Fleur Mellor

Fleur Mellor
Medal record

Representing Australia
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
	1956 Melbourne	4 x 100 m relay

Fleur Mellor (born 13 July 1936) is an Australian athlete and olympic champion. She competed at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, where she received a gold medal in 4 x 100 m relay, with Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Norma Croker and Betty Cuthbert.^[1] Their winning time (44.5) was a new world record.

References

↑ "1956 Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Track & Field" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 19 June 2008)

Olympic champions in women's 4×100 m relay

1928: Canada (Rosenfeld, Smith, Bell, Cook)
1932: United States (Carew, Furtsch, Rogers, von Bremen)
1936: United States (Bland, Rogers, Robinson, Stephens)
1948: Netherlands (Stad-de Jong, Witziers-Timmer, van der Kade-Koudijs, Blankers-Koen)
1952: United States (Faggs, Jones, Moreau, Hardy)
1956: Australia (Strickland de la Hunty, Croker, Mellor, Cuthbert)
1960: United States (Hudson, Williams, Jones, Rudolph)
1964: Poland (Ciepły, Kirszenstein, Górecka, Kłobukowska)
1968: United States (Ferrell, Bailes, Netter, Tyus)
1972: West Germany (Krause, Mickler, Richter, Rosendahl)
1976: East Germany (Göhr, Stecher, Bodendorf, Wöckel)
1980: East Germany (Müller, Wöckel, Auerswald, Göhr)
1984: United States (Brown, Bolden, Cheeseborough, Ashford)
1988: United States (Brown, Echols, Griffith Joyner, Ashford)
1992: United States (Ashford, Jones, Guidry, Torrence, Finn)
1996: United States (Devers, Miller, Gaines, Torrence, Guidry)
2000: Bahamas (Fynes, Sturrup, Davis-Thompson, Ferguson, Lewis)
2004: Jamaica (Lawrence, Simpson, Bailey, Campbell, McDonald)
2008: Russia (Polyakova, Fedoriva, Gushchina, Chermoshanskaya)
2012: United States (Madison, Felix, Knight, Jeter, Tarmoh, Williams)

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