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Name
  
Gwendoline Porter


Role
  
Olympic athlete

Olympic medals
  
Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

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Gwendoline Alice Porter (25 April 1902–date of death unknown) was a British track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She was born in Ilford, London. She worked in the head office of an insurance company.

In 1932, she was one of five women entered by the Women's Amateur Athletic Association at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics as Britain's first female Olympians in athletics events, together with Ethel Johnson, Eileen Hiscock, Nellie Halstead, and seventeen-year-old Violet Webb. They sailed for five days from Southampton to Quebec and then travelled a further 3000 miles by train before arriving in Los Angeles. In the 4 x 100 metres women's relay she won the bronze medal with her team mates Eileen Hiscock, Violet Webb (replacing the injured Johnson) and Nellie Halstead. In the women's 100 metres she came 4th in her heat.

References

Gwendoline Porter Wikipedia


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