Aquatics at the 1934 British Empire Games

At the 1934 British Empire Games in London, England, there were two aquatics disciplines – swimming and diving. There were four diving events contested and eleven swimming events.

The events were held at the Wembley Empire Pool, which was built specifically for the games on the instruction of Arthur Elvin.

Medal table

Medal summary Diving Men's events 3 m springboard117.12110.50106.5710 m platform83.8383.6370.64

Women's events 3 m springboard62.2760.4957.0010 m platform30.7427.6427.36

Swimming Men's events 100 yd freestyle55.055.656.2 440 yd freestyle5:03.05:07.85:14.8 1500 yd freestyle18:25.418:28.418:33.2 100 yd backstroke01:05.21:05.61:06.6 200 yd breaststroke2:41.42:42.42:42.8 4×200 yd freestyle relayGeorge LarsonGeorge BurleighRobert HooperBob Pirie8:40.6Mostyn Ffrench-WilliamsNorman WainwrightReginald SuttonBob Leivers8:52.8George AndersonHarry CunninghamMerrlees ChasselsWillie Burns9:23.4 3×110 yd medley relayBen GazellGeorge BurleighAlbert Puddy3:11.2Merrlees ChasselsNorman HamiltonWillie Francis3:15.2Arthur SummersJohn BesfordMostyn Ffrench-Williams3:16.0

Women's events 100 yd freestyle1:03.01:03.61:05.8 440 yd freestyle5:45.6 Jenny Maakal (SAF)5:53.05:54.4 100 yd backstroke1:13.81:15.0 Valerie Davies (WAL)1:18.2 200 yd breaststroke2:50.22:55.42:58.6 4×100 yd freestyle relayPhyllis DewarFlorence HumbleMargaret HuttonIrene Pirie4:21.8Jenny MaakalEnid HaywardKathleen RussellMolly Ryde4:34.0Edna HughesBeatrice WolstenholmeOlive BartleMargery Hinton4:34.4 3×110 yd medley relayMargaret HuttonPhyllis HaslamPhyllis Dewar3:42.0Phyllis HardingVera KingstonEdna Hughes3:43.0Jean McDowellMargot HamiltonMadge McCallum3:50.0

Finals Men (swimming) 100 yd freestyle 1 George Burleigh :55.0 2 George Larson :55.6 3 Noel Crump :56.2 4 Reginald Sutton :57.8 5 Frederick Dove :57.8 6 Mostyn Ffrench-Williams :58.0

440 yd freestyle 1 Noel Ryan :5:03.0 2 Norman Wainwright :5:07.8 3 Bob Pirie :5:14.8 4 George Larson :5:20.8 5 Peter Foster :5:32.8 6 Bob Leivers :5:35.4

1500 yd freestyle 1 Noel Ryan :18:25.2 2 Bob Pirie :18:28.4 3 Norman Wainwright :18:33.2 4 Peter Foster :19:57:2 5 Robert Hooper :19:58:6 6 George Larson :dns

100 yd backstroke 1 Willie Francis :01:05.2 2 John Besford :1:05.6 3 Ben Gazell :1:06.6 4 G. May :01:07.4 5 Kenneth Scott :1:07.6 6 Willie Burns :1:09.6

200 yd breaststroke 1 Norman Hamilton :2:41.4 2 William McCarty :2:42.4 3 Bill Puddy :2:42.8 4 Alan Edward Higginson :2:44.8 5 Goldup Davies :2:46.4 6 A Gourlay :2:47.0

4×200 yd freestyle relay 1 Canada :8:40.6 (Larson, Burleigh,Hooper, Pirie) 2 England :8:52.8 (Ffrench-Williams, Wainwright, Sutton, Leivers) 3 Scotland :9:23.4 (Anderson, Cunningham, Chassels, Burns) 4 Wales :10:16.2 (Capon, Davies, Evans, Street)

3×110 yd medley relay 1 Canada :3:11.2 (Gazell, Burleigh, Puddy) 2 Scotland :3:15.2 (Chassels, Hamilton, Francis) 3 England :3:16.0 (Summers, Besford, Ffrench-Williams) 4 Australia :3.16.8 (Clark, Higginson, Ryan) 5 New Zealand :3.18.8 (Crump, Smith, Whareaitu)

Women (swimming) 100 yd freestyle 1 Phyllis Dewar :1:03.0 2 Irene Pirie :1:03.6 3 Jean McDowell :1:05.8 4 Enid Hayward :1:06.4 5 Edna Hughes :1:06.6 6 Jenny Maakal :1:06.8

440 yd freestyle 1 Phyllis Dewar :5:45.6 2 Jenny Maakal :5:53.0 3 Irene Pirie :5:54.4 4 Beatrice Wolstenholme :5.56.2 5 Margery Hinton :6.00.0 6 Gladys Morcom :6.16.0

100 yd backstroke 1 Phyllis Harding :1:13.8 2 Margot Hamilton :1:15.0 3 Valerie Davies :1:18.2 4 Audrey Hancock :1:20.6 5 M Moffatt :1:21.8 6 Molly Ryde :1:22.0

200 yd breaststroke 1 Clare Dennis :2:51.2 2 Phyllis Haslam :2:55.4 3 Margery Hinton :2:58.6 4 Margaret Gomm :3:01.4 5 Vera Kingston :3:06.2 6 Jenny Maakal :dns

4×100 yd freestyle relay 1 Canada :4:21.4-5 (Dewar, Humble, Hutton, Pirie) 2 South Africa :4:34 (Maakal, Hayward, Russell, Ryde) 3 England :4:34.2-5 (Hughes, Wolstenholme, Bartle, Hinton) 4 Scotland :4.44.1-5 (McCallam, Hamilton, Parker, McDowell) 5 Wales :4. (Greenland, Evans, Gould, Davies)

3×110 yd medley relay 1 Canada :3:42.0 (Hutton, Haslam, Dewar) 2 England :3:43.0 (Harding, Kingston, Hughes) 3 Scotland :3:50.0 (McDowell, Hamilton, McCallum) 4 South Africa :

Men (diving) 3 m springboard 1 John Brisco Ray :117.12 Pts 2 Doug Tomalin :110.50 3 Harry Class :106.57 4 Peter Beveridge :95.49

10 m platform 1 Tommy Mather :83.83 Pts 2 Doug Tomalin :83.63 3 Louis Marchant :70.64 4 Arthur Perrow :46.25

Women (diving) 3 m springboard 1 Judith Moss :62.27 Pts 2 Lesley Thompson :60.49 3 Doris Ogilvie :57.00 4 Katinka Larsen :54.10 5 Oonagh Whitsett :52.20 6 M Stoneberg :46.43

10 m platform 1 Dot Macready :30.74 Pts 2 Lesley Thompson :27.64 3 Cecily Cousens :27.36 4 Lynda Adams :27.20 5 M Stoneberg :26.90 6 N Morales :24.63

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