Olive Bartle Explained

Olive Bartle
Birth Date:10 September 1912
Birth Place:Lewisham
Death Date:10 April 1994 (aged 81)
Death Place:Hackney

Olive Mary Bartle (1912-1994)[1] was female swimmer who competed for England.[2]

Diving career

Bartle won a bronze medal in the 4×110 yard freestyle relay at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.[3]

Bartle was the southern counties 220 yards freestyle champion and represented England in the 1934 European Games in Magdeburg. She swam for the Kingston & Croydon Swimming Clubs.[4]

Personal life

She married Ralph Banfield in 1937.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Births. Free BMD.
  2. Web site: Downstream: A History and Celebration of Swimming the River Thames (2015). Publicism.
  3. Web site: Swimmers powered by Bovril. August 2012 . Senate House Library.
  4. Web site: SIGNED OLIVE BARTLE KINGSTON CROYDON SC ENGLAND EUROPEAN EMPIRE GAMES 1934. Worth Point.