Scottish swimmer (1909?1994)
Ellen Elizabeth King
(16 January 1909 ? 3 February 1994)
[1]
was a Scottish competitive
swimmer
who represented Great Britain twice in the Olympics, and Scotland at the inaugural British Empire Games. King was a versatile swimmer, and competed in various
backstroke
,
breaststroke
,
freestyle
swimming events.
[1]
As a 15-year-old at the
1924 Summer Olympics
in Paris, although ill, she competed in the semi-finals of the
100-metre backstroke
and finished with the seventh best time overall. At 15, she was the youngest member of the British team.
[2]
[3]
Four years later at the
1928 Summer Olympics
in Amsterdam, King won two silver medals. She won the first medal as a member of the British women's team in the
4×100-metre freestyle relay
, together with her teammates
Joyce Cooper
,
Cissie Stewart
and
Iris Tanner
, coming second behind the American women. In individual competition, she won her second silver in the
100-metre backstroke
, finishing second behind Dutch swimmer
Marie Braun
and ahead of British teammate Joyce Cooper.
[4]
King had set a new world record in her semi-final heat, only to have it broken by Braun in her own qualifying heat.
In the late 1920s King set the world records in the 150-yard and 220-yard breaststroke.
[5]
At the inaugural
1930 British Empire Games
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, she won a silver medal in the 100-yard freestyle and a bronze medal in the 200-yard breaststroke. As a member of the Scottish relay team with
Jean McDowell
,
Cissie Stewart
, and Jessie McVey, she won her second bronze medal in the 4×100-yard freestyle competition.
[6]
On the journey to Canada, on board ship, she maintained her fitness by using a punchball.
Ellen King attended James Gillespie's High School, swam for the
Warrender Baths Club
in Scotland
[7]
and was a swimming teacher at Edinburgh schools for 40 years
[8]
until her retirement in 1974.
[2]
In 1928, she established the Zenith Ladies Amateur Swimming Club in response to the constraints imposed on her by male administrators who did not provide her or other female swimmers in the club enough opportunities to compete. In 2002, she was inducted into the
Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
.
[9]
See also
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References
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a
b
"Ellen King"
.
Olympedia
. Retrieved
20 March
2022
.
- ^
a
b
Edinburgh's 100 Greatest
Archived
13 December 2013 at the
Wayback Machine
",
The Edinburgh Evening News
(Undated). Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^
Martin Hannan, "
Scottish Sports Hall of Fame; The nominees: Ellen King (1909?1994)
",
Scotland on Sunday
(17 November 2002). Retrieved 14 February 2012.
- ^
Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes,
Ellen King
. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^
"
Ellen King (Ellen Pearson) 1909 ? 1994
",
The Gazetteer for Scotland
(Undated). Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^
Bilsborough, Peter (1968).
One Hundred Years of Scottish Swimming
. Scottish Amateur Swimming Association.
ASIN
B000QB8VIG
.
- ^
"
Wonder of Warrender
",
The Scotsman
(4 February 2006). Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ^
"
Olympic medals are sold
",
The Herald Scotland
(25 August 2001). Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^
Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, Inductees,
Ellen King
Archived
13 May 2013 at the
Wayback Machine
. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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- 1927: Great Britain (
Laverty
,
Davies
,
King
,
Cooper
)
- 1931: Netherlands (
Baumeister
,
Vierdag
,
den Ouden
,
Braun
)
- 1934: Netherlands (
Selbach
,
Timmermans
,
Mastenbroek
,
den Ouden
)
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Riise
,
Kraft
,
Ove-Petersen
,
Hveger
)
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Andersen
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Nathansen
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Linssen-Vaessen
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Heijting-Schuhmacher
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Temes
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Sz?ke
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- 1958: Netherlands (
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,
Lagerberg
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Kraan
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Gastelaars
)
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Lasterie
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Terpstra
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Tigelaar
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Buschschulte
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Kammerling
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