Cynthia Thompson
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| File:Women's 100m final (1948 Summer Olympics).jpg Thompson in the 100m final of the 1948 Summer Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cynthia Annabelle Thompson 29 November 1923[1] Kingston, Jamaica |
| Died | 8 March 2019 (aged 95) Kingston, Jamaica |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Sprinting |
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Cynthia Annabelle Thompson (29 November 1923 – 8 March 2019) was a Jamaican sprinter. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica.[2]
She was one of four female athletes who represented Jamaica at its first Olympic Games, the 1948 Summer Olympics. Following her athletics career, she became a paediatrician and retired in 2000.[3]
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Categories:
- 1923 births
- 2019 deaths
- Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica
- Jamaican women sprinters
- Jamaican paediatricians
- Olympic athletes for Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Competitors at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Jamaica
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Jamaica
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Olympic women sprinters
- 20th-century Jamaican sportswomen
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs