Dorothy Harrison
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Full name | Dorothy Elizabeth Harrison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 16 March 1950 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 51 kg (112 lb; 8.0 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Hartlepool SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dorothy Elizabeth Harrison (born 16 March 1950) is a retired English international swimmer.
Swimming career
[edit]She represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and European championships and won a bronze medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1970 European Aquatics Championships.[1] She competed in five breaststroke and medley relay events at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics; her best achievements were sixth place in the 4×100-metre medley relay in 1968 and eighth place in the 100-metre breaststroke in 1972.[2] In the medley relay she competed with Margaret Auton, Wendy Burrell and Alexandra Jackson.[3]
She also represented England and won three silver medals in the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke events and the 4 x 100 metres medley relay, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4][5][6]
At the ASA National British Championships she won the 100 metres breaststroke title in 1971 [7] and the 220 yards/200 metres breaststroke titles in 1969, 1970 and 1971.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ Dorothy HARRISON. les-sports.info
- ^ Dorothy Harrison. sports-reference.com
- ^ Medley relay results, Sports reference
- ^ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Fox, Norman. "Swimming." Times, 9 Aug. 1971, p. 9". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""Swimming." Times, 11 Aug. 1969, p. 9". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""Swimming." Times, 10 Aug. 1970, p. 10". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Fox, Norman. "Brinkley on target, June Green aims high." Times, 6 Aug. 1971, p. 8". Times Digital Archive.
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- British female breaststroke swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- English female breaststroke swimmers
- Sportspeople from County Durham
- 20th-century English sportswomen