Margaret Cooper

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Margaret Cooper (1934)

Margaret Joyce Cooper , after marriage to Badcock , (born April 18, 1909 in Ceylon , † July 22, 2002 in Chichester , England ) was a British swimmer who won four Olympic medals.

Career

Margaret Cooper grew up as one of three daughters of a tea plantation owner in the British colony of Ceylon, today's Sri Lanka. She learned to swim in the Indian Ocean.

In 1927, the second European championships took place after 1926. At the European Swimming Championships in Bologna in 1927 , competitions for women were also on the program for the first time. The Dutchwoman Marie Vierdag won the 100 meter freestyle ahead of Margaret Cooper. The British 100-meter freestyle relay with Marion Laverty , Valerie Davis , Ellen King and Margaret Cooper won the title ahead of the Dutch and the Germans.

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , the freestyle relay from the United States won ahead of the British relay with Margaret Cooper, Sarah Stewart , Irene Tanner and Ellen King. Two days later, the Dutchwoman Marie Braun won the 100-meter backstroke in 1: 22.0 minutes ahead of Ellen King in 1: 22.2 minutes and Margaret Cooper in 1: 22.8 minutes. On the same day the final of the 100 meter freestyle took place. Here Albina Osipowich from the United States won ahead of her compatriot Eleanor Saville . Behind them Margaret Cooper was awarded the bronze medal ahead of the British Jean McDowell . The two had struck almost at the same time, the decision on the bronze medal went with 3.2 referee votes in favor of Cooper.

In 1930, the British Empire Games, the forerunner of the Commonwealth Games, were held for the first time in Hamilton, Canada . At the British Empire Games 1930 , Margaret Cooper won over 100 yards freestyle for England in front of Ellen King, who started for Scotland, and Valerie Davis, who started for Wales. Cooper won over 400 meters ahead of Valerie Davis and Sarah Stewart from Scotland. Cooper won her third title over 100 yards backstroke ahead of Valerie Davis and Phyllis Harding from England . The English freestyle relay with Margaret Cooper, her sister Doreen Cooper, Olive Joynes and Phyllis Harding won ahead of the Canadian and Scottish relays.

At the European Swimming Championships in Paris in 1931 , Cooper took third place in the 100 meters freestyle behind the French Yvonne Godard and the Dutch Willy den Ouden . Over 400 meters freestyle and over 100 meters back, she was awarded the silver medal behind Marie Braun from the Netherlands. In the freestyle relay, the Dutch women won ahead of the British relay with Valerie Davis, Phyllis Harding, Jean McDowell and Cooper.

Cooper took part in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , competed in four disciplines and reached the finals three times. First she was eliminated over 100 meters freestyle in the semifinals, where she was fourth in the first heat faster than all swimmers in the second heat; but only the best three of each heat made it to the final. Then she took sixth place over 100 meters back. In the freestyle relay, the swimmers from the United States won ahead of the Dutch women, followed by the British relay with Valerie Davis, Helen Varcoe , Edna Hughes and Margaret Cooper the bronze medal. A day later, Cooper finished fourth in the 400 meter freestyle.

In 1934 she married the Olympic rowing champion John Badcock ; the sons David and Felix were successful rowers in the 1950s, but, unlike their parents, did not reach the Olympic Games. In 1996 Margaret Joyce Cooper was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ In the German-language sources she is called Margaret Cooper, in the English-language sources Joyce Cooper.
  2. ↑ European Swimming Championships Freestyle on sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 652f
  4. ↑ Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the IX. 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and the II Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-89784-411-7 . P. 353
  5. ↑ Results according to gbrathletics , the relay list follows the entry for Phyllis Harding in Sports-Reference
  6. ↑ European Swimming Championships back on sport-komplett.de
  7. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 734f
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Margaret Joyce (full name); Badcock, Margaret Joyce (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceylon
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2002
Place of death Chichester , England