Girl runner
By: Carrie Snyder
Publisher: Two Roads
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444792638; 9781444792645; 9781444792652; 9781444792669
Subjects: Women in sport; Social change; Fiction
Description: Aganetha Smart was a poor farm girl who could run like the wind. But this was rural Canada in the 1920's when girls didn't run, they didn't train, they didn't compete or dream of the Olympics and they certainly didn't win. Aganetha Smart was about to change all that.
Table of contents: title: "As a young runner, Aganetha Smart defied everyone's expectations to win a gold medal for Canada in the 1928 Olympics. It was a revolutionary victory, because this was the first Games in which women could compete in track events; title: and they did so despite opposition. But now Aganetha Smart is in a nursing home, and nobody realizes that the frail centenarian was once a bold pioneer"; title: Amazon.com.