Myrtle Cook
Cook (left, #675), winning in a preliminary heat in the women's 100m race against
Norma Wilson of New Zealand and Bets ter Horst of Netherlands on July 30, 1928 at the 1928 Summer Olympic Games.
Myrtle Alice Cook (also competed as Myrtle McGowan) (January 5, 1902 – March 18, 1985) was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
Career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she competed for Canada at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands where she won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres with her team mates 100 m silver medalist Fanny Rosenfeld, 100 m bronze medalist Ethel Smith and Jane Bell.
Cook equalled Betty Robinson's Women's 100m World Record on August 1, 1931. She died in Elora, Ontario in 1985.
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- 1928 Rosenfeld, Smith, Bell, Cook (CAN)
- 1932 Carew, Furtsch, Rogers, von Bremen (USA)
- 1936 Bland, Rogers, Robinson, Stephens (USA)
- 1948 Stad-de Jong, Witziers-Timmer, van der Kade-Koudijs, Blankers-Koen (NED)
- 1952 Faggs, Jones, Moreau, Hardy (USA)
- 1956 Strickland de la Hunty, Croker, Mellor, Cuthbert (AUS)
- 1960 Hudson, Williams, Jones, Rudolph (USA)
- 1964 Ciepły, Kirszenstein, Górecka, Kłobukowska (POL)
- 1968 Ferrell, Bailes, Netter, Tyus (USA)
- 1972 Krause, Mickler, Richter, Rosendahl (FRG)
- 1976 Göhr, Stecher, Bodendorf, Wöckel (GDR)
- 1980 Müller, Wöckel, Auerswald, Göhr (GDR)
- 1984 Brown, Bolden, Cheeseborough, Ashford (USA)
- 1988 Brown, Echols, Griffith Joyner, Ashford (USA)
- 1992 Ashford, Jones, Guidry, Torrence, Finn (USA)
- 1996 Devers, Miller, Gaines, Torrence, Guidry (USA)
- 2000 Fynes, Sturrup, Davis-Thompson, Ferguson, Lewis (BAH)
- 2004 Lawrence, Simpson, Bailey, Campbell, McDonald (JAM)
- 2008 Borlée, Mariën, Ouédraogo, Gevaert (BEL)
- 2012 Madison, Felix, Knight, Jeter, Tarmoh, Williams (USA)
- 2016 Bartoletta, Felix, Bowie, Gardner, Akinosun (USA)
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