Edwina Chamier

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Edwina Chamier (born March 27, 1890 - May 31, 1981 in England ; born Edwina Ratcliffe Lordly ) was a Canadian ski racer . Until the 2002 Winter Olympics , she was the oldest female athlete to ever take part in the Winter Olympics.

Chamier was a member of Canada's four-man Alpine women's team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the alpine combination, which was held for the first time, she finished 26th in downhill skiing. In the slalom held the next day, however, she was eliminated in the second round and was not placed.

On the day of the slalom competition, Chamier was 45 years and 318 days old. This made her by far the oldest participant in the Winter Olympics. She held this age record until 2002, when luge rider Anne Abernathy played her fifth Winter Games at the age of 48.

Chamier was born to Edwin D. Lordly. In 1918 she married the British RAF officer John Adrian Chamier. The couple had two sons together. The younger was also a member of the Royal Air Force and died in Southern Rhodesia in 1940 . The elder John Edwin Chamier was a successful sailor in the 1950s and later worked as a journalist and author.