Charlotte Ellen Radcliffe (3 August 1903 – 12 December 1979) was an English competitive swimmer from
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
who competed for Great Britain in the
1920 Summer Olympics.
In the
1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, at age 17,
[The final event was held on 29 August 1920, after Radcliffe's birthday] she won a silver medal in the
4×100-metre freestyle relay, in which she swam the third leg of the race. She finished seventh in her first heat of
100-metre freestyle event and did not advance.
She is the great aunt of long-distance runner
Paula Radcliffe
Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a former British long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), and 2002 Chicago Marath ...
.
See also
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List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in swimming.
Current program
50 metre freestyle
100 metre freestyle
200 metre freestyle
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1903 births
1979 deaths
English female swimmers
English female freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Sportspeople from Liverpool
People from Garston
20th-century English women
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