Evelyn Goshawk

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Evelyn Verdin Goshawk (19 March 1916 – 25 October 1994) was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the long jump event.

Biography

= Life =

Evelyn Goshawk was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 19 March 1916 to George Edward Goshawk and May Evelyn Verdin, both of whom were English immigrants. She married Alfred LeFevre in 1939, and died in Burnaby, British Columbia on 25 October 1994.{{Cite web |last=Goldsborough |first=Gordon |last2=Thomas |first2=Carolyne |date=2 January 2019 |title=Memorable Manitobans: Evelyn Verdin Goshawk (1916-1994) |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/goshawk_ev.shtml |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=Manitoba Historical Society}}

= Career =

Goshawk participated in women's long jump in the British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games) in 1934, where she earned a silver medal, with Phyllis Bartholomew taking the gold.{{Cite web |title=Athletics Long Jump - Women London 1934 {{!}} Commonwealth Games Federation |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3030/event/1506 |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=thecgf.com |language=en |archive-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425191829/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3030/event/1506 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book|last=Hall|first=M. Ann|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936220422|title=The Girl and the Game: a History of Women's Sport in Canada|year=2016|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-3413-8|edition=2|location=Toronto|pages=130|oclc=936220422|access-date=8 May 2022}} In 1938, she came fourth, behind Decima Norman, Ethel May Raby, and Thelma Peake.{{Cite web |title=Evelyn Goshawk {{!}} Commonwealth Games Federation |url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/41395 |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=thecgf.com}}{{Cite web |title=Athletics Long Jump - Women Sydney 1938 {{!}} Commonwealth Games Federation |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3031/event/1506 |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=thecgf.com |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419191057/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3031/event/1506 |url-status=dead }} She was the first Manitoban woman to compete for Canada in any international sporting competition.{{Cite news |last=Armstrong |first=E. A. |date=9 July 1934 |title=In the Realm of Sport |pages=7 |work=Winnipeg Free Press |url=https://archives.winnipegfreepress.com/winnipeg-free-press/1934-07-09/page-7/ |access-date=8 May 2022}}