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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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