Irene MacDonald
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| Born |
November 22, 1931 Hamilton, Ontario | |||||||||||||
| Died | June 20, 2002 (aged 70) | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||
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Irene Margaret MacDonald, OBC (November 22, 1931 – June 20, 2002) was a Canadian athlete, sports executive and broadcaster from Hamilton, Ontario.[1] She won Canada's first-ever Olympic diving medal, a bronze, at the 1956 Summer Games.
She won a Bronze medal in 3 Metres Springboard Diving at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and a Silver medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. She also competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
She was a broadcaster for CBC television covering diving events from the 1976 Summer Olympics through to the 1988 Summer Olympics.
In 1991, she was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia. She is a member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.
References
- ↑ "Famous Canadian Women Athletes". Retrieved 2007-01-23.
- Allan Woods (July 23, 2002). "Irene MacDonald: Canada's 'queen of the springboard'". The Globe and Mail. p. R9.