Betty Cook

American motorboat racer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican motorboat racer
PlacesUnited States of America
wasMotorboat racer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth1 January 1923
Death1 January 1990 (aged 67 years)
The details

Biography

Betty Cook (1923-1990) was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer. She won 17 races, 2 world championships (1977 and 1979), and three time American Power Boat Association US champion (1978, 1979, 1981). She was the first woman to win the powerboat world championship (1977) in what had been traditionally a male-only sport.

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