 They again met in the 880yd and 220yd events, with Charlton winning the former in a world record time of 10 min 51.8 s and the latter in an Australian record of 2 min 23.8 s.

Charlton was selected for the Australian team for the 1924 Summer Olympics and travelled to Paris by sea with his coach, Tom Adriann, who was also appointed the team coach.On the way, Adriann suffered a nervous breakdown, and threw himself overboard.Even though Adriann was rescued, he was left in London while the team travelled to Paris without a coach.