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Timeline
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1904
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Born Fanny Rosenfeld in Dneipropetrovsk, Russia
on December 28
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1905
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Family
immigrates to Barrie, Ontario
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1922
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Wins first trophy at Great War Veterans
Association Track Meet; family moves to Toronto;
begins work
at Patterson Chocolate
factory and
joins their company sponsored Pats Athletic
Club
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1923
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Gains international fame at the Canadian
National
Exhibition
by defeating the world record holder in the
100 meter dash; earns reputation as the
world’s greatest
female all-around
athlete as
she excels on championship basketball, hockey and
softball
teams over the next ten years
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1924
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Wins Toronto Ladies Grass Court Tennis title
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1925
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Wins shot put, the 220 yard dash, long jump, 120
yard low hurdles and discus, and places second at
javelin and the 100 yard dash all in just one day
at the Ontario Ladies Track and Field Points
Championship
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1928
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Leads her team to a gold medal in the 400
meter relay, wins a silver medal for the
100
meter dash, and runs fifth in the
800
meter, a race for which she had not even
trained, at the first Olympic games to admit
women to track and field competition
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1929
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Struck suddenly by severe arthritis, she is
bedridden for 8 months, then forced to use
crutches
for a year
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1931
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Returns to hockey and softball upon recovering;
leads the league in home runs and is voted the
outstanding woman hockey player in Ontario
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1933
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Forced to retire from sports after a second
attack of arthritis at the age of only 29; coaches
track and softball; works as a sports columnist for
the Montreal Herald
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1937
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Begins almost 20 years of writing the column
"Sports
Reel" for
the Toronto Globe and Mail; uses her column to
advocate
for women in athletics as well as
covering a wide range of sports
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1949
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Among the first inductees into Canada’s
Sports Hall of Fame at its opening
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1950
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Selected as Canada’s Female Athlete of the
Half-Century
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1957
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Retires as columnist; becomes Globe and Mail
Public Relations Manager
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1966
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Leaves the Globe and Mail due to illness
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1969
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Dies in Toronto on November 14 at age 65
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1981
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Elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall
of Fame
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1996
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Canadian Postal Service issues Bobbie Rosenfeld
stamp
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