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 ...

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh emerges for her season opener on Thursday she will embark on another four-year Olympic cycle, with a ...

Australia had two medal contenders in the Olympic women's high jump final on Monday morning (AEST). Tokyo 2020 silver ...

Thelma Hopkins, the 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist and 1954 European and Empire Games champion, died on January 10 aged 88. Born in Kingston Upon Hull, she moved to Belfast in Northern ...

When Lake Placid hosted the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, it would still be another 30 years before women were offered the opportunity to compete at the highest international level. This weekend, the ...

Twelve years after women ski jumpers competed at the World Cup level for the first time and two years after the men returned ...

Thelma Hopkins, right, accepting a trophy at the Women’s Amateur Athletics Association Championships in 1957 from her fellow Olympic high jump silver medallists, Dorothy Tyler, left, and Sheila ...

Former Arizona High School Sports Awards Girls Athlete of the Year Audrey Jimenez continued to grow here legend in 2024, coming up just one match short of making the U.S. Women’s Olympic ...