B. Petit

French swimmer

B. Petit (born c. 1900s) was a French swimmer from Rouen in the 1920s and early 1930s. She was a member of Union Fédérale des Nageurs de Normandie and later took an individual license.

B. Petit
Personal information
Bornc. 1900s
France
Sport
Sportswimming

She registered for the 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1922 Women's Olympiad, the earliest international women's swimming championships.[1][2]

In August 1927 she competed at the French national swimming championships, but didn’t win a medal.[3] At the 1931 French national championships in Paris she won the bronze medal in the 400 metre freestyle behind Yvonne Godard and Suzanne Delbort.[3]

References

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  1. "De wedstrijden te Monte Carlo". Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (in Dutch). 19 April 1922. Retrieved 13 October 2022 – via Delpher.
  2. "Les Jeux de Monte-Carlo | Les epreuves de natation". La Nation Belge (in French). 20 April 1922. Retrieved 25 August 2024 – via belgicapress.be.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Velez, Anne (2010). "LES FILLES DE L'EAU. UNE HISTOIRE DES FEMMES ET DE LA NATATION EN FRANCE(1905-1939)" (PDF). Université d’Angers (in French). Retrieved 10 November 2022 – via tel.archives-ouvertes.fr.