Louise Alexander "Alix" Stevenson (née Jamieson; born 31 March 1942) is a Scottish retired athlete.
[3] Trained by the respected coach John Anderson,[4] Jamieson was a national champion in multiple events (as well as a Scotland international in field hockey)[5][2] and still holds the record for most golds won overall at the Scottish Athletics Championships[6] with 16 claimed over a decade between 1960 and 1970 (two in the 100-yard dash, three in the 80 metres hurdles, seven in the long jump and four in the pentathlon).
[2] Jamieson attended Hutcheson's Grammar School in Glasgow, and during her time there was awarded the nationwide 'Frances Barker Shield' for outstanding performance on three occasions.
[12][13] She is one of several talented sportspeople in her family: her father Andrew was a golfer who won the Scottish Amateur championship, represented Scotland[14] and Great Britain (Walker Cup)[15] in team play and briefly achieved fame when he unexpectedly beat Bobby Jones, one of the leading talents of the era;[16] her younger sister Jinty was also an athlete who competed alongside her in the 1970 Commonwealth Games;[17][18] her second cousin Jean Westwood was a multiple World champion in ice dancing; and her husband David Stevenson was a fellow competitor in the 1964 Olympics in the pole vault event.
[19][2] As the operators of a successful textile business (Edinburgh Woollen Mill), the Stevensons jointly-owned several National Hunt racehorses, with Gordon W. Richards as a trainer;[20] their Irish son-in-law Ger Lyons is also a successful racehorse trainer,[21][22] with his own daughter Kerri among his staff.