Ethel Scott

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Ethel Scott athletics

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Ethel Scott (1929)

nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday October 22, 1907
date of death 1984
Career
discipline sprint
Best performance 7.8 s ( 60-meter run )
11.1 s ( 100 m (unconfirmed) )
society Middlesex Ladies' Athletics Club
Medal table
Women's World Games 1930 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze

Ethel Scott (born October 22, 1907 , † 1984 ) was a British sprinter . She was the first colored female athlete to represent the UK in an international competition.

Athletic career

Little information is available about the life and sports career of Ethel Scott. She grew up in East London ; probably the father was Jamaican and the mother English. Her specialty disciplines were the 60-meter run and the 4 x 100 meter relay . Presumably Ethel Scott was a member of the Middlesex Ladies' Athletics Club .

On August 30, 1930, Scott set her personal best over 60 meters in Mitcham . The time of 7.8 seconds was only two-tenths worse than the world record at the time and set the British national record held by Mary Lines . She was 39th on the list of the best in this discipline until 1940. Her best time over 100 meters was also stopped in 1930, at a meeting in Arras , France ; the time, also just above the world record, was not officially confirmed.

The climax of Scott's sporting career was in September 1930, when she was sent as one of 15 British athletes to the Women's World Games in Prague . There she started over 60 meters and in the 4 x 100 meter relay . In front of 15,000 spectators, she beat German runner Lisa Gelius in the 60-meter run , but was unable to place in the top six in the final. Her competitors in this discipline were the most successful runners at the time, such as Stanisława Walasiewicz (POL), Hitomi Kinue (JAP), Ivy Walker (GB) and Marguerite Radideau (FRA). During the season, Scott was more successful as a member of the British team: the team made up of Scott, Ivy Walker, Eileen Hiscock and Daisy Ridgley won the silver medal. Scott then traveled to Berlin with Ivy Walker to take part in an athletics meeting as the London team with Muriel Gunn-Cornell and F. Latham . On September 13, 1930, the quartet completed their 400 meters in 49.3 seconds.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethel Scott in the trackfield.brinkster.net database , accessed on September 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Lawrence Goldmann: Preface to the online release, May 2012 - Olympic and sporting lives. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c Women's Team for World Games. In: The Times , August 21, 1930.
  4. ↑ a b c Eric L. Cowe: International Women's Athletics 1890-1940. A Statistical History. Eric L. Cowe, Bingley 1985, pp. 5, 9, 80.
  5. ^ British Medallists in FSFI Women's World Games. In: gbrathletics.com. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
  6. ^ The Women's Olympiad. In: The Times , September 8, 1930.
  7. ↑ a b Eric L. Cowe: Early women's athletics. Statistics and history. Eric L. Cowe, Bingley 1999, ISBN 0-9537030-0-2 , pp. 112-13.

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personal data
SURNAME Scott, Ethel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1907
DATE OF DEATH 1984