25 – 21
Bill Whittaker Alec Robertson Ernie Jury Bill Bremner	Men's four	W 26 – 11	W 21 – 19	W 19 – 14	L 16 – 17	W 22 – 12	W 19 – 6

Rowing

Athlete	Event	Rank
Bob Smith	Men's single sculls
Gus Jackson Bob Smith	Men's double sculls
John Rigby Ken Boswell Albert Hope Jim Clayton George Burns (cox)	Men's coxed four
Les Pithie Oswald Denison John Charters Howard Benge Gus Jackson Cyril Stiles Rangi Thompson James Gould William Stodart (cox)	Men's eight

Percival Stowers and Cliff Johnson accompanied the team as emergencies, but did not compete.

Swimming

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Noel Crump	align=left	Men's 110 yards freestyle		4	did not advance
align=left	Men's 440 yards freestyle		5	did not advance
align=left	Jack Davies	align=left	Men's 220 yards breaststroke	3:10.4	4	did not advance
align=left	Winnie Dunn	align=left	Women's 220 yards breaststroke		7
align=left	Peter Hanan	align=left	Men's 110 yards freestyle	1:00.5	4 q		5
align=left	Mona Leydon	align=left	Women's 440 yards freestyle	5:36.8	2 Q	5:42.0
align=left	Joyce Macdonald	align=left	Women's 110 yards backstroke	1:28.6		did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Len Newell	align=left	Men's 440 yards freestyle		7	did not advance
align=left	Men's 1650 yards freestyle			did not advance
align=left	Joyce Macdonald Mona Leydon Winnie Dunn	align=left	Women's 3 x 110 yards medley relay	4:22.3	5

Wrestling

Athlete	Event	Elimination rounds			Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Leo Nolan	Bantamweight	W	L	L		4
Joseph Genet	Featherweight	L	L
Vernon Thomas	Lightweight		L	W
Jerry Podjursky	Welterweight	L	L		Did not advance
Harcourt Godfrey	Middleweight		L	L	did not advance
Torsten Anderson	Light heavyweight	L	L		Did not advance	4
Jim Dryden	Heavyweight	W	W		L

Officials

• Team manager – H. McCormick
• Deputy team manager – Dolph Kitto
• Athletics coach – B. R. McKernan
• Boxing manager – F. Hughes
• Cycling manager – H. L. Grant
• Lawn bowls
  • Manager – A. Whitten
  • Assistant manager – E. Petty
• Rowing
  • Manager – Allen Hale
  • Coach – Herbert Ayers
• Swimming manager – Edward Clarke Isaacs
• Wrestling
  • Manager – J. Creeke
  • Coach – A. Craig
• Chaperone – E. G. Sutherland

See also

• New Zealand Olympic Committee
• New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games
• New Zealand at the 1936 Summer Olympics

References

• All team lists and results from NZOC

External links

• NZOC website on the 1938 games
• Commonwealth Games Federation website
• Athletes in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand has a paragraph on these Games

Notes and References

1. News: For Sydney . 14 January 1938 . Evening Post . 14 June 2018 . 11.

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