Dora Gibbs
{{short description|British swimmer}}
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| birth_date = 6 July 1910
| birth_place = London, England
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Dora Elizabeth Gibbs (6 July 1910 – 4 July 2008) was a British swimmer. She competed in the women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gi/dora-gibbs-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042608/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gi/dora-gibbs-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Dora Gibbs Olympic Results |accessdate=10 September 2016}}
Gibbs, a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club, was a 17-year old working at Selfridges when she won the Olympic trial to represent Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite news|newspaper=West London Observer|date=6 July 1928|page=3|title=Young Swimming Champion}}
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Category:English female breaststroke swimmers
Category:British female breaststroke swimmers
Category:Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
Category:Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:People from Hackney, London
Category:Swimmers from the London Borough of Hackney
Category:20th-century English sportswomen
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