Ivy Lowman

Ivy Irene Lowman (9 December 1898 - September 1991 (or 1995)) was a British track and field athlete, being active during the 1920s. She was specialized in the high jump, hurdles and sprinting events.

Biography
Sports career
Representing the United Kingdom she participated at the 1922 Women's Olympiad in Monte Carlo. She won a gold medal in the pentathlon and with the British team also in the 4 x 175 m relay (with Nora Callebout, Mary Lines and Hornovsky). She won also the silver medal in the 250 meter, the silver medal in the 4 x 75 metres (with Mary Lines, Daisy Wright and Nora Callebout) and the bronze medal in the high jump event. At the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris she won the bronze medal in the high jump event. At the 1922 Brussels international women's athletics competitions, the first Belgian international women's competitions, she finished in both the 80 meters event and 300 meters event second behind British Nora Callebout.

Lowman won at the 1923 Women's Olympiad the gold medal in the 65 meters hurdles event and in the high jump event. The same year she also won the high jump at the 1923 France–Great Britain women's athletics competition. She set in the high jump a worlds best score of 1.47 meter. At the 1924 Women's Olympiad in London she won the bronze medal in the high jump event.

In 1923, at the 1923 WAAA Championships, the  first national track and field championships for women in the UK, she won the silver medal in the high jump behind Hilda Hatt. In 1924 she won the bronze medal

Personal life

Lowman was born in Edmonton, United Kingdom in 1898. She after studying she worked as a teacher at the Homerton College Cambridge. She taught maths, French language and music. She died in September 1991 in Worthing, United Kingdom. However one source states she died in 1995.

References

Category:1898 births
Category:1991 deaths
Category:British high jumpers
Category:British sprinters
Category:British hurdlers
Category:Pentathletes