Phyllis Dewar’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story
Intro Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist A.K.A. Phyllis Delma Dewar, Phyllis Lowery Was Athlete Swimmer From Canada Type Sports Gender female Birth 5 March 1916, Moose Jaw Death 8 April 1961, Toronto (aged 45 years) Phyllis Delma Dewar (March 5, 1916 – April 8, 1961), also known by her married name…
Intro Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist
A.K.A. Phyllis Delma Dewar, Phyllis Lowery
Was Athlete
Swimmer
From Canada
Type Sports
Gender female
Birth 5 March 1916, Moose Jaw
Death 8 April 1961, Toronto
(aged 45 years)
Phyllis Delma Dewar (March 5, 1916 – April 8, 1961), also known by her married name Phyllis Lowery, was a Canadian competition swimmer and freestyle specialist. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, she was a member of the Canadian relay team that finished fourth in the women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay. In the 100-metre freestyle, she advanced to the semifinals of the event before being eliminated.
In the 1934 British Empire Games in London, she won gold medals in the 100-yard and 440-yard freestyle events and in two relays. Four years later, at the 1938 Empire Games in Sydney, she won her fifth gold medal in the 4×110-yard freestyle relay,
She was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and died in Toronto, Ontario.
