Australia at the 1934 British Empire Games

Australia at the 1934 British Empire Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their second of 2 Commonwealth Games meets.

Australia at the 1934 Commonwealth Games
CGF code	AUS
CGA	Australian Commonwealth Games Association
Website	commonwealthgames.org.au
in London, England
Competitors	17 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Opening: Noel Ryan[1] Closing:
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 8 Silver 4 Bronze 2 Total 14
Officials	2
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018

Medallists

Medal Name Sport Event  Gold Jack Metcalfe Athletics Men's Hop, Step, Jump  Gold Leonard Cook Boxing Lightweight  Gold Dunc Gray Cycling Men's Time Trial  Gold Noel Ryan Swimming Men's 440 yd Freestyle  Gold Noel Ryan Swimming 1,500 yd Freestyle  Gold Clare Dennis Swimming Women's 200 yd Breaststroke  Gold Dick Garrard Wrestling Men's Lightweight  Gold John Knight Wrestling Men's Heavyweight  Silver Charles Reilly Athletics Men's 440 yards Hurdles  Silver Horace Pethybridge Cycling Men's 1,000 yards Sprint  Silver Lesley Thompson Diving Women's Springboard  Silver Lesley Thompson Diving Women's Platform  Bronze Fred Woodhouse Athletics Men's Pole Vault  Bronze Jack Metcalfe Athletics Men's Broad Jump 1934 Australian Team & Results Athletics 100 yards Howard Spencer Yates - 6th (heat 10.1, semi 10.1) Jack C Horsfall - 3rd (heat) Noel Dempsey - 4th (heat) 220 yards Jack C Horsfall -3rd (heat 6) Noel Dempsey - 4th, 22.9 (semi) Howard Spencer Yates - 5th, 22.4 (semi) 440 yards H Wilton Lander - 3rd (heat) 880 yards H Wilton Lander - 4th (heat) 440 yards Hurdles Charles P Reilly - Silver, 55.5 sec Hop, Step, Jump John Patrick 'Jack' Metcalfe - Gold, 51 ft 31/2 in (GR) Broad Jump John Patrick 'Jack' Metcalfe - Silver, 22 ft 9 in High Jump John Patrick 'Jack' Metcalfe - 4th, 6 ft 2 in Pole Vault Frederick Irvine Woodhouse - Bronze, 12 ft 3 in 4x110 yards Relay Noel Dempsey - 4x100 yards Relay - 4th Jack C Horsfall - 4x110 yards Relay - 4th H Wilton Lander - 4x110 yards Relay - 4th Howard Spencer Yates - 4x110 yards Relay - 4th Bowls E W Walker - singles - 6th T M Rainer - pairs - 9th J Banks - pairs - 9th C Gale - fours/rinks - 9th H Langley - fours/rinks - 9th William White - fours/rinks - 9th Sir Henry Barwell - fours/rinks - 9th Boxing Lightweight (up to 60 kg) Leonard Arthur Cook - Gold Cycling Time Trial Edgar Laurence 'Dunc' Gray - Gold, 1:16.4 (GR) 10 miles Edgar Laurence 'Dunc' Gray - Did not finish Horrace James Pethybridge - Did not finish 1,000 yards Sprint Horrace James Pethybridge - Silver Swimming 100 yd Freestyle Reginald Vaughan Clark 100 yd Backstroke Reginald Vaughan Clark 3x110 yd Medley Relay Reginald Vaughan Clark - 4th, 3:16.8 Alan Edward Higginson - 4th, 3:16.8 Noel Phillip Ryan - 4th, 3:16.8 200 yd Breaststroke, Men Alan Edward Higginson - 4th, 2:44.8 200 yd Breaststroke, Women Clare Dennis - Gold, 2:50.2 (GR) 440 yd Freestyle Noel Phillip Ryan - Gold, 5:03.0 (GR) 1,500 yd Freestyle Noel Phillip Ryan - Gold, 18:25.4 (GR) Diving Springboard Lesley Julia Thompson - Silver, 60.49 points Platform Lesley Julia Thompson - Silver, 27.64 points Wrestling Lightweight (up to 68 kg) Richard Edward 'Dick' Garrard - Gold Heavyweight (up to 100 kg) John Lambert 'Jack' Knight - Gold Officials Honorary Manager Herbert Krause Maxwell (NSW) Hon Chaperone - Millicent Isabel Watson (VIC) See also Australia at the 1932 Summer Olympics Australia at the 1936 Summer Olympics References "Flag bearers". Australian Commonwealth Games Association website on Pandora Archive. Archived from the original on 23 November 1998. Retrieved 11 February 2018. External links Commonwealth Games Australia