Gladys Hartman

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Dame Gladys Marea Hartman, DBE (22 June 1920 – 29 August 1994) was a British athletics administrator.

[edit] Background

Gladys Marea Hartman was a British athlete who was the first woman athlete to be sponsored by a commercial company.^{[citation needed]} In the 1950s she secured sponsorship deals with Bovril, Birdseye, Kraft and Sunsilk, who were all keen to help promote women's championships.^{[citation needed]}

In 1981 she became the first chairwoman of the British Amateur Athletic Board.^{[citation needed]}

She died in 1994^[1], aged 74, several months after her damehood.

[edit] References

1. ^ Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator, dies at 74 August 29 in History