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 ...

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 ...

That jump was made by Julian Carr, a world record holder for distance with invert ... Julian: “Spending a lot of time in the high alpine environment in the winter can be very intense, once ...

Any sprint-based athlete runs on ego; it is the oil of the system," says Dwight Stones, former world record holder in the high jump, about two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee ...