she broke the world high jump record, took a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics, and won titles and broke records in the long jump, pentathlon and 80 metres hurdles – as well as playing ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Elsewhere, two-time African Games High jump gold medallist Rose Yeboah set another new national record after clearing 1.92m.

Hopkins broke the high jump world record on May 5 in 1956 with 1.74m at the Cherryvale Playing Fields in Belfast and six months later won Olympic silver in Melbourne, sharing the runner-up ...

Thelma Hopkins, one of the greatest athletes to represent Northern Ireland, has passed away at the age of 88. A legendary competitor, Hopkins made a world record leap into history, claimed an ...