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Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
GBR

Flag bearer
  
Lord Burghley

Competitors
  
108 in 10 sports

4
  
7

Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
British Olympic Association

Medals Ranked 8th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 4 7 5 16

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. 108 competitors, 90 men and 18 women, took part in 50 events in 10 sports. British athletes won four gold medals (up from three in 1928), and sixteen medals overall, finishing eighth.

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Cycling

Seven cyclists, all men, represented Great Britain in 1932.

Individual road race
  • Frank Southall
  • Charles Holland
  • Stanley Butler
  • William Harvell
  • Team road race
  • Frank Southall
  • Charles Holland
  • Stanley Butler
  • Sprint
  • Ernest Chambers
  • Time trial
  • William Harvell
  • Tandem
  • Ernest Chambers
  • Stanley Chambers
  • Team pursuit
  • Ernest Johnson
  • William Harvell
  • Frank Southall
  • Charles Holland
  • Fencing

    Three fencers, one man and two women, represented Great Britain in 1932.

    Men's foil
  • John Emrys Lloyd
  • Women's foil
  • Judy Guinness
  • Peggy Butler
  • Modern pentathlon

    Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1932.

  • Percy Legard
  • Vernon Barlow
  • Jeffrey MacDougall
  • 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 McCowen, K M Payne, H R N Rickett, W A T Sambell, L Luxton, J M Ranking - Fourth
  • References

    Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics Wikipedia