Bobbie Rosenfeld

Fanny "Bobby" Rosenfeld (born 5 July or December 28, 1903, 1904 or 1905 in Dnepropetrovsk, then Russia, † November 14, 1969 in Toronto ) was a Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

The true birth of Fanny Rosenfeld is in the dark. Emigrated in 1905 her family moved to Barrie, Ontario. 1922 the family moved to Toronto and Fanny earned their living as a stenographer in the local chocolate factory Patterson. For the sport she had only in the evenings and weekends time. She was interested in all kinds of sports and was active even in different clubs. A writer is said to have once remarked: " The sporting career can be best summed up like this ... It was not a good swimmer. "

1928 Rosenfeld traveled to the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. The press dubbed before the competition, the small group of Canadian athletes as " The incomparable Six ". Rosenfeld won gold in the 4 x 400 meters relay together with Ethel Smith, Florence Bell and Myrtle Cook, the silver medal in the 100 -meter run behind the US-American Betty Robinson and against her compatriot Ethel Smith and a fifth place the 800 -meter run. She took for her country at these games more points than any other athlete for their respective country.

Upon her return to Canada she developed arthritis, which kept them away for months of training. In 1931 she wanted to go back with a hockey team on their athletic achievements, but a second attack in 1933 prevented them. Then she withdrew forever from athletics. In the following years she wrote for the Toronto Globe and Mail, where she got her own column Sports Reel from 1937. Their main concern was the equality of women in admission to athletic competitions. As Canada's first female athlete she was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame, and 1966, the Canadian postal service in her honor issued a stamp. 1969 Rosenfeld died at the age of probably 65 years.