Sophia Hope Gorham (1881–1969) was a British motorboat racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
[3] In 1906, at the age of 25, she married the 53-year-old John Marshall Gorham, an electrical engineer.
[3] Sophia and her husband John competed in the Mixed B Class event, which only had two entrants: their boat Quicksilver, and Gyrinus.
[3] After the race, The Times drew attention to Gorham as "an example of feminine endurance," however, she was identified in the Olympic record books solely as "Mrs Gorham," and her full name wasn't revealed until research was completed years later.
[3] John later died in 1929, and three years later she remarried, to Reverend Cuthred Compton, the Vicar of Hawkhurst, Kent.