Claudette Masdammer

{{short description|Guyanese sprinter}}

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| nationality = Guyanese

| sport = Sprinting

| event = 100 metres

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Claudette Masdammer (30 March 1939 – 13 November 2013) was a Guyanese sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres and women's 200 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics. She was the first woman to represent Guyana at the Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/lists/99/manual |title=First female competitors at the Olympics by country |work=Olympedia |accessdate=14 June 2020}} She also competed in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/claudette-masdammer-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418095524/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/claudette-masdammer-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Claudette Masdammer Olympic Results |accessdate=16 June 2017}}