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

That year, as a 15-year-old, she won her first Northern Ireland senior titles, in the high jump and long jump. The following year in Helsinki she was Britain’s youngest competitor at the Olympic ...

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 ...

Hamish Kerr is looking back on the moments that led up to his gold medal-winning performance in the men's high jump final at ...