Norma Thrower

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Norma Thrower
Personal information
Full nameNorma Claire Thrower
BornNorma Claire Austin
5 February 1936 (1936-02-05) (age 90)
Height166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Melbourne 80 metres hurdles
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff 80 metres hurdles

Norma Claire Thrower (née Austin, born 5 February 1936) is a retired Australian hurdler. The South Australian hurdler ran for the Western Districts club in Adelaide.

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia she won the bronze medal over 80 metres hurdles behind countrywoman Shirley Strickland (gold) and German Gisela Köhler (silver).

At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff she again won the 80m hurdles event, this time ahead of Carole Quinton (silver) and countrywoman Gloria Wigney (bronze).

At the Australian championships she won a silver medal in 1952, a bronze in 1954 and gold medals in 1956, 1958 and 1960.

Thrower set a world record of 10.6 seconds[1] for 80 metres hurdles in 1960, but could not make the final at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
[edit | edit source]
  • Lua error in Module:External_links at line 369: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  • Norma Thrower at Commonwealth Games AustraliaLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).