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 ...

Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian world-record holder in the high jump who won the Olympic gold medal in that event at Stade ...

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 ...