Charlotte MacGibbon
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Australia
| ||
| Women's Athletics | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1950 Auckland | Javelin |
Charlotte Cecilia MacGibbon-Weeks (born 27 September 1924) is an Australian former athlete who competed in the Javelin throw.
In 1940, MacGibbon won her first national title in the javelin aged just 15. In total, she won six national championships between 1940 and 1952, including the Discus on two occasions.
At the 1950 British Empire Games she became the first Australian athlete to win an international throwing event,[1] taking the javelin with a distance 38.84m.[2]
In 2006, at the age of 81, she participated in the 2006 Commonwealth Games Queen's baton relay[3]
References
| ||||||
| ||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 13, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.