Cissie Stewart Explained

Birth Date:19 July 1911
Birth Place:Dundee, Scotland
Death Place:Troon, Scotland

Sarah Gillow Marshall "Cissie" Stewart (19 July 1911 – 8 January 2008), later known by her married name Sarah Hunt, was a Scottish swimmer who competed and won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Stewart was from Dundee,[1] the daughter of footballer William Stewart.[2] She was a member of the Dundee Belmont Swimming Club.[3] [4]

Swimming career

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Cissie Stewart won a silver medal in the Women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay event and was fourth in the Women's 400-metre freestyle event. Her Olympic teammates were Joyce Cooper, Ellen King, Jean McDowell, and Vera Tanner.[5] [6]

Stewart placed second in the 1929 national 440-yard freestyle championship, at Bristol.[7] She also competed for Scotland at the 1930 British Empire Games and the 1934 British Empire Games, and won a bronze medal in the 4×100-yard freestyle relay.[8] [9]

Personal life

Stewart married a journalist, Bill Hunt, in Walkerville, Ontario in 1930;[10] she smuggled her wedding dress into her luggage for the Commonwealth Games in nearby Hamilton, and the couple eloped immediately after the event.[11] She moved to Glasgow as a newlywed. She died at a nursing home in Troon in 2008, aged 96 years.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Handley. L. de B.. 1928-12-31. Dundee Naiad Fine Prospect. 21. The Boston Globe. 2020-07-31. Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: Thomson. David. 2006-03-31. Olympic Swimmer (August 1928). 2020-07-31. Bygone Dundee. en. 13 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130813222110/http://index.html/. dead.
  3. Web site: Sarah (Cissie) Gillow Marshall Stewart. 2020-07-31. The Gazetteer for Scotland. en-gb.
  4. News: Brown. John. 13 November 2017. BLETHER WITH BROWN: Dundee's best swimmer revealed. en-GB. Evening Telegraph. 2020-07-31. 0307-1235.
  5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lz2rq "Sporting Witness: Lady Swimmers of the 1920s"
  6. Book: Williams, Jean. Britain's Olympic Women: A History. 2020. Routledge. 978-1-000-16320-9. en.
  7. News: 1929-08-17. Dives and Splashes. 10. The Boston Globe. 2020-07-31. Newspapers.com.
  8. Web site: Cissie Stewart. 2020-07-31. Commonwealth Games Federation. en.
  9. Web site: Team Scotland's Medallists. 2020-07-31. Team Scotland. en.
  10. News: 1930-08-30. Scottish Athletes en Route Home. 8. Edmonton Journal. 2020-07-31. Newspapers.com.
  11. Web site: 2014-08-04. Strange Tales From The Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive. 2020-07-31. Sport Heritage. en.

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