Cecil Smith (figure skater)

Cecil Smith
Full name	Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith
Born	(1908-09-14)September 14, 1908 Toronto
Figure skating career
Country	Canada
Skating club	Toronto Skating Club
Medal record Representing Canada Ladies' Figure skating World Championships 1930 New York Ladies' singles North American Championships 1933 New York Ladies' singles 1927 Toronto Ladies' singles 1925 Boston Ladies' singles

Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith (married name: Hedstrom, born September 14, 1908 in Toronto, died 1997) was a Canadian figure skater. In 1930, she won the silver medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in singles. She also competed in pairs with Melville Rogers.

Career

Her mother, Maude Delano-Osborne, won the 1892 Canadian tennis championship.

Smith was the first woman to represent Canada at a Winter Olympic games. She participated in the 1924 Winter Olympic Games, held in Chamonix, France. She was fifteen years old when she competed in figure skating at these games. In the women’s singles program, she finished in sixth place, two places ahead of Sonja Henie. In the pairs competition, she placed seventh.

She would win the Canadian championship in 1925 and 1926. In 1928, she would return to the Olympics and place fifth in the women’s singles program (Sonja Henie claimed the gold). In 1930, she would be the first Canadian to win a world championship figure skating medal as she took the silver at a competition in New York City.

Competitive highlights

Ladies' singles

Event	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933
Winter Olympics		6th				5th
World Championships								2nd
North American Championships			2nd		3rd						2nd
Canadian Championships	2nd		1st	1st	2nd		2nd		2nd		2nd

Pairs

(with Rogers)

Event	1923	1924
Winter Olympics		7th
Canadian Championships	3rd

(with Reburn)

Event	1931
Canadian Championships	3rd

References

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