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England At The 1938 British Empire Games
England competed at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 5 February to 12 February 1938. The athletes that competed are listed below. Athletes Athletics Boxing Cycling Diving Lawn bowls Rowing Swimming Wrestling References {{Commonwealth Games medallists England at the Commonwealth Games, 1938 Nations at the 1938 British Empire Games 1938 in English sport, British Empire Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Games England
Commonwealth Games England (CGE) is the national Commonwealth Games Association for England. The council is responsible for supporting and managing the participation of England at the Commonwealth Games, Team England at the Commonwealth Games'. Predecessor The Commonwealth Games Council for England (CGCE) was originally responsible for 'Team England' and oversaw each team between the 1930 British Empire Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and the England teams at the Commonwealth Youth Games. Membership of the Games Council consisted of representatives from 26 different sports on the Commonwealth Games#List of Commonwealth sports, Commonwealth Games' Sports Programme, supported by a small salaried team.CGCE's President was gold medallist Sir Christopher Chataway, the first ever winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award and a teammate of Sir Roger Bannister. Present organisation Following a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Pack
Henry Edward Pack (born 30 October 1912, date of death unknown) was an English athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games The 1938 British Empire Games was the third British Empire Games, the event that evolved to become the Commonwealth Games. Held in Sydney, Australia from 5–12 February 1938, they were timed to coincide with Sydney's sesqui-centenary (150 ye .... At the 1938 Empire Games he was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 4×440 yards event. In the 440 yards competition he was eliminated in the heats. External linksProfileat ''TOPS in athletics'' 1912 births Year of death missing English male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games Place of birth missing {{England-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Dennis
Maurice Dennis (1913–1962) was an amateur and professional boxer from Camden Town, England. He boxed between 1938 and 1940 an had 14 professional contests. Biography Dennis won the 1937 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, when boxing out of the Northampton Polytechnic ABC. He was a silver medalist in boxing at the 1938 British Empire Games. Denis Reardon, the first boxing gold medalist from Wales at the British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) defeated Maurice Dennis in the middleweight final at the 1938 Sydney games. He was a totalisator A tote board (or totalisator/totalizator) is a numeric or alphanumeric display used to convey information, typically at a race track (to display the odds or payoffs for each horse) or at a telethon (to display the total amount donated to the chari ... mechanic by trade. References English male boxers 1913 births 1962 deaths People from Camden Town Sportspeople from the London Borough of Camden Boxer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butler (boxer)
William Harry Butler (born 1917) was a boxer who competed for England. Boxing career Butler represented England at the 1938 British Empire Games, England and won a gold medal in the 54 kg division at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Personal life He was an electrician by trade and lived in Stratford Street, Upper Stoke, Coventry during 1938. References 1917 births English male boxers Boxers at the 1938 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Possibly living people Bantamweight boxers Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games {{England-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Webster (athlete)
Brigadier Frederick Richard Webster (31 December 1914 – 28 September 2009) was a British Army officer and Olympic pole vaulter. Sports career Educated at Bedford School and Christ's College, Cambridge, Webster competed in both the 1936 Olympics and the 1948 Olympics. He held the British pole vaulting record between 1936 and 1950. He also competed for England in the pole vault at the 1934 British Empire Games in London and four years later he competed for England at the 1938 British Empire Games in the pole vault again. He was the 1936 and 1939 AAA champion. Personal life Webster served as an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, was evacuated from Dunkirk, and fought in North Africa and Italy. After the war, he worked as a military instructor in Egypt, retiring from the army with the rank of brigadier in 1967. Following his retirement, he worked as a farmer in South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Weatherill
Lawrence Hotham Weatherill (1905-1984) was a male athlete who competed for England. Athletics career He competed for England in the marathon at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. Four years later he competed for England at the 1938 British Empire Games England competed at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 5 February to 12 February 1938. The athletes that competed are listed below. Athletes Athletics Boxing Cycling Diving Lawn bowls Rowing ... in the 3 miles and 6 miles. References 1905 births 1984 deaths English male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games competitors for England Sportspeople from Norwich {{UK-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ward (athlete)
Peter Hans Dudley Ward (7 February 1913 – 13 January 2009) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Career He was born in Berlin, German Empire to an English father and German mother. He studied Economics at the University of Cambridge and won a blue for athletics and a half-blue for cross-country. He was selected for the 1936 Olympics after setting a new 5,000 metres games record at the 1935 International Universities Games in Budapest and a new 3 miles record at the 1936 AAA championship. In 1936 he finished eleventh the 1500 metres event, narrowly beating out fellow English runner Mike O'Donnell. At the 1938 British Empire Games he won the silver medal in the 3 miles competition. He also participated in the 6 miles contest but did not finish the race. Personal life He was a stockbroker by trade before serving in the Second World War as a major in the Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Wallace
Lawrence Mervyn Wallace (9 March 1917 – 1978) was an English amateur athlete who competed as a sprinter in the 1938 British Empire Games and played football for Southampton. Early life Wallace was born in Sandown on the Isle of Wight and studied at Southampton's University College. Athletic career At the 1938 Empire Games, he was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 4×110 yards event. In the 100 yards competition as well as in the 220 yards contest he was eliminated in the heats. Football career Wallace was selected to represent the Universities Athletic Union against an Amateur XI in a football match played at The Dell in February 1939. Wallace's abilities on the left-wing brought him to the attention of the Saints' management, who immediately signed him as an amateur. He made his first-team debut at Maine Road against Manchester City on 18 March 1939, in place of Harry Osman, who had been sold to Millwall Millwall is a distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Tyler-Odam
Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler, MBE (née Odam; 14 March 1920 – 25 September 2014) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. She was born in Stockwell, London. Odam competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany where she won the silver medal behind Ibolya Csák. She jumped the highest and was the first to clear 1.60 meters, and would have won under modern countback rules, but under the 1936 rulebook a jump-off was called for, and Csák won the gold. In 1939 she broke the world record in the high jump with 1.66m, but Germany's Dora Ratjen allegedly broke her record quickly. Odam was suspicious of Ratjen and, according to Odam, "They wrote to me telling me I didn't hold the record, so I wrote to them saying, 'She's not a woman, she's a man'. They did some research and found 'her' serving as a waiter called Hermann Ratjen. So I got my world record back." Odam's world record was formally recognized by the sport's world govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Tiffen
Kathleen Margaret Tiffen (15 July 1912 – May 1986) was a British hurdler. She competed in the women's 80 metres hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References 1912 births 1986 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games British female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Place of birth missing {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Stokes
Kathleen Susan "Kate" Stokes (later Earwaker; 14 September 1916 – 2 February 2003) was an English athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games The 1938 British Empire Games was the third British Empire Games, the event that evolved to become the Commonwealth Games. Held in Sydney, Australia from 5–12 February 1938, they were timed to coincide with Sydney's sesqui-centenary (150 ye .... At the 1938 Empire Games she was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards event and the bronze medal in the 110-220-110 yards competition. In the 100 yards contest as well as in the 220 yards event she was eliminated in the semi-finals. References External linksProfileat ''TOPS in athletics'' 1916 births 2003 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Saunders
Dorothy Sylvia Saunders (later Jackson; 22 January 1915 – 12 November 2013) was an English track and field athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games. Saunders was born in Brentford, Middlesex in January 1915. At the 1938 Empire Games she was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards event and the bronze medal in the 110-220-110 yards competition. In the 100 yards contest as well as in the 220 yards event she was eliminated in the semi-finals. She also competed in the 1938 European Championships in Athletics held in Vienna and finished fourth in the 100 metre contest and fifth in the 200 metre event. In April 1942, she married Harold F. Jackson in Brentford. Saunders died in Devon in November 2013 at the age of 98. References External links Profileat ''TOPS in athletics'' Profileat ''trackfield.brinkster.net'' British national athletics records as of 1950(Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |