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Michele Brown Personal information Born 3 July 1939 Medal recordWomen's Athletics Competitor for Australia Olympic Games Silver 1964 Tokyo High Jump Commonwealth Games Gold 1958 Cardiff High Jump Gold 1966 Kingston High Jump Michele Mary Brown (née Mason; born 3 July 1939) is an Australian athlete, who competed mainly in the high jump during her career.
She competed for Australia at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan where she won the silver medal in the women's high jump event. She was the second female athlete ever to jump over six feet, after Iolanda Balaş.
References
Commonwealth Champions in Women's High Jump 1934: Marjorie Clark (SAF) · 1938–50: Dorothy Tyler-Odam (ENG) · 1954: Thelma Hopkins (NIR) · 1958: Michele Brown (AUS) · 1962: Robyn Woodhouse (AUS) · 1966: Michele Brown (AUS) · 1970: Debbie Brill (CAN) · 1974: Barbara Lawton (ENG) · 1978: Katrina Gibbs (AUS) · 1982: Debbie Brill (CAN) · 1986: Christine Stanton (AUS) · 1990: Tania Murray (NZL) · 1994: Alison Inverarity (AUS) · 1998–2002: Hestrie Cloete (RSA) · 2006: Anika Smit (RSA) · 2010: Nicole Forrester (CAN)
Categories:- 1939 births
- Australian high jumpers
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Australian athletics biography stubs
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs
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