Louise Fawcett

Louise Fawcett (1904 − 1990) was a British javelin and discus thrower. Fawcett was educated at Hammersmith Technical School and married Leslie Leon Stenning in 1937. As a member of the British Athletic Team she participated in a number of international competitions including the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale second Women's World Games in Sweden (1926), in Brussels (1927), England, Prague, Berlin (1930), Birmingham, London and Barcelona (1936).

Achievements

• Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale Women's World Games: silver at javelin throw^[1]
• English Championship Javelin Record 1926 & 1931^[2]
• English Championship Discus Record 1930^[2]
• Middlesex County Javelin Championship 1931 - 33
• Middlesex County Discus Championship 1931 - 33
• British Javelin Champion 1926 - 31
• British Javelin Record Holder 1926 - 30 (103 ft 7in or 49.1744m)
• British Discus Champion 1930
• British Discus Record Holder 1930 - 33 (106 ft 11 ¹⁄₂in or 61.5188m)
• Middlesex County Javelin Record Holder 1931 - 34
• Middlesex County Discus Champion 1931 - 35
• Middlesex County Discus Record Holder 1931 - 35
• Middlesex County Shot Putt Champion 1934 - 35
• Second in Women's Amateur Athletic Association Indoor Shot Putt Championship 1935 - 36
• Southern Counties Javelin Champion 1932 - 34
• Southern Counties Javelin Record Holder 1932 - 34
• Southern Counties Discus Champion 1935
• Southern Counties Discus Record Holder 1935
• Middlesex Championships 1936; First in Javelin, First in Shot Putt, Second in Discus
• Southern Counties Championships 1936; Record for Javelin (103 ft 5 ³⁄₄in)
• Member of the Empire Games Team, London 1934

A Photograph taken circa 1926 Polytechnic of Central London

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