Camden Olympic games medallists from years gone by

The 2024 Olympic Games began in Paris last Friday (July 26) and many Team GB competitors have already picked up gold, silver and bronze medals.

They come from a long line of champions that played sports including Jeu de Paume, or racquets, as well as those that still feature today, such as boxing, diving and athletics.

Here are all the winners from down the years.

Hampstead

Cecil Browning won a silver medal in racquets in the 1908 London Olympics.

Eustace Miles, who lived in Hampstead, won silver medal in Jeu de Paume in the 1908 London Summer Olympics (Image: Unknown/Wiki)

In 1908, Eustace Miles also lived in the ward and took home a silver medal in Jeu de Paume, a ball-and-court game not unlike tennis that originated in France.

Alexander Rogers won a bronze medal in the single-shot running deer event in 1908.

After the First World War, Cyril Wright topped the podium at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, winning a gold medal in sailing.

Denys Carnill, now 90, got a bronze medal for a great performance in hockey in Helsinki in 1952, the same year the Soviet Union entered the competition for the first time.

He appeared for Great Britain 27 times including three Olympic Games, 1952 and as captain in 1956 and 1960.

Hampstead-born rower Charles Wiggin competed in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, where he and his partner Malcolm Carmichael won the bronze medal in the coxless pairs event behind the Soviet Union (silver) and East Germany (gold).

Camden

Alfred Schneidau, who lived in Camden, batted a silver medal in cricket at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, the only time the sport was scheduled as an event.

Marksman Harry Humby, from St Pancras, earned gold in the team small-bore rifle event and silver medal in the stationary target small-bore rifle at the 1908 London Olympics.

Four years later in Stockholm he won a silver medal in the team clay pigeons event.

Another sport shooter, Arthur Carnell, who lived in Somers Town, came home from the 1908 Olympics with a gold medal in the stationary target small-bore rifle event.

Cyclist Leon Meredith, from St Pancras, won a gold medal with the British team pursuit quartet in 1908 and in 1912 he won a silver medal in the team time trial on the road, having placed fourth individually.

Meredith, who had patented a racing tire and ran his own tire company, was also a fervent roller skater, operating his own rink and becoming British amateur roller skating champion in 1911 and 1912.

Shooter Maurice Matthews, from St Pancras, won a gold and a silver medal at the 1908 Olympics (Image: unknown/Olympiad)

St Pancras local Maurice Matthews was a member of the Mansfield (Highgate) Rifle Club, London, and won a gold and a silver medal at the 1908 Olympics.

Sailor George Ratsey, from St Pancras, was part of the crew in the Team GB 8 metre boat to win bronze at the London 1908 Games.

Henry Oberholzer, also from St Pancras, came third with a bronze medal in artistic gymnastics in Stockholm in 1912.

Francis Higgins, from St Pancras, was originally a reserve for the 1912 Olympic road race, but was called into the England squad that won the team road race silver medal.

Shortly after the Stockholm Games, Higgins finished third in the North Road 24-hour race, covering a distance of 384.75 miles (619 km).

Harry Ryan, lived in Euston Road, St Pancras. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and won the tandem competition with Thomas Lance, as well as a bronze medal in the sprint. 

Boxer Johnny Wright, who also lived in Camden, won a silver medal at the 1948 London Olympics. 

Charlie Gunn, an athlete from St Pancras, competed for Great Britain in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the 10-kilometre walk, winning the bronze medal.

Track and field athlete Gary Oakes, who lived in Kentish Town, won bronze at Moscow 1980 in the Men's 400-metres hurdles.

Track and Field athlete Gary Oakes, who lived in Kentish Town when he won his Olympic medals (Image: Unknown/Olympiad)

He is married to former sprinter Heather Hunte-Oakes, a two-time bronze medallist at Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984.