Bobbie Rosenfeld
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Canadian athletics competitor (1904–1969)
Key facts
- Born
- Fanny Rosenfeld , ( 1904-12-28 ) December 28, 1904, Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro , Ukraine)
- Died
- November 13, 1969 (1969-11-13) (aged 64), Toronto, Ontario , Canada
- Height
- 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 61 kg (134 lb)
- Country
- Canada
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 m relay
- Club
- Parkdale Ladies' Athletic Club, Toronto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fanny
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Dnipro
- Place of death
- Toronto
- Occupation
- ice hockey player
- Participant in
- 1928 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Canada
- Mass
- 61
- Image
- Fanny Bobbie Rosenfeld with trophies and medals, circa 1928.jpg
- Height
- 169
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- Commons category
- Bobbie Rosenfeld
- date of birth
- 1904-12-28
- date of death
- 1969-11-14
- place of burial
- Toronto
- nickname
- Bobbie
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Encyclopedic overview
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (December 28, 1904 – November 14, 1969) was a Canadian track and field athlete and sports journalist who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay and a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She competed as a member of Canada's first Olympic women's track and field team, later known as the "Matchless Six", which took part in the first Olympic Games to include women's athletics in 1928. Rosenfeld ran the opening leg of the relay alongside Jane Bell, Ethel Smith, and Myrtle Cook, and the Canadian team won the event in a world-record time of 48.4 seconds.
Before the Olympics Rosenfeld was one of Canada's most versatile female athletes, competing at an elite level in track and field, softball, basketball, ice hockey, and tennis. She set multiple Canadian track records in the 1920s and was widely regarded as one of the country's leading women athletes of the era.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bobbie Rosenfeld” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.