Great Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Great Britain at the Olympic Games
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At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix
Competitors	44 (41 men, 3 women) in 6 sports
Medals Rank: 6	Gold 1	Silver 1	Bronze 2	Total 4
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and 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.

Medalists

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   Edward Pitblado Eric Carruthers   Hamilton Jukes Ross Cuthbert   William Anderson Lorne Carr-Harris   Geoffrey Holmes Blane Sexton   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	Cyril Horn	1:04.4	27
	Tom Sutton	1:00.8	25
	Fred Dix	56.4	23
5000 m	Albert Tebbit	11:01.0	20

All-round
Distances: 500m; 1000m; 5000m & 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
Cyril Horn	21	64.40	21	DNF
Tom Sutton	19	60.80	19	DNF
Fred Dix	17.5	56.40	17	DNF

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1924, full results by sports-reference.com