Bobbie Robertson

Robertson was a member of the Leith Amateur Swimming Club^[2] and won both the senior and junior Scottish backstroke titles at the 1965 Scottish Championships.^[3] She then broke the Scottish record at the 1965 British Championships.^[4]

Robertson represented the Scotland team^[5] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where she participated in three events and finished fourth in the 4 x 110 yards medley relay, with Fiona Kellock, Ann Baxter and Eleanor Stewart.^[6]

In March 1969 she was living at Blink Bonny Avenue, Blackhall in Edinburgh and became engaged to Hugh Russell before marrying in October.^[7]