Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, ...

In four games last week, all wins, Staunton senior Joaqin Bell averaged 25.3 points a game. His biggest scoring night came on ...

Chariho senior Emily Brown won the high jump (5-2), finished second in the 55 hurdles (9.20) and took third in the long jump ...

The calmness Baker’s faith has brought him has played a role in him becoming the reigning two-time New York State Public High ...

1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins ... who also went on to have a hugely successful athletics career. The then 70-year-old athlete returned to the Cherryvale Playing Fields ...

Nick Wilusz won the high jump (5-8) while Issac Graham finished third in the 600 (1:28.63) and Tom Golas took fourth in the 1500 (4:21.25) for Chariho at ...

Thelma Hopkins, the 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist and 1954 European and Empire Games champion, died on January 10 aged 88. Born in Kingston Upon Hull, she moved to Belfast in Northern ...

Thelma Hopkins, who has died aged 88, was the golden girl of British athletics in the 1950s; she broke the world high jump record, took a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics, and won titles and ...

Six months later, Hopkins – aged 20 – won silver at the Olympic Games in Melbourne representing Great Britain. She also ...