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{{Short description|English swimmer (1909–2002)}}
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{{Infobox swimmer
| name           = Joyce Cooper
| image          = Joyce Cooper 1934.jpg
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| caption        = Cooper in 1934
| fullname       = Margaret Joyce Cooper
| nicknames      = 
| national_team  = {{GBR2}}
| strokes        = [[Backstroke]], [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]]
| club           = Mermaid Swimming Club
| coach          = 
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1909|4|18|df=y}}
| birth_place    = Troup, [[British Ceylon|Ceylon]]
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|2002|7|22|1909|4|18|df=y}}
| death_place    = [[Chichester|Chichester, England]]
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{{MedalCountry | {{GBR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1928 Summer Olympics|1928 Amsterdam]] | [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1928 Summer Olympics|1928 Amsterdam]] | [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1928 Summer Olympics|1928 Amsterdam]] | [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke|100 m backstroke]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932 Los Angeles]] | [[Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[LEN European Aquatics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1927 European Aquatics Championships|1927 Bologna]] | 4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1927 European Aquatics Championships|1927 Bologna]] | 100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1931 European Aquatics Championships|1931 Paris]] | 400 m freestyle}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1931 European Aquatics Championships|1931 Paris]] | 100 m backstroke}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1931 European Aquatics Championships|1931 Paris]] | 4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1931 European Aquatics Championships|1931 Paris]] | 100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[British Empire Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1930 British Empire Games|1930 Hamilton]] | 100 yd freestyle}}
{{MedalGold | [[1930 British Empire Games|1930 Hamilton]] | 400 yd freestyle}}
{{MedalGold | [[1930 British Empire Games|1930 Hamilton]] | 100 yd backstroke}}
{{MedalGold | [[1930 British Empire Games|1930 Hamilton]] | 4×100 yd freestyle}}
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'''Margaret Joyce Cooper''' (18 April 1909 – 22 July 2002), later known by her married name '''Joyce Badcock''', was an English competitive [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and European championships, and England at the British Empire Games, during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

==Swimming career==
At the [[1928 Summer Olympics]] in Amsterdam, she won a silver medal in the [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100-metre freestyle relay]], and a pair of bronze medals in the [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle|100-metre freestyle]] and [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke|100-metre backstroke]] events.  In the 100-metre freestyle she finished together with [[Jean McDowell]], but the judges gave the bronze medal to Cooper in a 3–2 vote.

Cooper also won one gold, four silver and one bronze medals at the 1927 and 1931 European championships, and, while representing England, four gold medals at the [[1930 British Empire Games]].

When Los Angeles hosted the [[1932 Summer Olympics]], she won a bronze in the [[Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay]].  In individual competition, she was fourth in the [[Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre freestyle|400-metre freestyle]], and sixth in the [[Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre backstroke|100-metre backstroke]].

==Personal life==
Cooper was born in the British island colony of Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]), where her father owned a tea plantation. In 1934 she married British Olympic rowing champion [[John Badcock (rower)|John Badcock]]. Their eldest son [[Felix Badcock]] won a bronze medal in rowing at the [[1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] in [[Cardiff]], Wales and their younger son Francis 'David' M Badcock (born 1937), also rowed for the Thames RC and was a reserve for 1958 Commonwealth games crew in addition to rowing in the [[The Boat Race 1958|1958 boat race]].

==See also==
* [[List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame]]
* [[List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)]]

==References==
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* {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/joyce-cooper-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090511/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/joyce-cooper-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Joyce Cooper}}
*{{cite news |title=Joyce Cooper; Obituary |work=[[The Times]] |date=2002-07-26 |page=32 }}
*{{cite web |title=British Olympic Association > Athletes > Margaret Joyce Cooper |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=4612 |access-date=2009-03-18 |archive-date=3 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203112358/http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=4612 |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite web |title=British Olympic Association > Athletes > Joyce Cooper |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=4525 |access-date=2009-03-18 |archive-date=3 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203174815/http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=4525 |url-status=dead }}
*{{Commons category-inline|Joyce Cooper}}
[[File:UK Women 4x100m team 1928 Olympics.jpg|thumb|left|400px|British women 4 × 100 m team at the 1928 Olympics, Cooper is first from left]]

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[[Category:Sportspeople from Central Province, Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming]]
[[Category:European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:British female backstroke swimmers]]
[[Category:English female freestyle swimmers]]
[[Category:British female freestyle swimmers]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists in swimming]]
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[[Category:Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Great Britain]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1930 British Empire Games]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1932 Summer Olympics]]
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[[Category:Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists in swimming]]
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[[Category:English female backstroke swimmers]]
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