Ethel Raby
{{short description|English track and field athlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Ethel Davies
(née Ethel Raby)
| image =Ethel Raby, Barbara Burke 1938.jpg
| image_size =270px
| caption = Raby (left) at the 1938 British Empire Games
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| birth_place = London
| death_date = 30 March 2008 (aged 93)
| death_place = Wellington, New Zealand
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| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprint, hurdles, long jump
| pb =LJ – 5.80 m (1937)[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=2213&Gender=W Ethel Raby]. trackfield.brinkster.net
| club = Middlesex Ladies' Athletic Club
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{{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}
{{MedalSilver | 1938 Sydney | Long jump }}
{{MedalSilver | 1938 Sydney | 4×110/220 yd }}
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Ethel Mabel Raby, married name Davies[http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=179204140&d=bmd_1397800578 Ethel Raby]. FreeBMD (8 October 1914 – 30 March 2008),[http://www.familytreecircles.com/davies-buried-bolton-street-karori-wellington-51844.html DAVIES buried Bolton St, Makara & Karori Wellington]. familytreecircles.com was an English athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games.
Biography
At the 1938 British Empire Games, Raby won silver medals in the long jump and 220-110-220-110 yards relay; in the 100 yards and 80 metre hurdles events she was eliminated in the heats. Later that year she competed in the 1938 European Championships in Athletics and finished fourth in the long jump.
Raby married swimmer Goldup Davies in late 1939. Davies also competed at the same 1938 British Empire Games and was an Olympian in 1948.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000566/19460714/008/0001 |title=The Champ had to mind the bairns |work=Sunday Post |date=14 July 1946 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2024 }}
Raby became the national long jump champion after winning won the British WAAA Championships title at the 1935 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19350810/088/0010 |title=Athletics |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=10 August 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000729/19350811/019/0019 |title=Women's Record |work=The People |date=11 August 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 December 2024 }} She went on to successfully defend her title every year from 1936 to 1939 and regained the title at the 1946 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19460715/054/0003 |title=Women's Titles Change Hands |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=15 July 1946 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=18 December 2024 }}
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Category:English female sprinters
Category:British female sprinters
Category:English female long jumpers
Category:British female long jumpers
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Category:Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games
Category:20th-century English sportswomen
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