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Track & Field Athletics Australia    by Graham Thomas

Women of the Golden Era

Welcome to my biographies of Australia's best track and field athletes of all-time.

• Shirley Strickland - our best ever athlete?
  
  
• Marjorie Jackson - Australia's first Olympic Champ
  
  
• Betty Cuthbert - the Golden Girl
  
  
• Charlotte McGibbon-Weekes - Javelin Gold
  
  
• Joyce King - softball, netball & swimming star
  
  
• Verna Johnston - Sprint Relay & Long Jump Champ
  
  
• Winsome Cripps - unlucky Olympian
  
  
• Pam Bryant - surprise world record in 1954
  
  
• Norma Croker -Queensland's first Olympic Gold
  
  
• Anna Pazera (Bocson) - javelin world record
  
  
• Marlene Matthews - unlucky Golden Girl
  
  
• Norma Thrower - Hurdles champion of the 50s
  

• Dixie Willis - 880y world record holder
  
  
• Brenda Jones - Australia's first 800m medallist
  
  
• Michele Mason - second High Jumper over 6 feet
  
  
• Pam Kilborn-Ryan - the remarkable hurdler
  
  
• Marilyn Black - Olympic sprint medal
  
  
• Judy Amoore-Pollock - Olympian 1964-76
  
  
• Diane Burge - SA's star of the sixties
  
  
• Jenny Lamy - a three-peat of relay gold
  
  
• Maureen Caird - the youngest champion

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