Dorothy Hyman

Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Olympic Games
Silver	1960 Rome	100 metres
Bronze	1960 Rome	200 metres
Bronze	1964 Tokyo	4 x 100 m relay
European Championships
Silver	Stockholm 1958	4 x 100 m relay
Gold	Belgrade 1962	100 m
Silver	Belgrade 1962	200 m
Bronze	Belgrade 1962	4 x 100 m relay
Competitor for  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold	Cardiff 1958	4 x 110 y relay
Gold	Perth 1962	100 y
Gold	Perth 1962	200 y
Silver	Perth 1962	4 x 110 y relay

Dorothy Hyman (born 9 May 1941 in Cudworth, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.

She competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 100 metres, where she won the Silver medal. She followed this up by winning the bronze medal in the 200 metres.

Four years later in Tokyo, Japan in the 1964 Games she helped the Great Britain team pick up a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay with team mates Janet Simpson, Mary Rand and Daphne Arden.

She also won individual 100 m Gold and 200 m Silver at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade and, representing England, completed the 100 m/200 m sprint double at the 1962 Commonwealth Games.

Arguably Britain's best ever female sprinter, she has a stadium in her home village in Cudworth, Barnsley, named in her honour.

In 2011, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame.

References

• Athletics biography

Awards
Preceded by Anita Lonsbrough	BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1963	Succeeded by Mary Rand

Persondata
Name	Hyman, Dorothy
Alternative names
Short description	British athlete
Date of birth	9 May 1941
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death