Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith

Cecil Smith
Full name	Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith
nation	Canada
birthday	September 14, 1908
place of birth	Toronto
date of death	1997
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Melville Rogers
society	Toronto Skating Club
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships silver New York City 1930 Ladies

Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith (born September 14, 1908 in Toronto ; † 1997 ) was a Canadian figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

Cecil Smith was Canadian champion in women's figure skating in 1925 and 1926. She was vice-champion five times, mostly losing to her toughest competitor Constance Wilson-Samuel . Smith only took part in one world championship , namely in New York in 1930 , where she immediately became vice world champion behind Sonja Henie and ahead of the American champion Maribel Vinson . This marked the first medal win for Canada at a world figure skating championship. Smith was also the first woman to represent Canada at the Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924 . She was 15 years old at the time and finished sixth in the singles competition and seventh in the couples competition with Melville Rogers . In 1928 in St. Moritz she played her second and last Olympic Games and finished fifth.

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933
winter Olympics		6th				5.
World championships								2.
Canadian Championships	2.		1.	1.	2.		2.		2.		2.

Pair skating

(with Melville Rogers )

Competition / year	1924
winter Olympics	7th

Web links

• Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )