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 ...

That year, as a 15-year-old, she won her first Northern Ireland senior titles, in the high jump and long jump. The following year in Helsinki she was Britain’s youngest competitor at the Olympic ...

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 ...