# Edna Davey

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{{short description|Australian swimmer}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
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| strokes        = freestyle
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| birth_date     = {{birth date|1909|7|24|df=y}}
| birth_place    = London, England
| death_date     = {{death year and age|2000|1909}}
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'''Edna May Davey''' (24 July 1909 – 2000), later '''Eaton''', and then '''Hamilton''', was an Australian freestyle [swimmer](/source/Swimming_(sport)).<ref>{{Olympedia|45022}}</ref> She competed in [two events](/source/Swimming_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics) at the [1928 Summer Olympics](/source/1928_Summer_Olympics).<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/edna-davey-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418104857/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/edna-davey-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Edna Davey Olympic Results |accessdate=7 September 2016}}</ref>

Davey set a world record of 15min 46 4-5sec for 1,000 metres at Domain Baths, Sydney in 1929.<ref>{{cite news |date=28 January 1930 |title=World's Records |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119013742 |accessdate=1 March 2024 |newspaper=Evening News |location=New South Wales, Australia |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=19529}}</ref>

In 1930 she married cricketer [Ronald Eaton](/source/Ronald_Eaton),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225349675 |title=NEWLY WEDS |newspaper=[The Sun](/source/The_Sun_(Sydney)) |issue=6261 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 December 1930 |accessdate=7 December 2020 |page=15 (FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> but was divorced in 1934.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229204598 |title=Edna Davey: Husband's divorce |newspaper=[The Sun](/source/The_Sun_(Sydney)) |issue=7642 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 June 1934 |accessdate=7 December 2020 |page=11 (FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She married Harry Hamilton in 1936. Their son, [Graham Hamilton](/source/Graham_Hamilton_(swimmer)) competed in the [men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay](/source/Swimming_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_4_%C3%97_200_metre_freestyle_relay) at the [1956 Summer Olympics](/source/1956_Summer_Olympics).

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Category:1909 births
Category:2000 deaths
Category:Australian female freestyle swimmers
Category:Olympic swimmers for Australia
Category:Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Category:Swimmers from London
Category:20th-century Australian sportswomen

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