Daisy Ridgley

Daisy Ridgley (third from left)
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's Athletics
Women's World Games
Silver medal – second place 1930 Prague 4×100 metre relay

Daisy Florence Ridgley (sometimes written Ridgeley and later Pell[1]), born 9 January 1909, date of death unknown)[2] was an English athlete who competed in the 1930 Women's World Games.

Biography

Daisy Florence Ridgley was born in Essex.[3] When she took up athletics, she competed mainly at 200 metres but also at 100 metres.[2] In 1923, she began studying at Edmonton County School, which is now in the London Borough of Enfield in north London.[4]

Ridgley attended the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, but there was no women's 200 metre event.[4]

At the 1930 Women's World Games in Prague she was a member, along with Ethel Scott, Eileen Hiscock and Ivy Walker, of the British 4×100 metre relay team which won the silver medal.[5]

In 1931, she won the silver medal at the Olympics of Grace in Florence in the 100 metre race.[6]

In 1938, she married Reginald Pell in Edmonton, Middlesex.[7] According to the 1939 England and Wales Register, she at the time was an art teacher in Wembley.

References

  1. ↑ Cross Reference of Women's Marital Names National Union of Track Statisticians (retrieved 12 August 2018)
  2. 1 2 Track and Field Statistics Brinkster.net (retrieved 12 August 2018)
  3. ↑ "FreeBMD - Search".
  4. 1 2 Edmonton County School pupils Retrieved 12 August 2018
  5. ↑ Eric L. Cowe, Early women's athletics: statistics and history (Bingley: c1999), pp. 112-13.
  6. ↑ "Olympiad of Grace". Gbr Athletics. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "FreeBMD - Search".


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