Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, dies aged 88.

Thelma Hopkins set a new women's high jump world record in Belfast in May 1956 and won Olympic Games silver six months later in Melbourne 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins ...

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1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and also held the world record, has died at the age of 88. Hopkins lived in Canada for many ...

Even though it was only her second high jump event of the season, she felt in sufficiently good form to go for the world record set by the Soviet jumper Aleksandra Chudine in 1954. “When we ...

A former world high jump champion has been found dead with his ... African high jump champion and he still holds the National Record after clearing 2.38m which he set in a competition in 2005.

Hopkins broke the high jump world record on May 5 in 1956 with 1.74m at the Cherryvale Playing Fields in Belfast and six months later won Olympic silver in Melbourne, sharing the runner-up ...