Jane Bell
Florence Jane Bell (June 2, 1910 – July 1, 1998) was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
Career
From Toronto, Bell competed for Canada in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates Fanny Rosenfeld, Ethel Smith, and Myrtle Cook.
Outside of track, Bell was also a competitive swimmer, curler and golfer, and worked as a physical education teacher at the Margaret Eaton School of Physical Culture in Toronto.[1]
Death
Bell died in Fort Myers, Florida, aged 88.
References
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- 1928: Canada (Rosenfeld, Smith, Bell, Cook)
- 1932: United States (Carew, Furtsch, Rogers, von Bremen)
- 1936: United States (Bland, Rogers, Robinson, Stephens)
- 1948: Netherlands (Stad-de Jong, Witziers-Timmer, van der Kade-Koudijs, Blankers-Koen)
- 1952: United States (Faggs, Jones, Moreau, Hardy)
- 1956: Australia (Strickland de la Hunty, Croker, Mellor, Cuthbert)
- 1960: United States (Hudson, Williams, Jones, Rudolph)
- 1964: Poland (Ciepły, Kirszenstein, Górecka, Kłobukowska)
- 1968: United States (Ferrell, Bailes, Netter, Tyus)
- 1972: West Germany (Krause, Mickler, Richter, Rosendahl)
- 1976: East Germany (Göhr, Stecher, Bodendorf, Wöckel)
- 1980: East Germany (Müller, Wöckel, Auerswald, Göhr)
- 1984: United States (Brown, Bolden, Cheeseborough, Ashford)
- 1988: United States (Brown, Echols, Griffith Joyner, Ashford)
- 1992: United States (Ashford, Jones, Guidry, Torrence, Finn)
- 1996: United States (Devers, Miller, Gaines, Torrence, Guidry)
- 2000: Bahamas (Fynes, Sturrup, Davis-Thompson, Ferguson, Lewis)
- 2004: Jamaica (Lawrence, Simpson, Bailey, Campbell, McDonald)
- 2008: Russia (Polyakova, Fedoriva, Gushchina, Chermoshanskaya)
- 2012: United States (Madison, Felix, Knight, Jeter, Tarmoh, Williams)
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