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Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2014

In a planter, between the Rogers Centre and the Ripley's Aquarium, is this 1996 Toronto Historical Board plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.642100 -79.386950

Shortly after her birth in Russia, Fanny Rosenfeld's family immigrated to Canada, settling in Barrie, Ontario. Fanny (known as Bobbie) excelled at basketball, softball and hockey. She later held several Canadian track and field records and shared a world record for the 100 yard dash. At the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, the first year women were admitted to track and field competition, Bobbie captured a silver medal for the 100 metre dash and led the Canadian Women's Team to a gold medal in the 4 X 100 metre relay. When arthritis ended Bobbie's athletic career at the age of 29, she became a well-known sports writer, spending the years 1937-1957 as a columnist with the Globe and Mail. She was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1949 and was voted Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete of the first half-century in 1950.

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> Posted December 11, 2008
Fanny is my star!!

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