Eva Dawes
Eva Dawes (born September 17, 1912 in Toronto , Canada, † May 30, 2009 in Thames Ditton , England) was a Canadian athlete .
Dawes won her first Canadian high jump championship title in 1926 , another four titles followed in the years 1932 to 1935. At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she set Ethel Catherwood's Canadian high jump record with 1.60 meters and won the bronze medal behind the two Americans Jean Shiley and Mildred Didrikson , who jumped a world record with a height of 1.65 meters. In 1934, Dawes jumped 1.57 meters at the British Empire Games in London, winning the silver medal behind South African Marjorie Clark .
In 1935, the 1.70-meter-tall Canadian accepted an invitation to compete in the Soviet Union, whereupon the Canadian Athletics Federation suspended her. In 1936 Dawes wanted to take part in the People's Olympiad in Barcelona, after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , she and her team traveled back to Canada via Paris and London. In London she had met Arthur Spinks, whom she married in 1937. The two lived in London until 1969 when they moved to Thames Ditton.
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2010. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2010, ISBN 978-1-899807-92-5 (obituary p. 95).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dawes, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spinks, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 2009 |
| Place of death | Thames Ditton , England |