Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics
Flag of the United Kingdom
IOC code	GBR
NOC	British Olympic Association
in Chamonix
Competitors	44 (41 men, 3 women) in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 4
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. Based on medal count, this was Great Britain's best ever performance at a Winter Olympic Games until the 2014 games were held in Sochi in Russia. On 3 February Great Britain won two medals on one day. This was not to be bettered until the 2018 games when 3 medals were won on one day.

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	William Jackson Thomas Murray Robin Welsh Laurence Jackson	Curling	Men's event
Silver	Ralph Broome Thomas Arnold Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher	Bobsleigh	Four/five-man
Bronze	Ethel Muckelt	Figure skating	Women's singles
Bronze	Great Britain men's national ice hockey team Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Ross Cuthbert Lorne Carr-Harris Blane Sexton Edward Pitblado Hamilton Jukes William Anderson Geoffrey Holmes Guy Clarkson	Ice hockey	Men's competition

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GBR-1	Ralph Broome Thomas Arnold Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher	Four/five-man	1:28.73	2	1:28.67	2	1:25.76	2	1:25.67	1	5:48.83
GBR-2	William Horton Archibald Crabbe Gerard Fairlie George Pim	Four/five-man	1:42.33	5	1:41.28	5	1:38.58	5	1:38.52	5	6:40.71	5

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Team	GP	W	L	PF	PA	PTS
Great Britain	2	2	0	84	11	4
Sweden	2	1	1	25	48	2
France	2	0	2	14	64	0

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Great Britain	38-7	Sweden (I)
Great Britain	46-4	France

Pos.	Player
Skip	Willie Jackson
	Robin Welsh
	Thomas Murray
	Laurence Jackson

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Points	Places	Final rank
Herbert Clarke	Men's singles	10	11	219.75	70	10
Jack Page		6	5	295.36	36	5

Women

Athlete	Event	CF	FS	Points	Places	Final rank
Kathleen Shaw	Women's singles	8	6	221.00	46	7
Ethel Muckelt		3	7	250.07	26

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Score	Final rank
Mildred Richardson Tyke Richardson	57	7.68	8
Ethel Muckelt Jack Page	30.5	9.93	4

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Group B

The top two teams (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
United States	3	3	0	52	0
Great Britain	3	2	1	34	16
France	3	1	2	9	42
Belgium	3	0	3	8	45

29 Jan	France	2:15 (1:5,1:3,0:7)	Great Britain
30 Jan	Great Britain	19:3 (8:1,6:1,5:1)	Belgium
31 Jan	United States	11:0 (6:0,2:0,3:0)	Great Britain

Medal round

Results from the group round (Canada-Sweden and United States-Great Britain) carried forward to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Canada	3	3	0	47	3
United States	3	2	1	32	6
Great Britain	3	1	2	6	33
Sweden	3	0	3	3	46

1 Feb	Canada	19:2 (6:2,6:0,7:0)	Great Britain
2 Feb	Great Britain	4:3 (0:1,2:2,2:0)	Sweden

Bronze:

Great Britain  (GBR) William Anderson Lorne Carr-Harris Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Guy Clarkson Ross Cuthbert Geoffrey Holmes Hamilton Jukes Edward Pitblado Blane Sexton

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Fred Dix	56.4	23
	Tom Sutton	1:00.8	25
	Cyril Horn	1:04.4	27
5000 m	Albert Tebbit	11:01.0	20

All-round
Distances: 500m; 5000m; 1500m & 10,000m.

Athlete	Until distance 1			Until distance 2			Until distance 3			Total
	Points	Score	rank	Points	Score	rank	Points	Score	rank	Points	Score	rank
Fred Dix	18.5	56.40	18	DNF
Tom Sutton	20	60.80	20	DNF
Cyril Horn	22	64.40	22	DNF

References

• M. Avé, Comité Olympique Français (ed.). Les Jeux de la VIII^e Olympiade Paris 1924 - Rapport Officiel (PDF) (in French). Paris: Librairie de France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 10 June 2008.
• Olympic Winter Games 1924, full results by sports-reference.com