Lucy Morton
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Lucy Morton | ||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1898-02-23)23 February 1898 Knutsford, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 26 August 1980(1980-08-26) (aged 82) Blackpool, England | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Lucy Morton (23 February 1898 – 26 August 1980), later known by her married name Lucy Heaton, was an English competition swimmer who represented Great Britain at the 1924 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke event.[1]
Morton was born in 1898 at New Tatton in Cheshire, her father Alfred was in domestic service as a groom.[2] The family moved to Blackpool and by the age of 10 Morton had joined the local amateur swimming club.[2] By 1920 Morton held the world record for the 200-yard breaststroke and in 1924 was chosen to be part of the British team at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[2] Morton won the women's 200-metre breaststroke race, and became the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal for swimming in an individual (non-relay) event.[2]
Morton retired from competitive swimming after the Olympics and married Harry Heaton in 1927.[2] She continued supporting swimming events for the rest of her life serving as a competitors' steward when she was aged 72.[2] She died in Blackpool in 1980. She was inducted posthumously into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Pioneer Swimmer" in 1988.[3]
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
References
- ^ "Lucy Morton". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Win Hayes, "Morton, Lucy (1898–1980)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (October 2007). Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Lucy Morton (GBR)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
External links
- Lucy Morton at databaseOlympics.com
- v
- t
- e
- 1924: Lucy Morton (GBR)
- 1928: Hilde Schrader (GER)
- 1932: Clare Dennis (AUS)
- 1936: Hideko Maehata (JPN)
- 1948: Nel van Vliet (NED)
- 1952: Éva Székely (HUN)
- 1956: Ursula Happe (EUA)
- 1960: Anita Lonsbrough (GBR)
- 1964: Galina Prozumenshchikova (URS)
- 1968: Sharon Wichman (USA)
- 1972: Beverley Whitfield (AUS)
- 1976: Marina Kosheveya (URS)
- 1980: Lina Kačiušytė (URS)
- 1984: Anne Ottenbrite (CAN)
- 1988: Silke Hörner (GDR)
- 1992: Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN)
- 1996: Penny Heyns (RSA)
- 2000: Ágnes Kovács (HUN)
- 2004: Amanda Beard (USA)
- 2008: Rebecca Soni (USA)
- 2012: Rebecca Soni (USA)
- 2016: Rie Kaneto (JPN)
- 2020: Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA)