Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld

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Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld

Olympics

She was Jewish

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Russia

December 28th 1904

Her family moved to Barrie, Ontario in 1904 after her birth

Her father Max opened a junk business

Her mother Sarah was a stay at home mom

She excelled in sports at school in Barrie

They then moved to Toronto, On

She was centre of the basketball team that won two championships

She entered the 100-yard dash in 1923 and defeated the Canadian champion Rosa Grosse.

Later that year she competed in a track meet.

• Bobbie set several record during the 1928 Olympic games
• running broad jump, standing broad jump, and discus
• She was close to beating the 100-metre dash time by four-fifths of a second
• She went on to compete in the 1928 summer Olympics and won gold in the 4x100 relay
• Earned a silver medal in the 91 metre dash

If Bobbie were to affect anyone in Lambton County it would be female athletes,mostly track & Field athletes and hockey players because that's what she was most known for. It shows that girls can play sports too and be good at it.

Early Life

Athletic Career

• In 1933 she developed arthritis the caused her to stop competing
• A year later she coached the Canadian Track & Field team
• During the 1930s the was administrator and official in woman's softball and ice hockey in Ontario
• In 1936 Rosenfeld started doing journalism
• She worked in the sports section of the Globe and Mail
• In 1937 she introduced a column call Feminine sports reel
• She was inducted into the sports Hall Of Fame in 1955
• She continued doing the newpaper until 1966
• She died on November 13th, 1969 in Toronto, On

• She had played hockey in the 1920s and 1930s
• Canada's most famous female hockey player
• She played center on the 1927 and 1929 Ontario champion teams
• She helped form the 1924 Ladies Ontario Hockey Association
• President of the LOHA from 1934-1939
• In 1936 she was also the secretary and treasurer of the LOHA
• From 1931-1932 she was considered the most outstanding woman's hockey player in all of Ontario

Retirement

• 1924- Claimed the Toronto Ladies Grass court tennis title.
• Competed in lacrosse, golf, and speed skating
• 1925-placed first in: discus, shot put, 220-yard dash, low hurdles, and long jump at the Ontario Ladies Track and Field championships.
• Also placed second in javelin, 100-yard dash
• She held records in the 440-yard open relay, standing broad jump, discus, javelin, and shot put
• She also played city championship ice hockey, fastball, and softball teams

Hockey