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Gwendoline Alice Porter (25 April 1902 – 29 August 1993)[1] was a British track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She was born in Ilford, London. She worked in the head office of an insurance company.

Gwendoline Porter

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Women's World Games
	1922 Paris	4×110 yd
Olympic Games
	1932 Los Angeles	4×100 m relay

In 1922 she participated at the Women's Olympiad in Paris and won the gold medal in the 4×110 yds relay (with Mary Lines, Nora Callebout, Daisy Leach and Porter as fourth runner) setting a new world record.

In 1932 she was one of five women entered by the Women's Amateur Athletic Association at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics as Britain's first female Olympians in athletics events, together with Ethel Johnson, Eileen Hiscock, Nellie Halstead, and seventeen-year-old Violet Webb. They sailed for five days from Southampton to Quebec and then travelled a further 3000 miles by train before arriving in Los Angeles.[2] In the 4 x 100 metres women's relay she won the bronze medal with her teammates Eileen Hiscock, Violet Webb (replacing the injured Johnson) and Nellie Halstead. In the women's 100 metres she came 4th in her heat.

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- [en] Gwendoline Porter

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[fr] Gwendoline Porter

Gwendoline Alice « Gwen » Porter (née le 25 avril 1902 à Ilford et décédé le 29 août 1993 à Battle[1]) est une athlète britannique spécialiste du 100 mètres. Elle était affiliée au London Olympiades.

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[it] Gwendoline Porter

Gwendoline Porter (Ilford, 25 aprile 1902 – Battle, 29 agosto 1993) è stata una velocista britannica, vincitrice della medaglia di bronzo nella staffetta 4×100 metri ai Giochi olimpici di Los Angeles nel 1932.

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