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

Women's events

Swimming

Men's events

Women's events

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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