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in the final, - 18, +2, +6. Today, players at the Cheltenham Croquet Club still compete for a tournament award called the Isobel Roe Trophy. Roe taught physical education in Cheltenham during this latter part of her life, as well as having cared for her elderly father, Commander R. C. T. Roe, a
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Following her career as a competitor, Roe served as the President of Great Britain's Ladies' Ski Club from 1957 to 1960. She founded the Ski Club Reps Course, Junior Championships, and the Schoolgirl Races. The Schoolgirl Races were founded in conjunction with Liz Fulton, and were originally
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At the height of her career, Roe lost years of competition and training to WWII. Following the conflict, Roe became the Ladies' Lowlander Champion and performed on Great Britain's Winter Olympic Team, both in 1948. She was 31 years of age when she competed in the Alpine Slalom (23rd overall,
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Another noteworthy achievement, achieved far later in her career as an athlete, came when she won the Women's Championship of The
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player. As a skier, she was Great Britain Women's Ski Champion and represented Britain in the World Championships in 1937 and the
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Roe was the captain of the British Ladies' Ski Team at the 1948 Winter Olympics and competed alongside Miss
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Miss Isabel Roe, pictured second from the right, alongside the British Ladies' Ski Team at the
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in the category of Most Tiles Held, Women's Skiing, Great Britain. Roe died in 1987 in
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Tatler (18 February 1948). "Scoreboard: British Ladies' Ski Team at 1948 Olympics".
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2:49.6), Alpine Downhill (27th, 2:47.3), and Alpine Combined (23rd, 34.91) at the
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Just before her death, Roe appeared in the 1986 edition of
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Great Britain
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
Alpine skier
Downhill
Slalom
Combined
(1948)
Chamonix
Zakopane
alpine skier
croquet
1948 Winter Olympics
alpine skiing
World War II
Chamonix
France
Zakopane
Poland
1948 Winter Olympics
St. Moritz
1936 Winter Olympics
Bavaria
Germany
Xanthe Ryder
Evelyn Pinching
Sheena Mackintosh
Gstaad
Switzerland

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