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 ...

recorded two individual top-10 finishes, placing seventh in the women’s long jump at 5.20 metres and ninth in triple jump at 10.44 metres. “Keon really deserves this record,” Laurentian head coach ...

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 ...

A British man has become a Guinness World Record holder after visiting an unparalleled 42 museums in less than 12 hours. While Ben Melham, age 42, earned the record of “most museums visited in ...

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 ...

Victories for Rachel Homoly and Rachel Glenn highlighted the first day of the Razorback Invitational while Arkansas alum ...

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 ...

Aussie farmers have plenty to celebrate this Australia Day, with red meat exports notching fresh record highs across 2024.

A Telangana man has made it to the Guinness World Records for a bizarre feat - stopping ... sporting long hair and in a colourful shirt, standing in front of a number of electric fans.