Cissie Stewart

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.

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Cissie Stewart, at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Cissie Stewart
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1928 Amsterdam 4×100 m freestyle
Representing  Scotland
British Empire Games
Bronze medal – third place 1930 Hamilton 400 yd freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1930 Hamilton 4×100 yd freestyle

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.[3]

See also

References
  1. Handley, L. de B. (31 December 1928). "Dundee Naiad Fine Prospect". The Boston Globe. p. 21. Retrieved 31 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Thomson, David (31 March 2006). "Olympic Swimmer (August 1928)". Bygone Dundee. Archived from the original on 13 August 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  3. "Sarah (Cissie) Gillow Marshall Stewart". The Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  4. Brown, John (13 November 2017). "BLETHER WITH BROWN: Dundee's best swimmer revealed". Evening Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  5. "Sporting Witness: Lady Swimmers of the 1920s", BBC News (9 December 2011).
  6. Williams, Jean (2020). Britain's Olympic Women: A History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-16320-9.
  7. "Dives and Splashes". The Boston Globe. 17 August 1929. p. 10. Retrieved 31 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Cissie Stewart". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  9. "Team Scotland's Medallists". Team Scotland. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  10. "Scottish Athletes en Route Home". Edmonton Journal. 30 August 1930. p. 8. Retrieved 31 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Strange Tales From The Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive". Sport Heritage. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
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