Dorothy Greenhough-Smith

Dorothy Vernon Greenhough -Smith, born Muddock ( born September 27, 1882 in Yarm, † May 9, 1965 in Royal Tunbridge Wells ) was a British figure skater who started in a single run.

She was the daughter of writer James Edward Preston Muddock whose detective novels could compete for a time in their popularity with the Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. She married in 1900 to 28 years older publisher Herbert Greenhough Smith, who had the stories of Sherlock Holmes originally released as the first editor of The beach Magazine, he was from 1891 to 1930.

In 1908 Greenhough -Smith has been in the absence of Madge Syers British champion in the men's competition, as there were no ladies competition. In 1911 she was again British champion. At the first World Cup, in which women had their own competition, it was 1906 in Davos Fifth and last in the triumph of her country woman Madge Syers. At its second World Cup participation in 1912, again in Davos, Switzerland, she became Vice World Champion behind Opika of Méray - Horváth and before her compatriot Phyllis Johnson. At the Olympic Games in London in 1908, the first in which there was figure skating competitions, she won the bronze medal behind Madge Syers and Elsa Schmidt Rend.

Greenhough -Smith also took part in the women's singles in tennis from Wimbledon. She ended her active career as an athlete before the birth of her only child, a son who died as a child still.

Results

(*) In the men's competition, as there were no women's competition

Summer Olympic Games Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics 1912 World Figure Skating Championships Single skating Canon of Sherlock Holmes 1906 World Figure Skating Championships Elsa Rendschmidt Keiller Greig Arthur Cumming (figure skater) Basil Williams (figure skater) Henry Graham Sharp Arthur Apfel Michael Booker (figure skater) Haig Oundjian Robin Cousins Steven Cousins

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