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 ...

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh emerges for her season opener on Thursday she will embark on another four-year Olympic cycle, with a ...

Paralympics silver medalist Samson Ojuka has set his sights on smashing the world record for the long jump, this year.Ojuka says the record has been on his mind for a while and is determined to ...

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She broke the high jump world record with a 1.74m effort at the Cherryvale Playing Fields in Belfast on May 5, 1956. Six months later, Hopkins – aged 20 – won silver at the Olympic Games in ...

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 ...

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

1 in the women’s high jump. Unbeaten in all 25 of her competitions, Kostadinova emerged victorious at the European Indoor Championships in Piraeus and the World Cup in Canberra, and topped the world ...

Scottie Vines leaps in the high jump during the indoor Razorback Invitational on Jan. 31 at the Randal Tyson Track Center in ...

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 ...