Dorothy Greenhough-Smith
Dorothy Greenhough-Smith 
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| Full name | Dorothy Vernon Greenhough-Smith | ||||||||||||
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| birthday | September 27, 1882 | ||||||||||||
| date of death | May 9, 1965 | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Single run | ||||||||||||
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Dorothy Vernon Greenhough-Smith , b. Muddock (born September 27, 1882 in Yarm , † May 9, 1965 in Royal Tunbridge Wells ) was a British figure skater who started in a single run .
She was the daughter of the writer James Edward Preston Muddock , whose crime novels could for a time rival the Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle in popularity . In 1900 she married Herbert Greenhough Smith , 28 years her senior , who was the first editor-in-chief of The Strand Magazine , from 1891 to 1930, who originally published the stories of Sherlock Holmes.
In 1908, Greenhough-Smith became British champion in men's competition in the absence of Madge Syers , as there was no women's competition. In 1911 she was again British champion. At the first world championship, where women had their own competition, she was fifth and last in the triumph of her compatriot Madge Syers in Davos in 1906 . In her second World Cup participation in 1912 , again in Davos , Switzerland , she was runner-up behind Opika von Méray Horváth and ahead of her compatriot Phyllis Johnson . At the 1908 Olympic Games in London , the first in which there were figure skating competitions, she won the bronze medal behind Madge Syers and Elsa Rendschmidt .
Greenhough-Smith also took part in women's tennis at Wimbledon . She ended her active sports career before the birth of her only child, a son who died as a child.
Results
| Competition / year | 1906 | 1908 | 1911 | 1912 |
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| Olympic games | 3. | |||
| World championships | 5. | 2. | ||
| British Championships | 1.* | 1.* |
(*) In the men's competition, as there was no women's competition yet
Web links
- Dorothy Greenhough-Smith in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Greenhough-Smith, Dorothy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greenhough-Smith, Dorothy Vernon (full name); Muddock (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yarm |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1965 |
| Place of death | Royal Tunbridge Wells |