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Mary Milne (athlete)

Mary Milne
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born23 July 1914
London, England
Died23 June 2014 (aged 99)
Streatham, London, England
Sport
SportAthletics
Eventhigh jump
ClubMitcham AC

Mary Milne (1914-2014) married name Dumbrill, was a female athlete who competed for England.

Biography

Milne became the national high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1932 WAAA Championships.[1] The following year she retained her WAAA title at the 1933 WAAA Championships.[2]

She competed for England in the high jump at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.[3]

Milne won her third WAAA title at the 1935 WAAA Championships and was the highest British athlete on a further two occasions (in 1930 and 1934, the winners of those two championships being Carolina Gisolf of the Netherlands and Gretel Bergmann of Germany respectively.[4]

Personal life

Mary Milne married Leonard Dumbrill in 1935.

References

  1. ^ "Sprinters' break world records in successive heats". Weekly Dispatch (London). 10 July 1932. Retrieved 24 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  4. ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 24 January 2025.


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