Betty Taylor was a Canadian Olympic athlete who competed in the hurdles event at the 1932 and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Elizabeth Gardner Taylor, daughter of Thomas Taylor & Elizabeth McIntyre, was born on 22 February 1916 in Oxford North, Ontario.[1]
In 1936, Taylor was awarded the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award and the Velma Springstead Trophy. She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic and McMaster Halls of Fame in 1968 and Athletics Ontario Hall of Fame in 2010.
After graduating from McMaster University in 1937, she taught English and Physical Education at Ottawa's High School of Commerce.[2][3]
On August 5, 1944, she married William F. (Bill) Campbell in Hamilton, Ontario.[4]
Betty died in 1977 and was survived by her husband, two children (Margaret and David), and a brother, William Taylor.[5]
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