Eva Dawes

Eva Dawes ( born September 17, 1912 in Toronto, Canada, † 30 May, 2009 Thames Ditton, England) was a Canadian athlete.

Dawes won in 1926 their first Canadian championship titles in the high jump, four more titles followed in 1932 to 1935. At the Olympic Games 1932 in Los Angeles, she presented with 1.60 meters, the Canadian high jump record of Ethel Catherwood and won the bronze medal behind the two U.S. women Jean Shiley and Mildred Didrikson, who jumped 1.65 meters world record. 1934 Dawes jumped at the British Empire Games in London 1.57 meters, which won the silver medal behind the South African Marjorie Clark.

In 1935, the 1.70 -meter Canadian an invitation to competitions in the Soviet Union, after which they suspended the Canadian Association of Athletics Federations. 1936 Dawes wanted to participate in the People's Olympics in Barcelona, ​​after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled with her team via Paris and London back to Canada. In London she met Arthur Spinks, whom she married in 1937. By 1969, the two lived in London, then they moved to Thames Ditton.