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Vera Searle

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Sport
  
Athletics

Died
  
12 September 1998

Event(s)
  
250 metres

Vera Maud Searle OBE (25 August 1901 – 12 September 1998) was a British sprinter and athletics administrator.

She was born Vera Maud Palmer in London, on 25 August 1901.

In 1926, competing as Vera Palmer, she won silver in the 250m at the 1926 Women's World Games, held at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In 1926, she married Wilfred Searle, and they had two daughters together.

References

Vera Searle Wikipedia