Mary Peters and Thelma Hopkins at Athletics Meeting

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Mary Peters and Thelma Hopkins at Athletics Meeting

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Location

Aircraft Park, Belfast

Year

1962

Date

Production 02/06/1962

Length

02min 51sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

This footage of an athletics meet (possibly the Northern Ireland Track and Field Championships at Aircraft Park, Belfast) captures two of Northern Ireland’s golden greats of track and field. Dame Mary Peters famously won the gold medal for the Pentathlon at the 1972 Olympics with a world record score and also achieved gold medals at the 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Games. Thelma Hopkins set a new world record for the High Jump in Belfast in 1954, the same year that she took the gold medal in both the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. She would also gain a silver medal at the 1956 Olympics.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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