Jean McDowell

Jean McDowell
Medal record
Women's swimming
Competitor for  Scotland
British Empire Games
1930 Hamilton 4×100 yd freestyle
1934 London 100 yd freestyle
1934 London 3×110 yd medley
Competitor for  Great Britain
European Championships
1931 Paris 4×100 m freestyle

Jean H. McDowell (later Burnett, born 22 September 1908 in Edinburgh,[1] died 2 February 2000[2]) was a Scottish freestyle swimmer who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she finished fourth the 100 metre freestyle event.[3]

Two years later she won the bronze medal with the Scottish team in 4×100 yards freestyle competition at the 1930 British Empire Games with Cissie Stewart, Ellen King and Jessie McVey).[4] At the Aquatics at the 1934 British Empire Games she won the bronze medal in the 100 yards freestyle contest as well as a bronze medal with the Scottish team in the 3×110 yards medley event (with Margot Hamilton and Margaret McCullum).[4] She won a silver medal at the 1931 European Aquatics Championships as part of the 4×100 metres Freestyle Relay (with Valerie Davies, Phyllis Harding, and Joyce Cooper).[5]

In Scotland she swam for Warrender Baths Club[2] where she won five Scottish Swimming Championships.[6] She lived for many years in North Berwick East of Edinburgh,[7] and became President of the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association and Chairman of the British Ladies Golf Union.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Daniels, Stephanie (Spring 1999) Swimming to the very end - British Swimming Memories of 1928, Amsterdam Journal of Olympics History, copy of article retrieved from the web 10 November 2013
  2. 1 2 3 Tedder, Anita and Daniels, Stephanie (12 February 2000) Jean Burnett The Herald, Retrieved 25 January 2013
  3. ↑ Gilmore, Jamie, editor (1990) "One Hundred Years of Warrender Baths Club 1888-1988" Macdonald Lindsay Pindar plc, Edinburgh, ISBN 0-9516787-0-1
  4. 1 2 "One Hundred Years of Scottish Swimming", Peter Bilsborough, 1988, Scottish Amateur Swimming Association
  5. ↑ (2015) Jewan McDowell SR/Olympic Sports, Retrieved 15 June 2015
  6. ↑ (2015) Jean McDowell (Jean Burnett) 1908 - 2000 The Gazetteer for Scotland, Retrieved 16 June 2-015
  7. ↑ (2011) Olympic Women Retrieved 15 June 2015

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