- Doris Storey
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Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for 
Great BritainEuropean Championships Silver 1938 London 200 m breaststroke Competitor for 
EnglandBritish Empire Games Gold 1938 Sydney 220 yd breaststroke Gold 1938 Sydney 3×110 yd medley Doris Storey (21 December 1919 – 21 October 2005) was an English breaststroke swimmer from Leeds who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics and for England at the 1938 British Empire Games.
In 1936 she finished sixth in the 200 metre breaststroke event having injured her arm in a fall before the final.
At the 1938 Empire Games in Sydney, Australia she won the gold medal in the 220 yards breaststroke competition. She was also a member of the English relay team which won the gold medal in the 3×110 yards medley contest.
External links
- "Doris Storey". Sports Reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/doris-storey-1.html.
- "Doris Storey". Yorkshire Post. 29 October 2005. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/community/obituaries/doris_storey_1_2538452.
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 200 m Breaststroke 1930 – 1934: 200 yards • 1938 – 1966: 220 yards • 1970 – 2010: 200 metres1930: Cecelia Wolstenholme (ENG) • 1934: Clare Dennis (AUS) • 1938: Doris Storey (ENG) • 1950 – 1954: Elenor Gordon (SCO) • 1958 – 1962: Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) • 1966: Jill Slattery (ENG) • 1970: Beverley Whitfield (AUS) • 1974: Pat Beavan (WAL) • 1978: Lisa Borsholt (CAN) • 1982: Anne Ottenbrite (CAN) • 1986: Allison Higson (CAN) • 1990: Nathalie Giguère (CAN) • 1994 – 1998: Samantha Riley (AUS) • 2002 – 2010: Leisel Jones (AUS)
Categories:- 1919 births
- 2005 deaths
- English swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Swimmers at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- People from Leeds
- British swimming biography stubs
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