Michele Brown (athlete)
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Full name | Michele Mary Brown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 3 July 1939 | (age 82)|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 Balaș.
Brown was inducted into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame in 2010.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Athletics Australia Hall of Fame". Athletics Australia. Athletics Australia.
External links[]
- Michele Mason-Brown at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1939 births
- Living people
- Australian female high jumpers
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
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