Myrtle Cook


Competitor for Canada
of New Zealand and Bets ter Horst of Netherlands on July 30, 1928 at the 1928 Summer Olympic Games.
Myrtle Alice Cook 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 equalled Betty Robinson's Women's 100m World Record on August 1, 1931. She died in Elora, Ontario in 1985.