Myrtle Cook

Born in Toronto, Ontario, she competed for Canada at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands where she won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres with her team mates Fanny Rosenfeld (also 100 m silver medallist), Ethel Smith (100 m bronze medallist) and Jane Bell.

[1] In 1929, Cook began a career writing for the Montreal Star, where she contributed the column "In the Women's Spotlight" for the next 40 years.

[1] During the Second World War, she was active in fundraising and assisted in training military recruits.

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Cook (left, #675), winning in a preliminary heat in the women's 100m race against Norma Wilson of New Zealand and Bets ter Horst of Netherlands on July 30, 1928 at the 1928 Summer Olympic Games.