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 ...

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 ...

Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s world high jump record of 2.10m set in Paris in July has officially been ratified by World Athletics. Three world U20 records that were set by Medina Eisa, Jaydon Hibbert and Yan ...