Dixie Willis

Dixie Willis

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Born	13 December 1941
Medal record Women's Athletics Competitor for  Australia Commonwealth Games Gold 1962 Perth 880 yards

Dixie Isabel Willis (later Ingram, then Carbon, then Booth) (born 13 December 1941 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Australian middle distance runner, who won the gold medal in the women's 880 yards event at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. She was selected to compete over 800 metres for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At Rome in 1960 she was leading the final with 70 metres remaining when she pulled off the track.^[1] In 1964 at Tokyo she was unable to compete due to injury.^[2]

On 3 March 1962 she set world records for 800 metres (2:01.2) and 880 yards (2:02.0) in narrowly beating Marise Chamberlain (2:01.4 and 2:02.3) who also beat the previous world records.^[3]

References

1. ^ Athletics at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Women's 800 metres
2. ^ Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 800 metres
3. ^ Heidenstrom, P. (1992) Athletes of the Century. Wellington: GP Publications. ISBN 1-86956-044-2

• Biography at sports-reference.com

Records
Preceded by Lyudmila Shevtsova	Women's 800 metres World Record Holder 1962-03-03 – 1964-10-20	Succeeded by Ann Packer

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Name	Willis, Dixie
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Date of birth	13 December 1941
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