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Encyclopedia > Bobbie Rosenfeld

Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (July 5 or December 28, 1903, 1904, or 1905—November 14, 1969) was a Canadian athlete, who earned a gold medal for the 400 meter relay and a silver medal for the 100 meter at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.


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  • Dublin, Anne. Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Athlete Who Could Do Everything. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2004.

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JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - Biography (431 words)
Born in 1904, Rosenfeld was known for her wise cracks as well as for her sportsmanship.
By 1928 Rosenfeld was traveling to the Amsterdam Olympics for what she termed her "greatest victory." There, the small Canadian women's track team, celebrated by the press as "the matchless six," swept the events.
Rosenfeld was honored nationally in 1950 when a press poll of sportswriters voted her Canada’s Female Athlete of the Half-Century.
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