| 词条 | Vera Searle |
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|name= Vera Searle |nickname= |image = |image_size = |caption= |birth_date= 25 August 1901 |birth_place= Leytonstone, London, England |death_date = 12 September 1998 |death_place = Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England |sport= Athletics |event= 250 metres |club= |coach= |alma_mater= |pb={{ubl|250 m: 35.4 (1923, WR) |250 m: 33.8 (1925, WR) }} |show-medals = yes |medaltemplates ={{MedalCountry|{{GBR}}}}{{MedalCompetition|Women's World Games}}{{MedalSilver|1926 Gothenburg|250 metres}} }} Vera Maud Searle {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (née Palmer; 25 August 1901 – 12 September 1998) was a British sprinter and athletics administrator. She was born in Leytonstone, London, on 25 August 1901 [1] to Albert Palmer (1878 - 1935), assistant secretary of Chelsea Football Club,[2] and Maud Mary Palmer (1879 - 1946). She was the eldest of four children. In 1923 she co-founded the Middlesex Ladies Athletics Club, now the Ealing Southall & Middlesex Athletics Club. Later the same year, she participated at the first WAAA Championships taking bronze medal in running 220 yards. Competing as Vera Palmer, she set a world record at 250 metres of 35.4 seconds in 1923 Paris and in 1925, again set a world record at 250 metres of 33.8 seconds at Stamford Bridge.[3] In 1924 she participated at the 1924 Women's Olympiad and won the silver medal in running 250 m and the gold medal in the relay 4 x 220 yards. In August 1926, she won silver in the 250m at the 1926 Women's World Games, held at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.[3] In October 1926, she married Wilfred Edwin Searle, and they had two daughters together; Brenda born 1928 and Angela born 1935.[1] She was honorary secretary of the Women's Amateur Athletic Association (WAAA) from 1930 to 1933, vice-chairman from 1959 to 1973, chairman from 1973 to 1981, and later president until the WAAA merged with the Amateur Athletic Association in 1991.[3] She received the OBE in 1979 for services to athletics.[3] She died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 12 September 1998.[3] References1. ^1 {{cite news|author=Adam Szreter |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-vera-searle-1176984.html |title=Obituary: Vera Searle | Culture |newspaper=The Independent |date=8 October 1998 |accessdate=2016-07-17}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Searle, Vera}}{{UK-stub}}2. ^{{Cite book|title=A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One: Sporting Women, 1850-1960|last=Williams|first=Jean|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=|location=|pages=134}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|last1=Watman|first1=Mel|title=Women athletes between the world wars (act. 1919–1939) : Vera Maud Palmer|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/103699|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=23 October 2017|date=May 2012}} 6 : 1901 births|1998 deaths|British female sprinters|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|People from Leytonstone|Women's World Games medalists |
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