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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 *
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M/F |
Name |
Year |
Gold |
born |
died |
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F |
Queenie Newall |
1908 |
1 |
17.10.1854 |
24.6.1929 |
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M |
William Dod |
1908 |
1 |
18.7.1867 |
8.10.1954 |
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Johnny Douglas |
1908 |
1 |
3.9.1882 |
19.12.1930 |
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M |
Fred Grace |
1908 |
1 |
29.2.1884 |
23.7.1964 |
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M |
Richard Gunn |
1908 |
1 |
16.2.1871 |
23.6.1961 |
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M |
Albert Oldman |
1908 |
1 |
18.11.1883 |
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Henry Thomas |
1908 |
1 |
1.7.1888 |
13.1.1963 |
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M |
Henry Mallin |
1920 |
2 |
1.6.1892 |
8.11.1969 |
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M |
Ronald Rawson |
1920 |
1 |
17.6.1882 |
30.3.1952 |
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M |
Harry Mitchell |
1924 |
1 |
5.1.1898 |
8.2.1983 |
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M |
Charles Beachcroft |
1900 |
1 |
13.3.1871 |
15.5.1927 |
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M |
Arthur Birkett |
1900 |
1 |
25.10.1875 |
1.4.1941 |
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M |
Alfred Bowerman |
1900 |
1 |
22.11.1873 |
1959 |
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George Buckley |
1900 |
1 |
1876 |
14.2.1955 |
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M |
Francis Burchell |
1900 |
1 |
25.11.1873 |
6.7.1947 |
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Fred Christian |
1900 |
1 |
1877 |
13.5.1941 |
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Harry Corner |
1900 |
1 |
9.7.1874 |
7.6.1938 |
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M |
Frederick Cuming |
1900 |
1 |
27.5.1875 |
22.3.1942 |
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M |
William Donne |
1900 |
1 |
2.4.1876 |
24.3.1934 |
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M |
Alfred Powlesland |
1900 |
1 |
1875 |
25.2.1941 |
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John Symes |
1900 |
1 |
11.1.1879 |
21.9.1942 |
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M |
Montague Toller |
1900 |
1 |
1.1.1871 |
5.8.1948 |
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Clarrie Kingsbury |
1908 |
2 |
3.11.1882 |
4.3.1949 |
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Victor Johnson |
1908 |
1 |
10.5.1883 |
29.6.1951 |
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Charles Bartlett |
1908 |
1 |
6.2.1885 |
30.11.1968 |
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Ben Jones |
1908 |
2 |
1882 |
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Leon Meredith |
1908 |
1 |
2.2.1882 |
27.1.1930 |
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Ernie Payne |
1908 |
1 |
23.12.1884 |
10.9.1961 |
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Tommy Lance |
1920 |
1 |
14.6.1891 |
29.2.1976 |
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Harry Ryan |
1920 |
1 |
21.11.1893 |
14.4.1961 |
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F |
Madge Syers |
1908 |
1 |
1882 |
9.9.1917 |
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Louis Baillon |
1908 |
1 |
5.8.1881 |
2.9.1965 |
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Harry Freeman |
1908 |
1 |
7.2.1876 |
5.10.1968 |
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Eric Green |
1908 |
1 |
28.8.1878 |
23.12.1972 |
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Gerald Logan |
1908 |
1 |
29.12.1879 |
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Alan Noble |
1908 |
1 |
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Edgar Page |
1908 |
1 |
31.12.1884 |
12.5.1956 |
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Reggie Pridmore |
1908 |
1 |
29.4.1886 |
13.3.1918 |
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Percy Rees |
1908 |
1 |
27.9.1883 |
12.6.1970 |
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John Robinson |
1908 |
1 |
6.8.1885 |
23.8.1916 |
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Stanley Shoveller |
1908 |
2 |
2.9.1881 |
24.2.1959 |
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Harvey Wood |
1908 |
1 |
10.4.1885 |
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Charles Atkin |
1920 |
1 |
26.2.1889 |
9.5.1958 |
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M |
John Bennett |
1920 |
1 |
11.8.1885 |
27.5.1973 |
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M |
Harold Cassels |
1920 |
1 |
4.11.1898 |
23.1.1975 |
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M |
Harold Cooke |
1920 |
1 |
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Eric Crockford |
1920 |
1 |
13.10.1888 |
17.1.1958 |
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Rex Crummack |
1920 |
1 |
16.2.1887 |
25.10.1966 |
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Harry Haslam |
1920 |
1 |
7.2.1883 |
7.2.1955 |
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Arthur Leighton |
1920 |
1 |
6.3.1889 |
15.6.1939 |
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M |
Sholto Marcon |
1920 |
1 |
31.3.1890 |
17.11.1959 |
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Jack McBryan |
1920 |
1 |
22.7.1892 |
14.7.1983 |
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George McGrath |
1920 |
1 |
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Faulder Smith |
1920 |
1 |
14.11.1886 |
3.3.1937 |
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Cyril Wilkinson |
1920 |
1 |
4.10.1884 |
16.12.1970 |
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Alexander Archer |
1936 |
1 |
1.5.1910 |
29.7.1997 |
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Jimmy Borland |
1936 |
1 |
25.3.1911 |
1938 |
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Edgar Brenchley |
1936 |
1 |
10.2.1912 |
3.1975 |
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James Chappell |
1936 |
1 |
25.3.1914 |
3.4.1976 |
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John Coward |
1936 |
1 |
28.10.1910 |
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Gordon Dailley |
1936 |
1 |
24.7.1911 |
3.5.1989 |
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Gerry Davey |
1936 |
1 |
5.9.1914 |
12.2.1977 |
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Carl Erhardt |
1936 |
1 |
15.2.1897 |
3.5.1988 |
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James Foster |
1936 |
1 |
13.9.1905 |
4.1.1969 |
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John Kilpatrick |
1936 |
1 |
7.7.1917 |
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Archie Stinchcombe |
1936 |
1 |
17.11.1912 |
3.11.1994 |
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M |
Bob Wyman |
1936 |
1 |
27.4.1909 |
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John Field-Richard |
1908 |
2 |
10.5.1878 |
18.4.1959 |
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M |
Bernard Redwood |
1908 |
2 |
21.11.1874 |
28.9.1911 |
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M |
Tom Thornycroft |
1908 |
2 |
22.11.1881 |
6.6.1955 |
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*John Beresford |
1900 |
1 |
10.6.1847 |
8.5.1925 |
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*Denis Daly |
1900 |
1 |
5.9.1862 |
16.4.1942 |
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M |
Alfred Rawlinson |
1900 |
1 |
17.1.1867 |
1.6.1934 |
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M |
George Miller |
1908 |
1 |
6.12.1867 |
21.2.1935 |
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Charles Miller |
1908 |
1 |
23.10.1868 |
22.12.1951 |
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Patteson Nickalls |
1908 |
1 |
23.1.1876 |
10.9.1946 |
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Herbert Wilson |
1908 |
1 |
14.2.1875 |
11.4.1917 |
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*Frederick Barrett |
1920 |
1 |
20.6.1875 |
7.11.1949 |
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M |
Vivian Lockett |
1920 |
1 |
18.7.1880 |
30.5.1962 |
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Tim Melvill |
1920 |
1 |
13.2.1877 |
12.12.1951 |
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