Gladys Daniell
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| birth_date = 8 November 1884
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| death_place = Bournemouth, England
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Gladys Daniell (8 November 1884 – 26 July 1962) was a British fencer. She competed at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/gladys-daniell-1.html |title=Gladys Daniell Olympic Results |accessdate=25 March 2010 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025205512/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/gladys-daniell-1.html |archivedate=25 October 2012}}
Fencing career
Daniell was a member of the Ladies' London Fencing Club and a member of Queen Alexandra's House Gymnasium in London.{{cite news |title=Fencing Fixtures |work=The Globe |issue=37046 |date=16 March 1914 |page=6}}
In 1911, Daniell won the Amateur Fencing Association's Ladies' Fencing Championship.{{cite news |title=The Ladies' Amateur Foil Championship |work=The Mail |issue=8063 |date=17 May 1912 |page=6}} In 1912, Daniell won the third International Championship of the Stockholm Ladies' Fencing Club. The same year, she competed again at the Ladies' Fencing Championship, defending her title after a tie with A. B. Walker and C. A. Walker. She was awarded a gold and platinum brooch as her prize.
Daniell entered the Ladies' Fencing Championship again in 1921, gaining her third title in the competition.{{cite news |title=The Ladies' Foil Championship |work=Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |issue=2589 |date=28 April 1923 |page=382}} She competed in the championship again in 1923.
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Category:British female fencers
Category:Olympic fencers for Great Britain
Category:Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Category:People from Wandsworth
Category:Sportspeople from the London Borough of Wandsworth
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