Dorothy Hyman

Dorothy Hyman ( born May 9, 1941 in Cudworth, South Yorkshire ) is a former British sprinter.

Your first medal at international championships she won at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 in Cardiff, where she set a world record in the 4 x 100 -yard relay team in the final with the English team. In the same year she won at the European Athletics Championships in Stockholm with the British relay gold in the 4 x 100 - meter relay.

With the Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, she won the silver medal behind the USA's Wilma Rudolph and before the Italian Giuseppina Leone and the 200 -meter run the bronze medal behind Wilma Rudolph and the German Jutta Heine in the 100 meter race.

In 1964 she won at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the 4 x 100 - meter relay bronze medal, along with their teammates Janet Simpson, Mary Rand and Daphne Arden. About 100 m it reached # 8

In the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1962 in Perth, she won gold in the 100 yards ahead of New Zealander Doreen Porter and the Australian Brenda Cox and also Gold over 220 yards against the Australians Joyce Bennett and Margaret Burvill.

Three more medals followed in the same year at the European Championships in Belgrade: gold over 100 meters, the 200 meters silver and bronze in the 4 x 100 - meter relay.

In 1963 she was elected to the British athlete of the year.

The following year, she was plagued by injuries. Your last international appearance was in the eighth at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, where she in the 4 x 100 - meter relay bronze medal won (along with their teammates Janet Simpson, Mary Rand and Daphne Arden ) and over 100 m reaching number.