Myrtle Cook

Myrtle Alice Cook (also competed as Myrtle McGowan) (January 5, 1902 – March 18, 1985) was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
==Career==
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she competed for Canada at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands where she won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres with her team mates 100 m silver medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, 100 m bronze medallist Ethel Smith and Jane Bell.
Cook was involved in ice hockey and served as president of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association prior to 1937.
Cook equalled Betty Robinson's Women's 100m World Record on August 1, 1931. She died in Elora, Ontario in 1985.
==References==
==External links==
*Library and Archives Canada: Myrtle Cook
Category:1902 births
Category:1985 deaths
Category:Executives