Bobbie Rosenfeld

Fanny Bobbie Rosenfeld (28 December 1904 to 14 November 1969) was a Canadian track and field athlete and sports journalist. Born in Ekaterinoslav in the Russian Empire, now Dnipro in Ukraine, she grew up in Barrie, Ontario, and moved to Toronto in 1922. At the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the first to include women's athletics, she won gold in the 4 x 100 metres relay, running the opening leg alongside Jane Bell, Ethel Smith and Myrtle Cook in a world record 48.4 seconds, and silver in the 100 metres, as a member of Canada's first Olympic women's track and field team, later called the Matchless Six. Before the Games she was one of the country's most versatile women athletes, competing at an elite level in track and field, softball, basketball, ice hockey and tennis. She later wrote a long-running column for the Toronto Globe and Mail, was named Canada's female athlete of the first half of the twentieth century, and was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.