Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed as the host nation of the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The British Olympic Association was the National Olympic Committee responsible for organising the United Kingdom's representation. At the time British and Irish athletes competed under the team name "United Kingdom". The British team comprised 676 competitors.Telegraph.co.uk, Team GB first nation entered into London 2012 Olympics. De Wael counts 682. 1908 Olympians from Great Britain .

It was the fourth appearance of the country, which has not missed any of the Summer Olympic Games. The country finished in the Olympic table in first place for the first and only time in its history. The Men's field hockey on the 31st of October is the last time that Great Britain swept the medal podium at an Olympics, as of 2022.

Medallists

MedalNameSportEventDate Archery Men's double York round Archery Women's double National round Athletics Men's 400 m Athletics Men's 5 miles Athletics Men's 3200 m steeplechase , Joe Deakin, Arthur Robertson Athletics Men's 3 miles team race Athletics Men's 3500 m walk Men's 10 miles walk Athletics Men's triple jump Boxing Bantamweight Boxing Featherweight Boxing Lightweight Boxing Middleweight Boxing Heavyweight Cycling Men's 660 yd Cycling Men's 5000 m Cycling Men's 20 km Cycling Men's 100 km , Clarence Kingsbury,Leonard Meredith, Ernest Payne Cycling Men's team pursuit Figure skating Ladies' singles Football Field hockey , George Arthur Miller,Patteson Womersley Nickalls, Herbert Haydon Wilson Polo Rackets Men's singles , Vane Pennell Rackets Men's doubles Rowing Men's single sculls , Gordon Thomson Rowing Men's coxless pair , James Angus Gillan,Duncan Mackinnon, John Somers-Smith Rowing Men's coxless four , Charles Burnell,Raymond Etherington-Smith, Albert Gladstone,Banner Johnstone, Frederick Septimus Kelly,Gilchrist Maclagan, Guy Nickalls,Ronald Sanderson Rowing Men's eight , Gilbert Laws, Thomas McMeekin Sailing 6 m class , Richard Dixon,Charles Rivett-Carnac, Frances Rivett-Carnac Sailing 7 m class , Blair Cochrane,John Rhodes, Henry Sutton, Arthur Wood Sailing 8 m class  (helmsman),J. H. Downes (mate), J. S. Aspin, John Buchanan, J. C. Bunten, A. D. Downes, David Dunlop, John Mackenzie, Albert Martin, Gerald Tait: "Yachting" Sailing 12 m class Shooting Men's 1000 yd free rifle Shooting Men's stationary target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's moving target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's disappearing target small-bore rifle , Harold Humby,Maurice Matthews, William Pimm Shooting Men's team small-bore rifle , Alexander Maunder, Frederic Moore,Charles Palmer, John Pike, John Postans Shooting Men's trap, team Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle Men's 1500 m freestyle Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke , William Foster,Paul Radmilovic, Henry Taylor Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Tennis Men's singles , George Hillyard Tennis Men's doubles Tennis Men's indoor singles , Herbert Roper Barrett Tennis Men's indoor doubles Tennis Women's singles Tennis Women's indoor singles , John Duke, Frederick Goodfellow,Frederick Humphreys, William Hirons, Albert Ireton,Frederick Merriman, Edwin Mills, John James Shepherd Tug of war , Bernard Boverton Redwood,Isaac Thomas Thornycroft Water motorsports Class B Class C Water polo Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight Wrestling Men's freestyle middleweight Wrestling Men's freestyle heavyweight Archery Men's double York round Archery Women's double National round Athletics Men's 1500 m Athletics Men's 5 miles Athletics Men's 3200 m steeplechase Athletics Men's 3500 m walk Men's 10 miles walk Athletics Men's high jump Athletics Men's shot put Boxing Bantamweight Boxing Featherweight Boxing Lightweight Boxing Heavyweight Cycling Men's 20 km Cycling Men's 100 km , Thomas Johnson Cycling Men's tandem , Cecil Haig,Martin Holt, Robert Montgomerie Fencing Men's team épée Figure skating Men's special figures , Phyllis Johnson Figure skating Pairs Gymnastics Men's all-around Field hockey Jeu de paume Lacrosse , Frederick Freake,Walter Jones, John Wodehouse Polo , John Paul McCann,Percy O'Reilly, Auston Rotheram Polo Rackets Men's singles , Edmund Bury Rackets Men's doubles Rowing Men's single sculls , Philip Verdon Rowing Men's coxless pair , John Fenning,Philip Filleul, Gordon Thomson Rowing Men's coxless four Rugby union  (helmsman), J. G. Kenion (mate), J. M. Adam, James Baxter, W. P. Davidson, J. F. Jellico, T. A. R. Littledale, C. R. MacIver, C. Macleod Robertson, J. F. D. Spence Sailing 12 m class , John Martin, Harcourt Ommundsen,William Padgett, Philip Richardson, Fleetwood Varley Shooting Men's military rifle, team Shooting Men's stationary target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's moving target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's disappearing target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's single-shot running deer Men's double-shot running deer , William Russell Lane-Joynt,Charles Nix, Ted Ranken Shooting Men's team single-shot running deer Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke , Josiah Ritchie Tennis Men's doubles Tennis Men's indoor singles , George Simond Tennis Men's indoor doubles Tennis Women's singles Tennis Women's indoor singles , Thomas Butler, Charles Foden,William Greggan, Alexander Kidd, Daniel Lowey,Patrick Philbin, George Smith, Thomas Swindlehurst Tug of war Wrestling Men's freestyle bantamweight Wrestling Men's freestyle featherweight Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight Wrestling Men's freestyle middleweight Archery Women's double National round Athletics Men's 1500 m Athletics Men's 400 m hurdles Athletics Men's 10 miles walk Boxing Bantamweight Boxing Featherweight Boxing Lightweight Boxing Middleweight Boxing Heavyweight , Walter Isaacs Cycling Men's tandem Figure skating Men's special figures Figure skating Ladies' singles , Madge Syers Figure skating Pairs Field hockey Field hockey Jeu de paume Rackets Men's singles Rackets Men's singles , Henry Leaf Rackets Men's doubles Rowing Men's single sculls , John Burn,Oswald Carver, Henry Goldsmith,Frank Jerwood, Harold Kitching,Eric Powell, Douglas Stuart,Edward Gordon Williams Rowing Men's eight , Frederick Hughes,Philip Hunloke, George Ratsey, William Dudley Ward Sailing 8 m class Shooting Men's 1000 yd free rifle Shooting Men's stationary target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's moving target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's disappearing target small-bore rifle Shooting Men's single-shot running deer , William Ellicott,Henry Lynch-Staunton, Jesse Wallingford Shooting Men's 50 yd free pistol, team Shooting Men's trap , Henry Creasey, Bob Hutton,William Morris, George Herbert Skinner, George Whitaker Shooting Men's trap, team Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke Tennis Men's singles , Charles P. Dixon Tennis Men's doubles Tennis Women's singles , Joseph Dowler, Ernest Ebbage,Thomas Homewood, Alexander Munro, William Slade,Walter Tammas, T. J. Williams, James Woodget Tug of war Wrestling Men's freestyle featherweight Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight Wrestling Men's freestyle middleweight Wrestling Men's freestyle heavyweight

Results by event

Archery

In the archery competition, the British team dominated the two events (one for men, one for women) popular in their country, winning both championships and second places as well as one third place, losing only a single bronze medal to the United States. British women were the only ones to compete in the women's event. Great Britain had 41 archers present, 25 women and 16 men; they totalled 42 entries over all three events held.

Brother and sister William and Lottie Dod took gold and silver medals, Queenie Newall taking the women's gold to become the oldest female gold medallist in Olympic history (a record she holds through the 2004 Summer Olympics), and the only Irish woman present at the 1908 Games won the women's bronze medal.

The British did not do as well in the Continental style, dominated by the French team, with the only Briton taking 12th place. Robert Backhouse, however, shot a score in a friendly demonstration that would have placed him second had he been in actual competition.

Event Place Archer Score Men's double York round 1st William Dod 815 2nd Reginald Brooks-King 768 4th John Penrose 709 5th John Bridges 687 6th Harold James 652 7th Theodore Robinson 647 8th Hugh Nesham 643 9th John Keyworth 622 10th Charles Perry-Keene 543 11th Capel Pownall 532 12th John Stopford 530 13th Robert Backhouse 516 14th Robert Heathcote 476 15th Geoffrey Cornewall 430 18th Charles Coates 413 21st R. H. Bagnall-Oakeley 374 Men's Continental style 12th John Keyworth 190 Women's double National round 1st Queenie Newall 688 2nd Lottie Dod 642 3rd Beatrice Hill-Lowe 618 4th Jessie Wadworth 605 5th G. W. H. Honnywill 587 6th S. H. Armitage 582 7th V. W. H. Priestley-Foster 553 8th Lillian Wilson 534 9th Mary Wadworth 522 10th M. Boddam-Whetham 510 11th Gertrude Appleyard 503 12th E. Nott-Bower 503 13th Lillias Robertson 500 14th Margaret Weedon 498 15th Albertine Thackwell 484 16th Doris E. Day 483 17th K. G. Mudge 465 18th Ellen Babington 451 19th Christine Cadman 427 20th Martina Hyde 419 21st Sarah Leonard 410 22nd Ina Wood 387 23rd Janetta Vance 385 24th Emily Rushton 323 25th Hilda Williams 316

Athletics

The British team was the second most successful team in athletics. With 7 first-place finishes, they gathered less than half the championships that the American team did at 16, but still nearly doubled all other teams combined (4 gold medals).

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