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 ...

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 ...

Thelma Hopkins, the 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist and 1954 European and Empire Games champion, died on January 10 aged 88. Born in Kingston Upon Hull, she moved to Belfast in Northern ...

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