fullname death_date club death_place birth_place image_size birth_date alt image article_title strokes name nicknames
isabella mary moore 7 march 1975 premier club baltimore , maryland , united states glasgow , scotland , united kingdom 220 23 october 1894 '' moore in 1914 '' bellemoorelarge.jpg belle moore
 freestyle belle moore `` belle ''
belle moore

isabella `` belle '' mary moore -lrb- 23 october 1894 -- 7 march 1975 -rrb- , later known by her married name belle cameron , was a scottish competition swimmer who represented great britain in the olympics .
at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden , moore won a gold medal as a member of the first-place british women 's team in the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay , together with teammates jennie fletcher , annie speirs and irene steer .
the british women set a new world record in the event of 5:52.8 , beating the german and austrian women 's relay teams by a wide margin .
swedish king gustav v presented moore and her teammates with their gold medals and olympic laurels .
moore was trained as a longer-distance swimmer , but only 100-metre swimming events were available for women at the 1912 olympics ; she was eliminated in the semi-finals of the women 's 100-metre freestyle .
at 17 years and 226 days old , she remains the youngest british woman to win an olympic gold medal ; she is also the only scottish woman to win an olympic gold medal in swimming .
moore was born the eighth child of nine in her family .
she started training in early age and by 17 already worked as a swimming instructor .
in 1919 , she married george cameron , a naval architect ; together they moved to maryland , united states , where moore gave birth to a daughter , doris , and son , george .
she spent the rest of her life in maryland where she taught swimming to thousands of children .
she was posthumously inducted into the international swimming hall of fame as an `` honor pioneer swimmer '' in 1989 .
