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Great Britain

Britain's first Olympic Champion was 21-year old weightlifter Launceston Elliot who won the one-handed weightlifting event on the first day of competition at the I. Olympic Games, Athens on 7 April 1896.

300 Britons and 11 Irishmen have been Olympic Champion prior to WW2 winning a total of 120 Gold Medals.

The 11 competitors from Ireland who represented Great Britain are marked with *

Archery

Boxing

Cricket

Cycling

Figure Skating

Field Hockey

Ice Hockey

Motor Boating

Polo

Rackets

Rowing

Shooting

Football (Soccer)

Swimming

Tennis

Track & Field

Tug of War

Waterpolo

Weightlifting

 

Wrestling

Yachting

Art Contests

 

 

M/F

Name

Year

Gold

born

died

 

ARCHERY

 

 

 

 

F

Queenie Newall

1908

1

17.10.1854

24.6.1929

M

William Dod

1908

1

18.7.1867

8.10.1954

 

BOXING

 

 

 

 

M

Johnny Douglas

1908

1

3.9.1882

19.12.1930

M

Fred Grace

1908

1

29.2.1884

23.7.1964

M

Richard Gunn

1908

1

16.2.1871

23.6.1961

M

Albert Oldman

1908

1

18.11.1883

 

M

Henry Thomas

1908

1

1.7.1888

13.1.1963

M

Henry Mallin

1920

2

1.6.1892

8.11.1969

M

Ronald Rawson

1920

1

17.6.1882

30.3.1952

M

Harry Mitchell

1924

1

5.1.1898

8.2.1983

 

CRICKET

 

 

 

 

M

Charles Beachcroft

1900

1

13.3.1871

15.5.1927

M

Arthur Birkett

1900

1

25.10.1875

1.4.1941

M

Alfred Bowerman

1900

1

22.11.1873

1959

M

George Buckley

1900

1

1876

14.2.1955

M

Francis Burchell

1900

1

25.11.1873

6.7.1947

M

Fred Christian

1900

1

1877

13.5.1941

M

Harry Corner

1900

1

9.7.1874

7.6.1938

M

Frederick Cuming

1900

1

27.5.1875

22.3.1942

M

William Donne

1900

1

2.4.1876

24.3.1934

M

Alfred Powlesland

1900

1

1875

25.2.1941

M

John Symes

1900

1

11.1.1879

21.9.1942

M

Montague Toller

1900

1

1.1.1871

5.8.1948

 

CYCLING

 

 

 

 

M

Clarrie Kingsbury

1908

2

3.11.1882

4.3.1949

M

Victor Johnson

1908

1

10.5.1883

29.6.1951

M

Charles Bartlett

1908

1

6.2.1885

30.11.1968

M

Ben Jones

1908

2

1882

 

M

Leon Meredith

1908

1

2.2.1882

27.1.1930

M

Ernie Payne

1908

1

23.12.1884

10.9.1961

M

Tommy Lance

1920

1

14.6.1891

29.2.1976

M

Harry Ryan

1920

1

21.11.1893

14.4.1961

 

FIGURE SKATING

 

 

 

 

F

Madge Syers

1908

1

1882

9.9.1917

 

FIELD HOCKEY

 

 

 

 

M

Louis Baillon

1908

1

5.8.1881

2.9.1965

M

Harry Freeman

1908

1

7.2.1876

5.10.1968

M

Eric Green

1908

1

28.8.1878

23.12.1972

M

Gerald Logan

1908

1

29.12.1879

 

M

Alan Noble

1908

1

 

 

M

Edgar Page

1908

1

31.12.1884

12.5.1956

M

Reggie Pridmore

1908

1

29.4.1886

13.3.1918

M

Percy Rees

1908

1

27.9.1883

12.6.1970

M

John Robinson

1908

1

6.8.1885

23.8.1916

M

Stanley Shoveller

1908

2

2.9.1881

24.2.1959

M

Harvey Wood

1908

1

10.4.1885

 

M

Charles Atkin

1920

1

26.2.1889

9.5.1958

M

John Bennett

1920

1

11.8.1885

27.5.1973

M

Harold Cassels

1920

1

4.11.1898

23.1.1975

M

Harold Cooke

1920

1

 

 

M

Eric Crockford

1920

1

13.10.1888

17.1.1958

M

Rex Crummack

1920

1

16.2.1887

25.10.1966

M

Harry Haslam

1920

1

7.2.1883

7.2.1955

M

Arthur Leighton

1920

1

6.3.1889

15.6.1939

M

Sholto Marcon

1920

1

31.3.1890

17.11.1959

M

Jack McBryan

1920

1

22.7.1892

14.7.1983

M

George McGrath

1920

1

 

 

M

Faulder Smith

1920

1

14.11.1886

3.3.1937

M

Cyril Wilkinson

1920

1

4.10.1884

16.12.1970

 

ICE HOCKEY

 

 

 

 

M

Alexander Archer

1936

1

1.5.1910

29.7.1997

M

Jimmy Borland

1936

1

25.3.1911

1938

M

Edgar Brenchley

1936

1

10.2.1912

13.3.1975

M

James Chappell

1936

1

25.3.1914

3.4.1976

M

John Coward

1936

1

28.8.1907

8.2.1989

M

Gordon Dailley

1936

1

24.7.1911

3.5.1989

M

Gerry Davey

1936

1

5.9.1914

12.2.1977

M

Carl Erhardt

1936

1

15.2.1897

3.5.1988

M

James Foster

1936

1

13.9.1905

4.1.1969

M

John Kilpatrick

1936

1

7.7.1917

18.12.1989

M

Archie Stinchcombe

1936

1

17.11.1912

3.11.1994

M

Bob Wyman

1936

1

27.4.1909

1978

 

Motor Boating

 

 

 

 

M

John Field-Richard

1908

2

10.5.1878

18.4.1959

M

Bernard Redwood

1908

2

21.11.1874

28.9.1911

M

Tom Thornycroft

1908

2

22.11.1881

6.6.1955

 

POLO

 

 

 

 

M

*John Beresford

1900

1

10.6.1847

8.5.1925

M

*Denis Daly

1900

1

5.9.1862

16.4.1942

M

Alfred Rawlinson

1900

1

17.1.1867

1.6.1934

M

George Miller

1908

1

6.12.1867

21.2.1935

M

Charles Miller

1908

1

23.10.1868

22.12.1951

M

Patteson Nickalls

1908

1

23.1.1876

10.9.1946

M

Herbert Wilson

1908

1

14.2.1875

11.4.1917

M

*Frederick Barrett

1920

1

20.6.1875

7.11.1949

M

Vivian Lockett

1920

1

18.7.1880

30.5.1962

M

Tim Melvill

1920

1

13.2.1877

12.12.1951

M

Jack Wodehouse

1920

1

11.11.1883

16.4.1941

 

Rackets

 

 

 

 

M

John Astor

1908

1

20.5.1886

19.7.1971

M

Evan Noel

1908

1

23.1.1879

22.12.1928

M

Vane Pennell

1908

1

16.8.1876

17.6.1938

 

ROWING

 

 

 

 

M

Harry Blackstaffe

1908

1

28.7.1868

22.8.1951

M

Henry Bucknall

1908

1

4.7.1885

1.1.1962

M

Charles Burnell

1908

1

13.1.1876

3.10.1969

M

Collier Cudmore

1908

1

13.6.1885

16.5.1971

M

Raymond Etherington-Smith

1908

1

11.4.1877

19.4.1913

M

John Fenning

1908

1

23.6.1885

3.1.1955

M

Angus Gillan

1908

2

11.10.1885

23.4.1981

M

Albert Gladstone

1908

1

28.10.1886

2.3.1967

M

Banner Johnstone

1908

1

11.11.1882

20.6.1964

M

Frederick Kelly

1908

1

29.5.1881

13.11.1916

M

Duncan Mackinnon

1908

1

29.9.1887

9.10.1917

M

Gilchrist Maclagen

1908

1

5.10.1879

25.4.1915

M

Guy Nickalls

1908

1

13.11.1866

8.7.1935

M

Ronald Sanderson

1908

1

11.12.1876

17.4.1918

M

John Somers-Smith

1908

1

15.12.1887

1.7.1916

M

Gordon Thomson

1908

1

27.3.1884

8.7.1953

M

Edgar Burgess

1912

1

23.9.1891

23.4.1952

M

Philip Fleming

1912

1

15.8.1889

13.10.1971

M

Stanley Garton

1912

1

31.3.1889

20.10.1960

M

Ewart Horsfall

1912

1

24.5.1892

1.2.1974

M

Wally Kinnear

1912

1

3.12.1880

5.3.1974

M

Alister Kirby

1912

1

14.4.1886

29.3.1917

M

Sidney Swann

1912

1

24.6.1890

19.9.1976

M

Henry Wells

1912

1

12.1.1891

4.7.1967

M

Leslie Wormwald

1912

1

19.8.1890

10.7.1965

M

Jack Beresford

1924

3

1.1.1899

3.12.1977

M

Maxwell Eley

1924

1

16.9.1902

15.1.1983

M

James Macnabb

1924

1

26.12.1901

6.4.1990

M

Robert Morrison

1924

1

26.3.1902

19.2.1980

M

*Terence Sanders

1924

1

2.6.1901

6.4.1985

M

Richard Beesly

1928

1

27.7.1907

28.3.1965

M

Edward Bevan

1928

1

3.11.1907

23.2.1988

M

John Lander

1928

1

7.9.1907

25.12.1941

M

Michael Warriner

1928

1

3.12.1908

7.4.1986

M

John Badcock

1932

1

17.1.1903

29.5.1976

M

Lewis Clive

1932

1

8.9.1910

2.8.1938

M

Hugh Edwards

1932

2

17.11.1906

21.12.1972

M

Roland George

1932

1

15.1.1905

9.9.1997

M

Dick Southwood

1936

1

18.1.1906

7.2.1986

 

SHOOTING

 

 

 

 

M

Edward Amoore

1908

1

20.3.1877

11.7.1955

M

Arthur Carnell

1908

1

21.3.1862

11.9.1940

M

Philip Easte

1908

1

 

 

M

John Fleming

1908

1

26.8.1881

9.1.1965

M

Harry Humby

1908

1

8.4.1879

23.2.1923

M

Maurice Matthews

1908

1

21.6.1889

20.6.1937

M

Alex Maunder

1908

1

3.2.1861

2.2.1932

M

*Jerry Millner

1908

1

5.7.1847

16.11.1931

M

Frank Moore

1908

1

 

 

M

Charles Palmer

1908

1

18.8.1869

 

M

James Pike

1908

1

 

 

M

William Pimm

1908

2

10.12.1864

1952

M

 John Postans 1908 1

1869

1934

M

William Styles

1908

1

11.10.1874

8.4.1940

M

Edward Lessimore

1912

1

20.1.1881

7.3.1960

M

Robert Murray

1912

1

18.2.1870

28.4.1948

M

Joseph Pepé

1912

1

5.3.1881

 

M

Cyril Mackworth-Praed

1924

1

21.9.1891

30.6.1974

M

Philip Neame

1924

1

12.12.1888

28.4.1978

M

Herbert Perry

1924

1

23.1.1894

20.7.1966

M

Allen Whitty

1924

1

5.5.1867

22.7.1949

 

FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

 

 

 

 

M

J E Barridge

1900

1

 

 

M

Claude Buckenham

1900

1

16.1.1876

23.2.1937

M

Alfred Chalk

1900

1

27.11.1874

 

M

William Gosling

1900

1

19.7.1869

2.10.1952

M

A Haslam

1900

1

 

 

M

John H Jones

1900

1

 

 

M

J Nicholas

1900

1

 

 

M

Bill Quash

1900

1

27.12.1868

 

M

F G Spackman

1900

1

 

 

M

Arthur Turner

1900

1

 

 

M

James Zealy

1900

1

7.3.1868

1934

M

Horace Bailey

1908

1

3.7.1881

1.8.1960

M

Arthur Berry

1908

2

3.1.1888

15.3.1953

M

Frederick Chapman

1908

1

10.5.1883

7.9.1951

M

Walter Corbett

1908

1

26.11.1880

23.11.1960

M

Harold Hardman

1908

1

4.4.1882

9.6.1965

M

Robert Hawkes

1908

1

18.10.1880

12.9.1945

M

Kenneth Hunt

1908

1

24.2.1884

28.4.1949

M

Clyde Purnell

1908

1

14.5.1877

14.8.1934

M

Herbert Smith

1908

1

22.11.1879

6.1.1951

M

Henry Stapley

1908

1

29.4.1883

29.4.1937

M

Vivian Woodward

1908

2

3.6.1879

31.1.1954

M

Roland Brebner

1912

1

23.9.1881

11.11.1914

M

Thomas Burn

1912

1

29.11.1889

25.9.1916

M

Joseph Dines

1912

1

12.4.1886

27.9.1918

M

Edward Hanney

1912

1

19.1.1889

8.12.1964

M

Gordon Hoare

1912

1

18.4.1884

27.10.1973

M

Arthur Knight

1912

1

7.9.1887

10.3.1956

M

Henry Littlewort

1912

1

7.7.1882

21.11.1934

M

Douglas McWhirter

1912

1

13.8.1886

14.10.1966

M

Ivan Sharpe

1912

1

15.6.1889

9.2.1968

M

Harold Stamper

1912

1

6.10.1889

1.1939

M

Harold Walden

1912

1

10.10.1889

2.12.1955

M

Gordon Wright

1912

1

3.10.1884

5.6.1947

 

SWIMMING

 

 

 

 

M

Rob Derbyshire

1900

2

29.11.1878

30.7.1938

M

Jack Jarvis

1900

2

24.2.1872

9.5.1933

M

Henry Taylor

1908

3

17.3.1885

28.2.1951

M

Fred Holman

1908

1

3.1885

23.1.1913

M

Paul Radmilovic

1908

4

5.3.1886

29.9.1968

M

William Foster

1908

1

10.7.1890

17.12.1963

F

Jennie Fletcher

1912

1

19.3.1890

17.1.1968

F

Isabella Moore

1912

1

23.10.1894

7.3.1975

F

Annie Speirs

1912

1

14.7.1889

9.10.1926

F

Irene Steer

1912

1

10.8.1889

18.4.1947

F

Lucy Morton

1924

1

23.2.1898

26.8.1980

 

TENNIS

 

 

 

 

M

*John Boland

1896

2

16.9.1870

17.3.1958

F

Charlotte Cooper

1900

2

22.9.1870

10.10.1966

M

Laurie Doherty

1900

2

8.10.1875

21.8.1919

M

Reggie Doherty

1900

3

14.10.1872

29.12.1910

F

Gladys Eastlake-Smith

1908

1

14.8.1883

18.9.1941

M

Roper Barrett

1908

1

24.11.1873

27.7.1943

M

Wentworth Gore

1908

2

2.1.1868

1.12.1928

F

Dolly Lambert Chambers

1908

1

3.9.1878

7.1.1960

M

George Hillyard

1908

1

6.2.1864

24.3.1943

M

Major Ritchie

1908

1

18.10.1870

28.2.1955

F

Edith Hannam

1912

2

28.11.1878

16.1.1951

M

Charles Dixon

1912

1

7.2.1873

29.4.1939

F

Kathleen McKane

1920

1

7.5.1896

19.6.1992

F

Winifred McNair

1920

1

9.8.1877

28.3.1954

M

Noel Turnbull

1920

1

23.12.1890

17.12.1970

M

Maxwell Woosnam

1920

1

6.9.1892

14.7.1965

 

TRACK & FIELD

 

 

 

 

M

Charles Bennett

1900

2

28.12.1870

9.3.1949

M

John Rimmer

1900

2

27.4.1878

6.6.1962

M

Alfred Tysoe

1900

2

21.3.1874

26.10.1901

M

Sidney Robinson

1900

1

25.8.1877

3.2.1959

M

*Tom Kiely

1904

1

25.8.1869

6.11.1951

M

George Larner

1908

2

7.2.1875

4.3.1949

M

William Coales

1908

1

8.1.1886

19.1.1960

M

Joe Deakin

1908

1

6.2.1879

30.6.1972

M

Norman Hallows

1908

1

29.12.1886

16.10.1968

M

Archie Robertson

1908

1

19.4.1879

18.4.1957

M

Harold Wilson

1908

1

22.1.1885

1916

M

Arthur Russell

1908

1

13.3.1886

23.8.1972

M

Emil Voigt

1908

1

12.1882

16.10.1973

M

*Timothy Ahearne

1908

1

18.8.1885

12.1968

M

Wyndham Halswelle

1908

1

30.5.1882

31.3.1915

M

Willie Applegarth

1912

1

11.5.1890

5.12.1958

M

Vic d'Arcy

1912

1

30.6.1887

12.3.1961

M

David Jacobs

1912

1

30.4.1888

5.6.1976

M

Henry Macintosh

1912

1

10.6.1892

26.7.1918

M

Arnold Jackson

1912

1

5.4.1891

13.11.1972

M

Albert Hill

1920

2

24.3.1889

8.1.1969

M

Percy Hodge

1920

1

26.12.1890

27.12.1967

M

John Ainsworth-Davis

1920

1

23.4.1895

3.1.1976

M

Guy Butler

1920

1

25.8.1899

22.2.1981

M

Cecil Griffiths

1920

1

20.1.1901

29.7.1973

M

Robert Lindsay

1920

1

18.4.1890

21.10.1958

M

Harold Abrahams

1924

1

15.12.1899

14.1.1978

M

Douglas Lowe

1924

2

7.8.1902

30.3.1981

M

Eric Liddell

1924

1

16.1.1902

21.2.1945

M

Lord David Burghley

1928

1

9.2.1905

22.10.1981

M

Thomas Hampson

1932

1

28.10.1907

4.9.1965

M

Tommy Green

1932

1

30.3.1894

29.3.1975

M

Harold Whitlock

1936

1

16.12.1903

27.12.1985

M

Godfrey Brown

1936

1

21.2.1915

4.2.1995

M

Godfrey Rampling

1936

1

14.5.1909

20.6.2009

M

William Roberts

1936

1

5.4.1912

5.12.2001

M

Freddie Wolff

1936

1

13.10.1910

26.1.1988

 

Tug of War

 

 

 

 

M

*Edward Barrett

1908

1

3.11.1880

 

M

Fred Goodfellow

1908

1

7.3.1874

22.11.1960

M

William Hirons

1908

1

15.6.1871

5.1.1958

M

Fred Humphreys

1908

2

28.1.1878

10.8.1954

M

Albert Ireton

1908

1

15.5.1879

4.1.1947

M

Fred Merriman

1908

1

18.5.1873

27.6.1940

M

Edwin Mills

1908

2

17.5.1878

12.11.1946

M

John Shepherd

1908

2

2.6.1884

9.7.1954

M

George Canning

1920

1

23.8.1889

 

M

Fred Holmes

1920

1

9.8.1886

9.11.1944

M

John Sewell

1920

1

23.4.1882

18.7.1947

M

Harry Stiff

1920

1

23.10.1881

17.4.1939

M

Ernest Thorne

1920

1

7.6.1887

18.11.1968

 

Water Polo

 

 

 

 

M

Thomas Coe

1900

1

1880

 

M

Peter Kemp

1900

1

1878

 

M

Bill Lister

1900

1

1882

 

M

Arthur Robertson

1900

1

1879

 

M

Eric Robinson

1900

1

1878

 

M

George Wilkinson

1900

3

2.3.1879

7.8.1946

M

George Cornet

1908

2

15.7.1877

22.11.1952

M

Charles Forsyth

1908

1

10.1.1885

24.2.1951

M

George Nevinson

1908

1

3.10.1882

13.3.1963

M

Charles Smith

1908

3

26.1.1879

6.4.1951

M

Tom Thould

1908

2

11.1.1886

15.6.1971

M

Isaac Bentham

1912

1

27.10.1886

15.5.1917

M

Charles Bugbee

1912

2

29.8.1887

18.10.1959

M

Arthur Hill

1912

1

9.1.1888

 

M

Billy Dean

1920

1

6.2.1887

2.5.1949

M

Chris Jones

1920

1

23.6.1886

18.12.1937

M

Bill Peacock

1920

1

6.12.1891

14.12.1948

M

*Noel Purcell

1920

1

14.11.1891

31.1.1962

 

WEIGHTLIFTING

 

 

 

 

M

Launceston Elliot

1896

1

9.6.1874

8.8.1930

 

Wrestling - Freestyle

 

 

 

 

M

Stanley Bacon

1908

1

13.8.1885

13.10.1952

M

*Con O'Kelly

1908

1

29.10.1886

3.11.1947

M

George de Relwyskow

1908

1

18.6.1887

9.11.1942

 

YACHTING

 

 

 

 

M

Lorne Currie

1900

1

25.4.1871

21.6.1926

M

John Gretton

1900

1

1.9.1867

2.6.1947

M

Algernon Maudslay

1900

1

10.1.1873

2.3.1948

M

Cecil Quentin

1900

1

1852

29.10.1926

M

William Exshaw

1900

1

15.2.1866

16.3.1927

M

Charles Rivett-Carnac

1908

1

18.2.1853

9.9.1935

F

Frances Rivett-Carnac

1908

1

1875

1.1.1962

M

Norman Bingley

1908

1

 

 

M

Charles Campbell

1908

1

14.12.1881

19.4.1948

M

Blair Cochrane

1908

1

11.9.1853

7.12.1928

M

Charles Crichton

1908

1

7.7.1872

8.11.1958

M

Richard Dixon

1908

1

20.11.1865

14.11.1949

M

Gilbert Laws

1908

1

6.1.1870

3.12.1918

M

Thomas McMeekin

1908

1

12.12.1852

9.12.1949

M

John Rhodes

1908

1

13.2.1870

6.2.1947

M

Henry Sutton

1908

1

26.9.1868

24.5.1936

M

Arthur Wood

1908

1

29.3.1875

1.6.1939

M

John Aspin

1908

1

31.3.1877

19.2.1960

M

John Buchanan

1908

1

1.1.1884

17.11.1943

M

James Bunten

1908

1

28.3.1875

3.6.1935

M

Arthur Downes

1908

1

23.2.1883

12.9.1956

M

Henry Downes

1908

1

18.10.1870

1.1.1943

M

David Dunlop

1908

1

 

 

M

Thomas Glen-Coats

1908

1

5.5.1878

7.3.1954

M

John Mackenzie

1908

1

21.9.1876

9.12.1949

M

Albert Martin

1908

1

 

 

M

Gerald Tait

1908

1

7.11.1866

19.12.1938

M

Cyril Wright

1920

1

17.9.1885

27.6.1960

F

Dorothy Wright

1920

1

19.8.1889

 

M

Robert Coleman

1920

1

1888

1.1.1960

M

William Maddison

1920

1

 

 

M

Miles Bellville

1936

1

28.4.1909

27.10.1980

M

Chris Boardman

1936

1

11.6.1903

29.9.1987

M

Russell Harmer

1936

1

5.11.1896

31.10.1940

M

Charles Leaf

1936

1

13.11.1895

19.2.1947

M

Leonard Martin

1936

1

24.11.1901

1968
  Art Contests        

M

 Charles Bruce 1924

1

7.4.1866

12.7.1939

M

 William Nicholson 1928

1

5.2.1872

16.5.1949

M

 John Hughes 1932

1

14.6.1903

20.2.1977

I would be grateful for any corrections and additional biographical information.

Last updated: 10 April 2010