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New Zealand At The 1934 British Empire Games
New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games was represented by a small team of 12 competitors and one official. Team selection for the Games in London, England, was the responsibility of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. New Zealand's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was Jack Lovelock. New Zealand has competed in every games, starting with the previous (and first) British Empire Games in 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario. Medal tables Competitors The following table lists the number of New Zealand competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline. Athletics Track Field Cycling Lawn bowls Swimming Officials * Team manager – Arthur Porritt See also *New Zealand Olympic Committee * New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games * New Zealand at the 1932 Summer Olympics * New Zealand at the 1936 Summer Olympics External linksNZOC website on the 1934 games [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Olympic Committee
The New Zealand Olympic Committee (before 1994, The ''New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association'') is both the National Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Association in New Zealand responsible for selecting athletes to represent New Zealand in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. While a founder member of the International Olympic Committee, New Zealand did not send its own team to compete until the Games of the VI Olympiad (Antwerp 1920), though at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics New Zealand and Australia competed as "Australasia". New Zealand has sent a team to every Summer Olympic Games since 1920, though only a token team of four went to the 1980 Summer Olympics at Moscow due to the boycott. New Zealand first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1952, but did not compete in the 1956 or 1964 Winter Olympics. New Zealand has sent a team to every Commonwealth Games since the first in 1930, which was held in Canada and then ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Brainsby
Harold Kingsford Brainsby (5 December 1910 – 3 April 1975) was a New Zealand field athlete who won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. Early life and family Born in Handsworth on the outskirts of Birmingham, England, in 1910, Brainsby was the son of Edith Anna (née Kingsford) and Arthur Todd Brainsby, a Baptist minister. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1911. Educated at Whangarei High School, Brainsby went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1934, and a Bachelor of Laws and Diploma of Journalism in 1938. On 23 March 1940, Brainsby married Mary Priscilla Wrightson at St Aidan's Church in the Auckland suburb of Remuera, They adopted a daughter in 1957 and divorced in 1960. Harold remarried Diana Kelly and the couple had one son. Athletics Brainsby competed for New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games, where he won the bronze medal in the triple jump, with a distance of . He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Smith (swimmer)
Leonard Smith (29 July 1906 – 14 March 1998) was a New Zealand swimmer who represented his country at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. Born in Whanganui in 1906, Smith was a farmer and a member of the Feilding Amateur Swimming Club. He won nine New Zealand national breaststroke titles: the 100 yards in 1939; and the 220 yards every year from 1929 to 1936. His best winning time for the 220 yards breaststroke was 3:01.4, which he swam in breaking his own New Zealand record at the 1935 national championships at the Tepid Baths in Auckland. He also held the national 100 yards breaststroke record, with a time of 1:15.6 clocked when he won the New Zealand title for that distance in 1939. At the 1934 British Empire Games, Smith competed in the men's 200 yards breaststroke. He finished third in his heat and did not progress. However, he reached the final of the 3 x 100 yards medley relay with teammates Noel Crump and Wiremu Whareaitu Wiremu "Bill" Whareaitu (15 August 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Crump
Spenceley Noel Stanley Crump (18 December 1916 – 25 October 1995) was a New Zealand freestyle swimmer who represented his country at the 1934 British Empire Games, where he won a bronze medal, and at the 1938 British Empire Games. Early life and family Born in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby on 18 December 1916, Crump was the son of William Arthur Harry Crump and Ellen Spenceley Crump (née Walker). He was educated at Takapuna Grammar School, where he was the senior swimming champion in 1933, and was a member of the North Shore Amateur Swimming and Lifesaving Club. In July 1943, Crump married Eileen Hilda Wallace, a theatre sister at Rotorua Public Hospital, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge. Swimming At the 1934 New Zealand national swimming championships, Crump won both the 100 yards and 220 yards men's freestyle titles. He was then selected to represent New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, where he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 yard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Carter (bowls)
George Henry Carter (1883 – 1 May 1935) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Professionally, he was an accountant and a director of the McKenzies retail chain. Early life, family, and business activities Carter was born in Australia in about 1883. In 1906, he married Charlotte Ella McKenzie, who, with her brother John, had founded a fancy goods store in Melbourne the previous year. Carter was John McKenzie's accountant, and the store would eventually grow to become the J.R. McKenzie retail chain in New Zealand, with Carter as one of its directors. George and Ella Carter went on two have two children. The Carters moved to New Zealand not long after John McKenzie relocated his business across the Tasman, living first in Wellington. Carter retired from day-to-day involvement with J.R. McKenzie Ltd in about 1928, while remaining a director of the company, and moved to Auckland. Lawn bowls A member of the Carlton Bowlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pollard (bowls)
George Gladstone Pollard (30 December 1874 – 10 September 1963) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Early life and family Born in Auckland on 30 December 1874, Pollard was the son of Sarah and Alfred Pollard. On 26 January 1898, he married Helen Oliver Knox at the Wesleyan church in Grafton Road, Auckland. Builder Pollard was a builder, and served on the committee of the Auckland Master Builders' Association. He was responsible for the construction in 1923–24 of the (former) W.A. Thompson and Company building, designed by architects Holman, Moses and Watkin, at 307–319 Queen Street, Auckland, that was given historic place category 2 status by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1987. Lawn bowls A member of the Carlton Bowling Club in Auckland, Pollard was a member of the men's four—alongside Billy Dillicar, Harold Grocott and George Carter (skip)—that represented New Zealand at the 1934 British Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Dillicar
William Wood Dillicar (21 June 1881 – 28 July 1962) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Early life and family Born on 21 June 1881, Dillicar was the son of Richard and Mary Ann Dillicar who had settled in Hamilton the previous year. On 24 March 1913, he married Ida May Francis at the Congregational Church, Palmerston North, but they divorced in 1925. Dillicar went on to marry Marjorie Evelyn Arey, the daughter of bookseller William Ewbank Arey and sister-in-law of Roderick Braithwaite, in Auckland on 20 June 1935. Dillicar's sister, Alice, was the mother of Harold Turbott. Lawn bowls A member of the Whitiora Bowling Club, Dillicar was selected to represent New Zealand in the men's fours at the 1934 British Empire Games in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Grocott
Harold Grocott (9 March 1876 – 11 February 1960) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Early life and family Born in England, in the London district of St Pancras, on 9 March 1876, Grocott was the son of Joseph Henry Grocott and Hannah Dryden. He was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone on 4 June 1876. In 1877, the family emigrated to New Zealand, where Joseph and Hannah were married the same year. Harold's younger brother, Horace, was born in Napier in 1880, and soon after, they moved to Dunedin. On 4 March 1901, Harold Grocott married Elizabeth Bazley at First Church, Dunedin. The couple went on to have one son—Eric Harold Grocott, who was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service in the 1979 New Year Honours—and one daughter. Professional career By 1902, Grocott was in charge of Wilkinson and Sons' branch chemist shop in George Street, Dunedin, and was living above th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Keys
Leonard John Keys (3 August 1880 – 1958) was a New Zealand bowls, lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games, 1934 British Empire Games. However, he is more notable as a businessman and one of the pioneers of passenger bus services in Auckland. Early life and family Born in Patea on 3 August 1880, Keys was the son of Harriet Jane Keys (née Watson) and John Edward Keys. He grew up in the Thames, New Zealand, Thames area, before serving an apprenticeship as a grocer in Auckland. In 1903, he married Sarah Margery McMaster, and the couple went on to have three children. Lawn bowls Keys was a member of the Auckland Bowling Club team that won the men's fours title at the 1932 national lawn bowls championships, held in Christchurch. He went on to represent New Zealand in the men's singles at the Lawn Bowls at the 1934 British Empire Games, 1934 British Empire Games in London. He lost all nine of his round-robin matches, finishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Clayton (cyclist)
Ted Clayton (6 January 1911 – 20 December 1994) was a South African cyclist. He competed in the three events 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 External links * 1911 births 1994 deaths South African male cyclists Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for South Africa Cyclists at the 1934 British Empire Games Olympic cyclists for South Africa Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics People from Paddington Sportspeople from the City of Westminster Cyclists from Greater London English emigrants to South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling 20th-century South African people Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games {{SouthAfrica-cycling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
