Isabella "Belle" Mary Moore (23 October 1894 – 7 March 1975), later known by her married name Belle Cameron, was a Scottish competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics. At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, Moore won a gold medal as a member of the first-place British women's team in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, together with teammates Jennie Fletcher, Annie Speirs and

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presented Moore and her teammates with their gold medals and Olympic laurels. Moore was trained as a longer-distance swimmer, but only 100-metre swimming events were available for women at the 1912 Olympics; she was eliminated in the semi-finals of the women's 100-metre freestyle. At 17 years and 226 days old, she remains the youngest British woman to win an Olympic gold medal; she is also the only Scottish woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming. Moore was born the eighth child of nine in her family. She started training in early age and by 17 already worked as a swimming instructor. In 1919, she married George Cameron, a naval architect; together they moved to

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, United States, where Moore gave birth to a daughter, Doris, and son, George. She spent the rest of her life in Maryland where she taught swimming to thousands of children. She was posthumously inducted into the

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as an "Honor Pioneer Swimmer" in 1989.

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Belle Moore, Jennie Fletcher, Annie Speirs, Irene Steer 1912

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