Elsie Maguire
{{Short description|British athlete}}
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{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Elsie Maguire
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprints
| club = London Olympiades AC
| birth_date = 7 August 1908
| birth_place = Kensington, London
| death_date = 16 August 1989 (aged 81)
| death_place = Brent, London, England
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{{MedalSport | Women's Athletics}}
{{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}
{{MedalGold| 1934 London | 3×110/220 yd}}
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Elsie Evelin Shaw ({{née}} Maguire, 7 August 1908 – 16 August 1989) was an English athlete who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games.
Biography
Maguire was born in August 1908 in Kensington, London. She married William Frederick Shaw in June 1935 in Hackney, London.[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/914050266:1623?tid=&pid=&queryId=bbccfdf3ab9b5deefdb13890d49aeda2&_phsrc=OzZ14857&_phstart=successSource Elsie Evelyn Maguire in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1936]
Maguire inished second behind Eileen Hiscock in the 100 metres event at the 1934 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003359/19340701/600/0021 |title=Women's A.A.A. Titles |work=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=1 July 1934 |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 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=24 January 2025 }}
At the 1934 Empire Games she was a member of the England relay team which won the gold medal in the 110-220-110 yards event. In the 100 yards competition she finished fourth.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/london-1934/athletes |title=London 1934 Team |website=Team England |access-date=24 January 2025 }}
Shaw died in Brent, London in 1989 at the age of 81.[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7579&h=8581714&tid=&pid=&queryId=be1100840309db8d5bf7bf148be730d0&usePUB=true&_phsrc=OzZ14859&_phstart=successSource Elsie Evelyn Shaw in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007]
References
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External links
- [http://www.topsinathletics.com/default.asp?page=msp&id=85536120 Profile] at TOPS in athletics
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