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Hopkins became a double British champion in 1955, winning the national high jump title and national long jump title at the 1955 WAAA Championships. [6] On 5 May 1956, Hopkins set a new world high jump record with a leap of 1.74 metres in Belfast, erasing the mark of 1.73 metres set by Aleksandra Chudina of the USSR on 22 May
High jump details Thelma Hopkins (NIR) 1.67 m GR Dorothy Tyler (ENG) 1.60 m Alice Whitty (CAN) 1.60 m Long jump details Yvette Williams (NZL) 6.08 m GR Thelma Hopkins (NIR) 5.84 m Jean Desforges (ENG) 5.84 m Shot put details Yvette Williams (NZL) 13.96 m GR Jackie MacDonald (CAN) 12.98 m Magdalena Swanepoel (SAF) 12.81 m Discus throw
A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Stefka Kostadinova's high jump world record of 2.08 m set on 31 May 1986. The first world record in the women's high jump was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922.
The British high jump athletics champions covers four competitions; the current British Athletics Championships which was founded in 2007, [1] the preceding AAA Championships (1880-2006), the Amateur Athletic Club Championships (1866-1879) and finally the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships.
High jump: Dorothy Tyler: 1.651 Sheila Lerwill: 1.626 Thelma Hopkins: 1.626 Long jump: Shirley Cawley: 5.61 Constance Willoughby: 5.42 Dorothy Tyler: 5.23 Shot put: Joan Linsell: 12.10 Bevis Shergold: 12.01 Suzanne Farmer: 11.35 Discus throw: Suzanne Farmer: 39.33 Bevis Shergold: 38.50 Maya Giri: 36.93 Javelin: Diane Coates: 45.30 NR Ann Dukes ...
A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Valeriy Brumel's high jump world record of 2.25 m set on 31 August 1961. The first world record in the men's high jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1912. As of June, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 40 world records in the ...
Joni Huntley clears 6 feet in the high jump on May 18, 1974, at the Oregon Class 2A state championships in Springfield. The meet record still stands 50 years later.
Event Gold Silver Bronze 100 yards: Dorothy Hyman: 10.6 =NR Daphne Arden: 10.7 Betty Moore: 10.7 220 yards: Dorothy Hyman: 23.8 Jutta Heine: 24.1 Daphne Arden