Myrtle Cook

Myrtle Cook

Medal record
Women's athletics Competitor for Canada
Olympic Games
	1928 Amsterdam	4x100 m relay

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 medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, 100 m bronze medallist Ethel Smith and Jane Bell.^{[citation needed]}

Cook was involved in ice hockey and served as president of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association prior to 1937.^[1]

Cook equalled Betty Robinson's Women's 100m World Record on August 1, 1931. She died in Elora, Ontario in 1985.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

External links[]

• Library and Archives Canada: Myrtle Cook

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