Eileen May Hiscock, later Wilson, (25 August 1909 – 3 September 1958) was an

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. She was born in Blackheath, London. At the 1930 Women's World Games in Prague she was a member, along with Ethel Scott, Ivy Walker and Daisy Ridgley, of the British 4×100 metre relay team which won the silver medal.Eric L. Cowe, Early women's athletics: statistics and history (Bingley: c1999), pp. 112-13. In the 1934 World Women's Games, she won the bronze medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres contests. In 1932, she was one of five women entered by the Women's Amateur Athletic Association at the 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics as Britain's first female Olympians in athletics events, together with Ethel Johnson (athlete), Ethel Johnson, Gwendoline Porter, Nellie Halstead, and seventeen-year-old Violet Webb. They sailed for five days from Southampton to Quebec and then travelled a further 3000 miles by train before arriving in Los Angeles. In the 4 x 100 metres women's relay she won the bronze medal with her team mates Gwendoline Porter, Violet Webb (replacing the injured Johnson) and Nellie Halstead. In the women's 100 metres she came 5th. At the 1934 Empire Games she won the gold medal in the 100 yards competition as well as in the 220 yards contest. She also was a member of the English relay team which won the gold medal in the 110-220-110 yards relay contest and the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards relay competition (with Hiscock, Nellie Halstead, Ethel Johnson (athlete), Ethel Johnson and Ivy Walker).''Commonwealth Games results''
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she won the silver medal with her team mates Violet Olney, Audrey Brown and Barbara Burke in the 4×100 metre relay event. In the Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metres, 100 metre event she was eliminated in the semi-finals. She married John H Wilson in 1936.

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image Eileen Hiscock, medal ceremony Berlin 1936 (Lewisham's Olympic Legacy)

image Eileen Hiscock (Athletic Cards.com)

Images Eileen Hiscock (Getty Images)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hiscock, Eileen 1909 births 1958 deaths English female sprinters Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain English Olympic medallists Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Sportspeople from Blackheath, London Place of birth missing Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Women's World Games medalists Olympic female sprinters Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games