Audrey Brown (athlete)
{{Short description|British sprinter (1913–2005)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
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| name = Audrey Brown
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprints
| club = Birmingham University AC
Birchfield Harriers
| birth_date = 24 May 1913
| birth_place = Bankura, West Bengal, India
| death_date = 11 June 2005 (aged 92)
| death_place = Manchester, England
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{{MedalSport | Athletics}}
{{MedalCountry |the {{GBR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver | 1936 Berlin | 4x100 metre relay}}
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Audrey Kathleen Kilner Brown MBE (later Court; 24 May 1913 – 11 June 2005) was a British athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.
Personal life
She was born in Bankura, India and was the younger sister of Ralph Kilner Brown and older sister of Godfrey Brown.{{cite ODNB| title= Court [née Brown], Audrey Kathleen| id=96973}} At the age of nine, Brown moved to the United Kingdom. She studied at the University of Birmingham. In 1940, she married William Court.
Career
Whilst at University, Brown competed for the Birchfield Harriers. She competed at the 1933 World Student Games.
Brown finished third behind Barbara Burke in the 100 metres event at the 1936 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19360720/388/0007 |title=Women Champions |work=The Scotsman |date=20 July 1936 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=24 January 2025 }} Shortly afterwards she competed for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany, where she won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres with her teammates Eileen Hiscock, Violet Olney and Barbara Burke.{{cite web| url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/audrey-brown-1.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003313/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/audrey-brown-1.html| url-status= dead| archive-date= 18 April 2020| title= Audrey Brown| publisher=Sports Reference| accessdate=26 April 2020}}
Brown finished third behind Betty Lock and third behind Dorothy Saunders in the 100 and 200 metres events respectively at the 1938 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19380704/465/0012 |title=Records by Women |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=4 July 1938 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=24 January 2025 }}
After retiring from athletics in 1938, Brown was an employee of Rowntree's Cocoa Works in York.
References
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- [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=634 Profile]
- [http://www.nuts.org.uk/trackstats/audreybrown.htm Track Stats – Audrey Brown]
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Category:British female sprinters
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:British sportspeople in British India
Category:Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Olympic female sprinters
Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham
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