Camille Sabie
{{short description|American track and field athlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
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|image =Camille Sabie 1922.jpg
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|caption=Sabie at the 1922 Women's World Games
|birth_date= November 25, 1902
|birth_place= Newark, New Jersey, United States
| death_date = March 20, 1998 (aged 95)
| death_place = Millburn, New Jersey, United States
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|sport=Athletics
|event= Long jump, hurdles
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|pb= LJ – 4.96 m (1922)
100 ydH – 14.4 (1922)
|alma_mater= Newark Normal School
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Camille Sabie (November 25, 1902 – March 20, 1998) was an American athlete who represented the United States in several events at the 1922 Women's World Games, and won gold medals in the 110-yard hurdles and standing long jump and a bronze medal in the conventional long jump.
Early life
Sabie was born November 25, 1902, in Newark, New Jersey, to David and Angelina Sabie.{{Cite web|title=United States Census, 1910|website = FamilySearch|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RVT-9BX?i=9&cc=1727033&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMKTP-51C}}{{Cite web|title=Ancestry.com. U.S., Passport Applications, 1795–1925 [database on-line].|website = Ancestry.com|url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/413930:1174}} She graduated from East Side High School, where she was encouraged to be a track star by her parents.{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Star-Ledger|date=2012-01-29|title=Glimpse of History: Woman athletes make history in 1922|url=https://www.nj.com/news/local/2012/01/glimpse_of_history_woman_athle.html|access-date=2021-12-29|website=nj|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Camille Sabie TF|url=https://www.njsportsheroes.com/camillesabietf.html|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.njsportsheroes.com}} Sabie enrolled in Newark Normal School (since renamed as Kean University) and showed was a star in track, especially hurdles.
1922 Women's World Games
Tryouts were held May 13, 1922, at Oaksmere School in Mamaroneck, New York. At tryouts, Sabie broke the world record for the 100 yard hurdle and came in second in the 50-yard dash.{{Cite news|date=1922-05-15|title=Girl Normal Student Breaks Hurdle Record|work=Newark Evening News|url=https://www.digifind-it.com/IDIViewer/web/viewer.html?file=/newark/data/newspapers/newark-evening-news/1919-1923/1922/1922-05-15.pdf}} The Games were held on August 20, 1922, and the team placed second.{{Cite news|title=American Girl Athletes are Second in Olympics|page=1|work=Newark Evening News|url=https://www.digifind-it.com/IDIViewer/web/viewer.html?file=/newark/data/newspapers/newark-evening-news/1919-1923/1922/1922-08-21.pdf}} Sabie established another world record in the 100-yard hurdles and also won the standing broad jump. She came in third in the running broad jump. Sabie received a hero's welcome when coming home to Newark, greeted by a crowd of over one thousand.
Later life
After a few more competitions the same year, Sabie taught at Ann Street School.{{Cite book|last=Raichle|first=Donald Roderic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igVZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22camille+sabie%22+newark+schools|title=From a Normal Beginning: The Origins of Kean College of New Jersey|date=1980|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-4500-0|language=en}} She earned a degree in elementary education from Newark Normal School and then moved to Hawkins Street School where she met her husband George Malbrock, who was later principal of Madison Avenue School.{{Cite news|last=Dumenigo|first=Argelio|date=1998-03-22|title=Camille S Malbrook, 95|work=Star Ledger|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-NB&t=&sort=YMD_date%3AD&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=20&val-base-0=%22camille%20sabie%22&docref=image/v2%3A14245EE216D1AED8%40EANX-NB-17112782F5DB4753%402450895-1710E4E3C566DEA4%4040-1710E4E3C566DEA4%40}} She married George Malbrock in 1930.{{Cite book|last=Reclaim The Records|url=http://archive.org/details/NJ_Marriage_Index_Brides_1930-1935_R-Z|title=New Jersey Marriage Index (Brides) – 1930–1935 – Surnames R-Z|date=1930|publisher=Reclaim The Records}} Their daughter, Jane Malbrock, was born in 1946 and was a professor of mathematics at Kean University.{{Cite web|title=US Public Records|url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/274226072:1788|access-date=2021-12-31|website=www.ancestry.com}}
Camille Malbrock is listed from at least 1942 through 1963 in yearbooks as a physical education teacher at East Side High School, and taught for 35 years {{Cite web|title=Newark High School Yearbooks|url=https://npl.org/yearbooks/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Newark Public Library|language=en}}
A longtime resident of Millburn, New Jersey,Johnson, Judy. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67074418/sabie-recalls-days-as-pioneer-athlete/ "Town resident recalls days as 'pioneer' Olympic athlete"], The Item of Millburn and Short Hills, December 31, 1981. Accessed December 29, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Camille Sabie Malbrock now a resident of Oval Road, was one of the women pioneers who that year demonstrated that the 'weaker sex' had a proud place on the athletic field." Sabie died March 20, 1998.
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Category:American female long jumpers
Category:American female hurdlers
Category:East Side High School (Newark, New Jersey) alumni
Category:Kean University alumni
Category:Sportspeople from Millburn, New Jersey
Category:Track and field athletes from Newark, New Jersey