Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games

Australia at the
1930 British Empire Games
Australia at the; 1930 British Empire Games
CGF code	AUS
CGA	Australian Commonwealth Games Association
Website	commonwealthgames.org.au
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Competitors	7 in 4 sports
Flag bearers	Opening: Bobby Pearce; Closing:
Officials	2
Medals; Ranked 4th	Gold 3 Silver 4 Bronze 1 Total 8
British Empire Games appearances
	1930; 1934; 1938; 1950; 1954; 1958; 1962; 1966; 1970; 1974; 1978; 1982; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022;

Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games was represented by a handful of athletes and abbreviated AUS.

Australia was one of only eleven countries to be represented at these inaugural Games.

At these first Games, Australia won only eight medals against England's 61. The Australians' return home was delayed because the RMS Tahiti on which they were due to travel sank during the Games.^[3]

Medallists[edit]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Bobby Pearce	Rowing	Men's Singles Sculls
Gold	Noel Ryan	Swimming	Men's 440 yards Freestyle
Gold	Noel Ryan	Swimming	Men's 1500 yards Freestyle
Silver	William Whyte	Athletics	Men's 1 Mile Run
Silver	Alex Hillhouse	Athletics	Men's 2 Mile Steeplechase
Silver	Alex Hillhouse	Athletics	Men's 3 Mile Run
Silver	Dudley Gallagher	Boxing	Men's Middleweight Division (75 kg)
Bronze	George Golding	Athletics	Men's 440 Yard Run/Quarter Mile

1930 Australian Team & Results[edit]

Athletics[edit]

Men's 440 Yard Run/Quarter Mile

George Augustus Golding – Bronze, 49.6 s (in heat)
Herbert Alexander Bascombe – 6th, 49.4 s (in heat)

Men's 880 Yard Run/Half Mile

Herbert Alexander Bascombe – 5th in Heat 1
George Augustus Golding – Did not finish

Men's 1 Mile Run

William "Tickle" Miller Whyte – Silver, 4 min 17.0 s
Russell McDougall – 7th

Men's 2 Mile Steeplechase

Alex John Hillhouse – Silver

Men's 3 Mile Run

Alex John Hillhouse – Silver, 14 min 27.6 s

Men's 6 Mile Run

Alex John Hillhouse – Did not start

Men's 4 x 110 Yard Relay

Australia – Did not start

Boxing[edit]

Men's Middleweight Division (75 kg)

Dudley C. Gallagher – Silver

Rowing[edit]

Men's Singles Sculls

Robert Pearce – Gold

Swimming[edit]

Men's 100 Yards Backstroke

(Ivan) William Cameron – 4th

Men's 100 Yards Freestyle

(Ivan) William Cameron – 4th

Men's 1500 Yards Freestyle

Noel Phillip Ryan – Gold, 18 min 55.4 s

Men's 440 Yards Freestyle

Noel Phillip Ryan – Gold, 4 min 39.8 s

Officials[edit]

Honorary Manager – Hugh Richard Weir (VIC)
Honorary Coach-Trainer – Harvey Howard Fargher (VIC)

References[edit]

^ "Flag bearers". Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 23 November 1998. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
^ "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "EMPIRE GAMES". Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 – 1954). Port Pirie, SA. 20 August 1930. p. 1. Retrieved 22 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

External links[edit]

Commonwealth Games Australia Results Database

[1] "Flag bearers". Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 23 November 1998. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

[2] "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "EMPIRE GAMES". Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 – 1954). Port Pirie, SA. 20 August 1930. p. 1. Retrieved 22 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

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