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Annie Broadbent - Gymnastics An archive charting the gymnastic career of British Olympian, Annie Broadbent (small quantity) image 1
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Annie Broadbent - Gymnastics

25 July 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Annie Broadbent - Gymnastics

An archive charting the gymnastic career of British Olympian, Annie Broadbent. Including: Broadbent's bronze competitor's medal, the obverse with a winning athlete carried by a crowd, the reverse depicting the goddess Nike and "IX Olympiade Amsterdam 1928", 55mm., and another bronze participation medal, the obverse with two figures holding the Olympic torch, the reverse with a stadium and "IX Olympiade Amsterdam 1928", 55mm., a general British Olympic team cloth blazer badge; a gymnastics team cloth badge, and 17 other badges; 8 photographs of Broadbent at various competitions, two with her trophies, medals and badges; 5 Amateur Gymnastic Association medals, 1927-1930; her official Olympic identity card, authorised and signed by Evan Hunter, and a number of newspaper clippings relating to Broadbent's gymnastic career (small quantity)

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Whilst women had participated in the Paris Games in 1900, gymnastics debuted in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Broadbent, originally from Halifax, was 20 when she took her week's holiday from Ramsden's Brewery to go to Amsterdam and compete, going on to take bronze for Great Britain. The competition consisted of free exercises, drill, dancing steps, marching, parallel bars and swing rings work. In the newspaper clippings included in this lot, Broadbent comments: "we just did what the fellers did - and that included the swing rings. And I can tell you, that wasn't easy." Broadbent went on to win the English championships in 1929 before retiring from gymnastics completely.

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