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Lucy Morton

Lucy Morton

British swimmer

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]

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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]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Lucy Morton". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    Win Hayes, "Morton, Lucy (1898–1980)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (October 2007). Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Lucy Morton (GBR)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
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