Rosemary Stirling

Rosemary Stirling ( Rosemary Olivia Stirling, after marriage Wright, born December 11, 1947 in Timaru, New Zealand) is a former British sprinter and middle distance runner.

In New Zealand born as the daughter of Scots, she moved in the early 1960s with her family to Wolverhampton and joined there the Wolverhampton Harriers on. Early age of 16 she was one of the best British female runners over 800 m. In the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1966 in Kingston, she took in the Scottish national team both about 440 yards and about 880 yards in fourth place.

In 1969 she won the 400m bronze behind Colette Besson and Christel Frese at the European Indoor Games in Belgrade. Under the open sky, she was eighth in the 400m at the European Athletics Championships in Athens. The race was won by Frenchwoman Nicole Duclos before her compatriot Colette Besson; both ran in 51.7 seconds world record. Four days after the 400 -meter final was the final of the 4 x 400 - meter relay on the program. Rosemary Stirling went for the British squadron in the lead, second position, Nicole Duclos pushed forward Pat Lowe, Janet Simpson caught up, and the final runners Lillian Board and Colette Besson fought to the finish a tough fight. Both relay races were running in 3:30,8 minutes world record, with the British women won gold in front of the French women.

The highlight of the summer season 1970, the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, where the living in England took Stirling as the representative of the host Scots. She won the 800 - meter race in 2:06,24 min with 0.03 s lead over the Englishwoman Pat Lowe, their comrade from the British relay.

In the Indoor Athletics Championships 1971 in Sofia, she won the 800m bronze behind Hildegard Falck and Ileana Silai. Bronze she won in the same year at the European Championships in Helsinki. After a fall of Hildegard Falck Vera Nikolić won ahead of Lowe and Stirling, the minutes ran to the finish in 2:02,1. In the relay Lowe and Stirling occupied the fourth place in the race, in which they were replaced by the runners from the GDR as Weltrekordlerinnen.

At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 Stirling ran the 800 meters in 2:00,15 minutes, the fastest time of her career that finished seventh. With the season they also ran in the finals and reached the fifth rank. 1974 was at the British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch for the first time the 4 x 400 - meter relay of women in the program. Rosemary Wright, as she was now called after her marriage to the marathon runner Trevor Wright, finished with the Scottish relay race in fourth place. A month after the Games in Christchurch, she stood at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg for the last time in a grand finale, reaching over 800 m in fourth place.

Rosemary Stirling is 1.57 m tall and weighed 51 kg in their active time. Your British 800 -meter record from 1971 to 1979 had on hand, as it undercut Christina Boxer.

Personal Best

  • 400 m: 53.24 s, August 28, 1971, London
  • 800 m: s 2:00,15, September 3, 1972 Munich Hall: 2:05,19 min, March 10, 1974, Gothenburg
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