Northern Eire athlete additionally received Empire Video games and European gold and held the world file
Thelma Hopkins, the 1956 Olympic excessive bounce silver medallist and 1954 European and Empire Video games champion, died on January 10 aged 88.
Born in Kingston Upon Hull, she moved to Belfast in Northern Eire as a baby earlier than later dwelling in Canada for a few years.
In 1954 she received excessive bounce gold and lengthy bounce silver when representing Northern Eire on the Empire Video games in Vancouver – the forerunner to the Commonwealth Video games.
Later in the identical summer time, she received the excessive bounce title for Britain on the European Championships in Bern.
Hopkins broke the excessive bounce world file on Might 5 in 1956 with 1.74m on the Cherryvale Taking part in Fields in Belfast and 6 months later received Olympic silver in Melbourne, sharing the runner-up place with Mariya Pisareva of the Soviet Union, because the duo completed behind winner Mildred McDaniel of the USA.
Hopkins additionally performed hockey for Eire, incomes 40 caps, along with representing the nation in squash.
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