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Doris Jessie Carter OBE (5 January 1912 – 28 July 1999) was an Australian athlete who specialised in the high jump. She was the first Australian female track and field athlete to make an Olympic Games final.
Carter placed 6th in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and also competed in the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.
She won five National Championships at high jump (1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940) and two at discus throw (1936, 1940) in her career.
Following her competitive career, Doris Carter became involved in the administration of women's athletics both at State and National levels. She was President of the Victorian Womens Amateur Athletic Association from 1945 to 1948. Carter also served twice as President of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union, firstly in 1948 and again between 1952 and 1962.
In 1956 Carter was the Assistant Manager to the Australian Olympic Team during the Melbourne Olympic Games.
Carter was also prominent with the Women's Air Force during the war years of 1939 to 1945. She was honoured to co-lead the Anzac Day Parade at Melbourne in the mid-1990s.
See also
- Australian athletics champions (Women)
References
Australian National Champions in Women's High Jump 1930 – 1932: Rosa Winter • 1933 – 1940: Doris Carter • 1948: Carole Stewart • 1950: Jacqueline Baumann • 1952: Mary Grace • 1954: Carol Bernoth • 1956: Janice Cooper • 1958: Michele Mason • 1960: Helen Frith • 1962: Carolyn Wright • 1963: Robyn Woodhouse • 1964: Michele Mason • 1965: Robyn Woodhouse • 1966: Michele Mason • 1967: Robyn Woodhouse • 1968 – 1971: Carolyn Wright • 1972: Raylene Parke • 1973: Carolyn Wright • 1974 – 1975: Raylene Parke • 1976 – 1977: Christine Annison • 1978: Katrina Gibbs 1979: Vanessa Browne 1980 – 1981: Christine Stanton • 1982: Katrina Gibbs 1983: Christine Stanton • 1984: Vanessa Browne 1985 – 1987: Christine Stanton • 1988 – 1990: Vanessa Browne • 1991: Alison Inverarity • 1992: Tania Murray (NZL) • 1993 – 1995: Alison Inverarity • 1996: Lea Haggett (GBR) • 1997 – 2000: Alison Inverarity • 2001: Carmen Hunter • 2002: Petrina Price • 2003: Miyuki Aoyama (JPN) • 2004: Petrina Price • 2005: Sophia Begg • 2006 – 2007: Ellen Pettitt • 2008: Catherine Drummond • 2009: Petrina Price
Australian National Champions in Women's Discus Throw 1933 – 1935: Cora Hannan • 1936: Doris Carter • 1937: Cora Hannan • 1940: Doris Carter • 1948 – 1950: Charlotte MacGibbon • 1952: Jeanette Joy • 1954: Lorraine Murphy • 1956 – 1958: Lois Jackman • 1960: Isabel Avellán (ARG) • 1962: Rosslyn Williams • 1963 – 1964: Mary McDonald • 1965: Jean Roberts • 1966: Jane Adams • 1967 – 1970: Jean Roberts • 1971: Anna Karner • 1972 – 1973: Sue Culley • 1974 – 1975: Anna Laurens • 1976: Denise Ashford • 1977 – 1981: Gael Mulhall • 1982: Andrina Rovis-Herman • 1983 – 1984: Gael Mulhall • 1985: Sue Reinwald • 1986 – 1987: Gael Martin • 1988: Astra Etienne • 1989 – 1995: Daniela Costian • 1996: Lisa-Marie Vizaniari • 1997 – 1998: Beatrice Faumuina (NZL) • 1999: Lisa-Marie Vizaniari • 2000 – 2001: Alison Lever • 2002 – 2006: Beatrice Faumuina (NZL) • 2007 – 2011: Dani Samuels
Categories:- 1912 births
- 1999 deaths
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Australian high jumpers
- Australian discus throwers
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Australian athletics biography stubs
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