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Queenie Newall

1854 - 1929

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Sybil Fenton Newall (17 October 1854 – 24 June 1929), best known as Queenie Newall, was an English archer who won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. She was 53 years old at the time, still the oldest female gold medal winner at the Olympic Games. Great Britain did not win another women's archery medal at the Olympics until 2004. She joined the Cheltenham Archers Club in 1905 and was national champion twice in 1911 and 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Queenie Newall is the 1,175th most popular athlete (up from 1,706th in 2019), the 4,219th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,018th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Queenie Newall ranks 1,175 out of 6,025. Before her are Otto Fickeisen, Niels Fredborg, Oscar Osthoff, Olaf Hoffsbakken, Linda Watson, and Andy Stanfield. After her are Marjorie Clark, Siegfried Purner, Piero D'Inzeo, Irina Beglyakova, Béla Békessy, and Vasile Dîba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Queenie Newall ranks 112. Before her are David Dunbar Buick, Gerhard Louis De Geer, Teuku Umar, Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Hermann Oldenberg, and Jan Sztolcman. After her are Takamine Jōkichi, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Dukinfield Henry Scott, William C. Gorgas, Gottlieb Haberlandt, and Rafael López Gutiérrez. Among people deceased in 1929, Queenie Newall ranks 126. Before her are Ted Wilde, Olav Aukrust, Henry Scott Tuke, David Dunbar Buick, István Lichteneckert, and Antoni Lange. After her are Edward Carpenter, Ödön Tersztyánszky, Karel van de Woestijne, Juan Antonio Escurra, Franciszek Rychnowski, and Otto Liebe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Queenie Newall ranks 4,220 out of 8,785. Before her are Jake Weber (1963), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Saffron Burrows (1972), Sandy Denny (1947), Michael Hurst (1957), and Elizabeth Spriggs (1929). After her are Roland Orzabal (1961), William Warham (1450), Ray Wilson (1934), Richard Gunn (1871), Florence Pugh (1996), and Norman Smith (1923).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Queenie Newall ranks 47. Before her are Gladys Davis (1893), Peter Kemp (1878), Jack Broughton (1703), Robert Kerr (1882), Muriel Freeman (1897), and Jack Beresford (1899). After her are Richard Gunn (1871), Richard Meade (1938), Tommy Green (1894), Jessica Ennis-Hill (1986), Sonia Robertson (1947), and Sidney Robinson (1876).

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