Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, dies aged 88.

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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That year, as a 15-year-old, she won her first Northern Ireland senior titles, in the high jump and long jump. The following year in Helsinki she was Britain’s youngest competitor at the Olympic ...