British athletes at the London 1948 Olympics* |
 
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Athletes |
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 Athletics | |||||
| 100 m M | | GBR | Kenneth Jones | ||
| Alistair McCorquodale | |||||
| Emmanuel McDonald Bailey | |||||
| 200 m M | | GBR | Paul Valle | ||
| John Fairgrieve | |||||
| Alistair McCorquodale | |||||
| 400 m M | | GBR | Leslie Lewis | ||
| Derek Pugh | |||||
| William Roberts | |||||
| 800 m M | | GBR | Thomas White | ||
| Harry Tarraway | |||||
| Harold Parlett | |||||
| 1500 m M | | GBR | Richard Morris | ||
| Douglas Wilson | |||||
| William Nankeville | |||||
| 5000 m M | | GBR | Alec Olney | ||
| William Lucas | |||||
| Jack Braughton | |||||
| 10000 m M | | GBR | Steve McCooke | ||
| James Peters | |||||
| Stanley Cox | |||||
| Marathon M | | GBR | John Holden | ||
| Stanley Jones | |||||
| Thomas Richards | |||||
| 110 m hurdles M | | GBR | Joseph Birrell | ||
| Donald Finlay | |||||
| Ray Barkway | |||||
| 400 m hurdles M | | GBR | Harold Whittle | ||
| Ronald Unsworth | |||||
| Michael Pope | |||||
| 3000 m steeplechase M | | GBR | Rene Howell | ||
| Geoffrey Tudor | |||||
| Peter Curry | |||||
| 4x100 m M | | GBR | John Gregory | ||
| Alistair McCorquodale | |||||
| Kenneth Jones | |||||
| John Archer | |||||
| 4x400 m M | | GBR | Leslie Lewis | ||
| Derek Pugh | |||||
| William Roberts | |||||
| Martin Pike | |||||
| 10 km walk M | | GBR | Richard West | ||
| Harold Churcher | |||||
| Charles Morris | |||||
| 50 km walk M | | GBR | Harold Martineau | ||
| Terence Lloyd-Johnson | |||||
| George Whitlock | |||||
| High jump M | | GBR | Alan Paterson | ||
| Ronald Pavitt | |||||
| Adegboyega Adedoyin | |||||
| Pole vault M | | GBR | Frederick Webster | ||
| Long jump M | | GBR | Adegboyega Adedoyin | ||
| Harold Whittle | |||||
| Harry Askew | |||||
| Triple jump M | | GBR | Robert Hawkey | ||
| Sidney Cross | |||||
| Allan Lindsay | |||||
| Shot put M | | GBR | John Giles | ||
| Harold Moody | |||||
| Discus throw M | | GBR | Laurence Reavell-Carter | ||
| Ernest John Brewer | |||||
| James Nesbitt | |||||
| Hammer throw M | | GBR | Ewan Douglas | ||
| Duncan Clark | |||||
| Norman Drake | |||||
| Javelin throw M | | GBR | Morville Chote | ||
| Malcolm Dalrymple | |||||
| 100 m W | | GBR | Dorothy Manley | ||
| Winnie Jordan | |||||
| Doris Batter | |||||
| 200 m W | | GBR | Sylvia Cheeseman | ||
| Margaret Walker | |||||
| Audrey Williamson | |||||
| 80 m hurdles W | | GBR | Bertha Crowter | ||
| Joan Upton | |||||
| Maureen Gardner | |||||
| 4x100 m W | | GBR | Dorothy Manley | ||
| Muriel Pletts | |||||
| Margaret Walker | |||||
| Maureen Gardner | |||||
| High jump W | | GBR | Dora Gardner | ||
| Bertha Crowther | |||||
| Dorothy Tyler | |||||
| Long jump W | | GBR | Joan Shepherd | ||
| Lorna Lee | |||||
| Margaret Erskine | |||||
| Shot put W | | GBR | Bevis Reid | ||
| Margaret Birthwistle | |||||
| Elspeth Whyte | |||||
| Discus throw W | | GBR | Elspeth Whyte | ||
| Margaret Birtwistle | |||||
| Bevis Reid | |||||
| Javelin throw W | | GBR | Marian Long | ||
| Gladys Clarke | |||||
 Boxing | |||||
| Flyweight M | | GBR | Henry Carpenter | ||
| Bantamweight M | | GBR | Tommy Proffitt | ||
| Featherweight M | | GBR | Peter Brander | ||
| Lightweight M | | GBR | Ron Cooper | ||
| Welterweight M | | GBR | Max Shacklady | ||
| Middleweight M | | GBR | John Wright | ||
| Light-heavyweight M | | GBR | Donald Scott | ||
| Heavyweight M | | GBR | Jack Gardner | ||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Canoe & Kayak | |||||
| K1 500 m W | | GBR | Joyce Richards | ||
| K1 1000 m M | | GBR | Norman Dobson | ||
| K2 1000 m M | | GBR | John Simmons | ||
| Jack Henderson | |||||
| C1 1000 m M | | GBR | Henry Maidment | ||
| C2 1000 m M | | GBR | Hugh Van Zwanenberg | ||
| John Symons | |||||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Cycling | |||||
| Road race M | | GBR | Ernie Clements | ||
| Ian Scott | |||||
| Gordon Thomas | |||||
| Robert Maitland | |||||
| Road race team M | | GBR | Gordon Thomas | ||
| Ian Scott | |||||
| Robert Maitland | |||||
| Team pursuit M | | GBR | Thomas Godwin | ||
| Wilfred Waters | |||||
| Alan Geldard | |||||
| David Ricketts | |||||
| 1000 m time trial M | | GBR | Thomas Godwin | ||
| Sprint M | | GBR | Reginald Harris | ||
| Tandem M | | GBR | Alan Bannister | ||
| Reginald Harris | |||||
 Diving | |||||
| Springboard M | | GBR | Peter Heatly | ||
| Peter John Elliott | |||||
| Charles Johnson | |||||
| Springboard W | | GBR | Esme Harris | ||
| Edna Child | |||||
| Kathleen Cuthbert | |||||
| Platform M | | GBR | Peter Heatly | ||
| Gordon Ward | |||||
| Louis Marchant | |||||
| Platform W | | GBR | Maire Hider | ||
| Denise Newman | |||||
| Lettice Bisbrown | |||||
 Equestrian | |||||
| Eventing individual | | GBR | Douglas Stewart | ||
| Lyndon Bolton | |||||
| Peter Borwick | |||||
| Eventing team | | GBR | Lyndon Bolton | ||
| Douglas Stewart | |||||
| Peter Borwick | |||||
| Jumping individual | | GBR | Arthur Carr | ||
| Henry Nicoll | |||||
| Henry Llewellyn | |||||
| Jumping team | | GBR | Henry Nicoll | ||
| Arthur Carr | |||||
| Henry Llewelly | |||||
 Fencing | |||||
| Foil individual W | | GBR | Betty Arbuthnott | ||
| Mary Glen-Haig | |||||
| Gytte Minton | |||||
| Foil individual M | | GBR | John Emrys Lloyd | ||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Gymnastics | |||||
| Team W | | GBR | Dorothy Smith | ||
| Dorothy Hey | |||||
| Patricia Hirst | |||||
| Irene Hirst | |||||
| Audrey Rennard | |||||
| Patricia Evans | |||||
| Joan Airey | |||||
| Cissy Davies | |||||
| Team M | | GBR | Frank Turner | ||
| Glyn Hopkins | |||||
| Percy May | |||||
| George Weedon | |||||
| Ken Buffin | |||||
| Ivor Vice | |||||
| Jack Flaherty | |||||
| Alec Wales | |||||
 Hockey | |||||
| Hockey M | | GBR | Norman Borrett | ||
| Neil White | |||||
| Robin Lindsay | |||||
| Michael Walford | |||||
| William Griffiths | |||||
| George Sime | |||||
| Robert Adlard | |||||
| John Peake | |||||
| Frank Reynolds | |||||
| Michael Lindsay | |||||
| David Brodie | |||||
| Ronald Davies | |||||
 Modern Pentathlon | |||||
| Individual M | | GBR | Andy Martin | ||
| Jack Lumsden | |||||
| Geoffrey Brooke | |||||
 Rowing | |||||
| Single sculls M | | GBR | Anthony Rowe | ||
| Double sculls M | | GBR | Bertie Bushnell | ||
| Richard Burnell | |||||
| Pair without coxswain M | | GBR | John Wilson | ||
| William Laurie | |||||
| Eight with coxswain M | | GBR | Charles Brian Lloyd | ||
| Ernest Paul Bircher | |||||
| Michael Lepage | |||||
| Jack Dearlove | |||||
| David Meyrick | |||||
| Paul Massy | |||||
| Guy Richardson | |||||
| Christopher Barton | |||||
| Alfred Mellows | |||||
 Sailing | |||||
| Swallow | | GBR | David Bond | ||
| Stewart Morris | |||||
| Dragon | | GBR | James Wallace | ||
| William Strain | |||||
| George Brown | |||||
| Star | | GBR | Sloan Farrington | ||
| Durward Knowles | |||||
| Finn | | GBR | Arthur McDonald | ||
| 6 m | | GBR | Henry Hardie | ||
| James Howden Hume | |||||
| Harry Hunter | |||||
| Brian Hardie | |||||
| James Douglas Hume | |||||
 Shooting | |||||
| Rifle prone M | | GBR | Victor Gilbert | ||
| George Jones | |||||
| John Chandler | |||||
| Free rifle M | | GBR | John Knott | ||
| Bob Maslen-Jones | |||||
| Jocelyn Barlow | |||||
| Free pistol M | | GBR | Peter Marchant | ||
| John Gallie | |||||
| Guy Granet | |||||
| Rapid fire pistol M | | GBR | Charles Willott | ||
| Henry Swire | |||||
| Henry Steele | |||||
 Swimming | |||||
| 100 m freestyle W | | GBR | Margaret Wellington | ||
| Lillian Preece | |||||
| Patricia Nielsen | |||||
| 100 m freestyle M | | GBR | Trevor Harrop | ||
| Patrick Kendall | |||||
| Ronald Stedman | |||||
| 400 m freestyle W | | GBR | Patricia Nielsen | ||
| Catherine Gibson | |||||
| Margaret Wellington | |||||
| 400 m freestyle M | | GBR | Frank Botham | ||
| Jack Hale | |||||
| Thomas Holt | |||||
| 1500 m freestyle M | | GBR | Donald Bland | ||
| Jack Hale | |||||
| John Wardrop | |||||
| 100 m backstroke W | | GBR | Helen Yate | ||
| Catherine Gibson | |||||
| Vera Ellery | |||||
| 100 m backstroke M | | GBR | Albert Kinnear | ||
| William John Brockway | |||||
| Thomas Summers | |||||
| 200 m breaststroke W | | GBR | Jean Caplin | ||
| Elizabeth Church | |||||
| Helen Gordon | |||||
| 200 m breaststroke M | | GBR | Royston Romain | ||
| John Goldup Davies | |||||
| John Service | |||||
| 4x100 m freestyle W | | GBR | Lillian Preece | ||
| Catherine Gibson | |||||
| Margaret Wellington | |||||
| Patricia Nielsen | |||||
| 4x200 m freestyle M | | GBR | John Holt | ||
| Norman Wainwright | |||||
| Frank Botham | |||||
| Jack Hale | |||||
 Weightlifting | |||||
| Bantamweight M | | GBR | Abraham Greenhalgh | ||
| Julian Creus | |||||
| Featherweight M | | GBR | Sidney Kemble | ||
| Denis Hallett | |||||
| Lightweight M | | GBR | William Eland | ||
| James Halliday | |||||
| Middleweight M | | GBR | Ernest Peppiatt | ||
| George William Watson | |||||
| Light-heavyweight M | | GBR | Ernest Roe | ||
| Heavyweight M | | GBR | Alfred Knight | ||
 Wrestling | |||||
| Freestyle flyweight M | | GBR | Harry Parker | ||
| Freestyle bantamweight M | | GBR | Raymond Cazaux | ||
| Freestyle featherweight M | | GBR | Arnold Parsons | ||
| Freestyle lightweight M | | GBR | Peter Luck | ||
| Freestyle welterweight M | | GBR | Donald Irvine | ||
| Freestyle middleweight M | | GBR | Edwin Bowey | ||
| Freestyle light-heavyweight M | | GBR | John Sullivan | ||
| Freestyle heavyweight M | | GBR | Fred Oberlander | ||
| Greco-Roman flyweight M | | GBR | Walter McGuffie | ||
| Greco-Roman bantamweight M | | GBR | Kenneth Irvine | ||
| Greco-Roman featherweight M | | GBR | James Mortimer | ||
| Greco-Roman lightweight M | | GBR | Raymond Myland | ||
| Greco-Roman welterweight M | | GBR | James Wilson | ||
| Greco-Roman middleweight M | | GBR | Stanley Bissell | ||
| Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M | | GBR | Kenneth Richmond | ||
| Greco-Roman heavyweight M | | GBR | Leonard Pidduck | ||
| * The list of British athletes in the 1948 Olympic Games is not yet complete | |||||
| This information about British athletes in the Olympic Summer Games in London 1948 is based on the official olympic reports and Olympian Database | |||||
