Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith ( English Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith ); (August 14, 1883 - September 18, 1941), also known as Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith ( Eng. Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith ) and Gladys Lamplug ( Eng. Gladys Lamplough ) (after marriage) - British tennis player . [2] She was awarded a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. [3]
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Early life
Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith was born in Sydenham, Lewisham , Kent on August 14, 1883. She was the daughter of Charles Eastlake Smith and Lizzie Smith (née Cooper). [2] [4] Her father played in the football team for England in 1876 at the UK Championship. [5] [6] [7]
Sports career
She won the competitions held by the All-England club of lawn tennis and croquet in mixed doubles in 1905 together with Reginald Doherty (in the hall tournament). She won the tournament in Monte Carlo in 1906, 1907 and 1908, also won the mixed doubles of the London Women's Tennis Tournament in October 1906 and in 1907, and reached the final of the competition in October 1907. She won the All-England club mixed doubles competition (also an indoor tournament) for the second time in 1908 with Anthony Wilding . In the same year she was awarded a gold medal in the women's singles hall tournament at the Olympic Games in London. She beat the Englishwoman Violet Pinckney with a score of 7-5, 7-5 in the quarter finals, the Swedish Elsa Wallenberg with a score of 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals, and the Englishwoman Alice Green with a score of 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 in finale.
Two days after winning the Olympics, Gladys married Warram Henry Lamplug, a doctor and surgeon. She entered the semifinals of the women's singles at the Wimbledon tournament, already being married, in 1908 and 1910, and won the women's singles champion title at the Royal Games in 1910. She won the competition "Mixed marriage" in 1913 with her husband. Her last exit was a performance in the women's singles at the Wimbledon tournament in 1921.
Notes
- ↑ ITF website
- ↑ 1 2 Lewisham Herald, Lewisham's Olympic Heroes (link not available)
- ↑ Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith Olympic Results . sports-reference.com . Date of treatment January 30, 2014.
- ↑ 1891 Census of Isle of Wight, RG12 / 895, Folio 121, Page 48, Gladys SE Smith, Age 7, Relation: Daughter.
- ↑ Charles Eastlake Smith
- ↑ 1891 Census of Isle of Wight, RG12 / 895, Folio 121, Page 48, Charles E Smith, Age 40, Occupation: Manager to a Manufacturer.
- ↑ Her father Charles Eastlake Smith had been born in Colombo, Ceylon in 1950, the footballer Charles Eastlake Smith had been born in Colombo, Ceylon in 1950.
Links
- Biography on the British Olympic Association website
- Winners of Olympic medals, 1896-1996 , The Times magazine