Eileen Hiscock
Medal record | ||
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Women's athletics
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Representing the United Kingdom | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1936 Berlin | 4×100 metre relay | |
1932 Los Angeles | 4×100 metre relay | |
Women's World Games | ||
1930 Prague | 4×100 metre relay | |
1934 London | 100 m | |
1934 London | 200 m | |
Representing England | ||
British Empire Games | ||
1934 London | 100 yd | |
1934 London | 220 yd | |
1934 London | 3×110/220 yd | |
1934 London | 4×110/220 yd |
Eileen May Hiscock, later Wilson, (25 August 1909 – 3 September 1958) was an English track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was born in Blackheath, London.
At the 1930 Women's World Games in Prague she was a member, along with Ethel Scott, Ivy Walker and Daisy Ridgley, of the British 4×100 metre relay team which won the silver medal.[1] In the 1934 World Women's Games, she won the bronze medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres contests.[2]
In 1932, she was one of five women entered by the
At the 1934 Empire Games, she won the gold medal in the 100 yards competition as well as in the 220 yards contest. She also was a member of the English relay team which won the gold medal in the 110-220-110 yards relay contest and the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards relay competition (with Hiscock, Nellie Halstead, Ethel Johnson and Ivy Walker).[4]
In the
She married John H Wilson in 1936.
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eileen Hiscock". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ Eric L. Cowe, Early women's athletics: statistics and history (Bingley: c1999), pp. 112-13.
- ^ British medallists in FSFI Women's World Games
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/103699. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Commonwealth Games results Archived July 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. CWG. Retrieved 24 October 2015.