Bobbie Rosenfeld
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (December 28, 1904 – November 14, 1969) was a Canadian athlete, who won a gold medal for the 100-metre relay and a silver medal for the 100-metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis; and was called Bobbie for her "bobbed" haircut. In 1949, named Rosenfeld the "Canadian woman athlete of the half-century." The Bobbie Rosenfeld Award is named in her honour. In 1996, she was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.
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| Birth name | Fanny Rosenfeld | ||||||||||||||
| Born | December 28, 1904 Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) | ||||||||||||||
| Died | November 13, 1969 (aged 64) Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
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