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Yaroslava Mahuchikh sets women's high jump world record
PARIS -- Ukraine's best high jumper captured a world ... record of 2.09 was set by Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova in Rome in 1987. "Coming into this competition, I had feelings that I could jump ...
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Olympic high jump silver medallist Hopkins dies
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 ...
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The sky’s no limit for this Jewish 14-year-old who broke a national high jump record
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — JJ Harel, newly 14 years old and standing ... in the world, where he won three gold medals and cleared 6 feet and 5 inches in the high jump — breaking a record for the ...
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Olympic high jump silver medallist Hopkins dies
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 ...