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Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Field	Value
NOC	GBR
NOCname	British Olympic Association
games	Summer Olympics
year	1932
flagcaption	Flag of the United Kingdom
location	Los Angeles
competitors	108
sports	10
flagbearer	Lord Burghley
rank	8
gold	4
silver	7
bronze	5
appearances	auto
seealso	1906 Intercalated Games

Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed 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.

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Athletics	Men's 800 m	{{dts	format=dmy
		Athletics	Men's 50 km walk	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Hugh Edwards	Rowing	Men's coxless pair	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Jack Beresford,
Hugh Edwards, Rowland George	Rowing	Men's coxless four	{{dts	format=dmy
		Athletics	Men's 1500 m	{{dts	format=dmy
		Athletics	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Tommy Hampson,
Godfrey Rampling, Crew Stoneley	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 m relay	{{dts	format=dmy
		Athletics	Men's marathon	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Stanley Chambers	Cycling	Men's tandem	{{dts	format=dmy
		Fencing	Women's foil	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Peter Jaffe	Sailing	Star class	{{dts	format=dmy
		Athletics	Men's 110 m hurdles	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Eileen Hiscock,
Gwendoline Porter, Violet Webb	Athletics	Women's 4 × 100 m relay	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Charles Holland,
Ernest Johnson, Frank Southall	Cycling	Men's team pursuit	{{dts	format=dmy
		Swimming	Women's 100 m backstroke	{{dts	format=dmy
	, Valerie Davies,
Edna Hughes, Helen Varcoe	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	{{dts	format=dmy

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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

Main article: Fencing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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

;Men's foil

John Emrys Lloyd - 6th

;Women's foil

Judy Guinness - 2nd
Peggy Butler - 10th

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1932.

Percy Legard
Vernon Barlow
Jeffrey MacDougall

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics

;Men

Athlete	Event	Heat	Semifinal	Final
Mostyn Ffrench-Williams	100 m freestyle	1:05.9	18	Did not advance
Reginald Sutton	1:02.9	=13	Did not advance
Joseph Whiteside	1:04.7	16	Did not advance
Bob Leivers	400 m freestyle	5:14.6	13	Did not advance
Norman Wainwright	5:12.0	12	Did not advance
Willie Francis	100 m backstroke	1:12.9	6	Did not advance
Joseph Whiteside
Bob Leivers
Reginald Sutton
Mostyn Ffrench-Williams	4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	colspan=4	9:45.8	5

;Women

Athlete	Event	Heat	Semifinal	Final	Time	Rank	Time
Joyce Cooper	100 m freestyle	1:09.0 OR	3 Q	1:09.2	4	Did not advance
Valerie Davies	1:12.7	11	Did not advance
Edna Hughes	1:15.1	13	Did not advance
Joyce Cooper	400 m freestyle	5:56.7	6 Q	6:00.4	4 Q	5:49.7	4
Joyce Cooper	100 m backstroke	colspan=2	1:25.0	8 Q	1:23.4	6
Valerie Davies	colspan=2	1:22.0	3 Q	1:22.5
Phyllis Harding	colspan=2	1:22.6	5 q	1:22.6	4
Margery Hinton	200 m breaststroke	colspan=2	3:13.5	4 Q	3:11.7	4
Cecelia Wolstenholme	colspan=2	3:24.5	8	Did not advance
**Valerie Davies
Helen Varcoe
Joyce Cooper
Edna Hughes**	4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	colspan=4	4:52.4

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Art competitions

Main article: Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics

References

"Great Britain at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games". sports-reference.com.

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