Yvette Williams



Yvette Winifred Corlett-Williams ( Dunedin , April 251929 ) is a former New Zealandathlete, who specialized in the long jump . It was in this part athletics Olympic andCommonwealth champion in 1954 and established a world record .



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[ hide ]  *1 Career  ==Career [ edit] == In 1950, Williams won at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland the jump part and won a silver medal in the javelin . At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, she won a gold medal in the long jump. With a best effort of 6.24m, one centimeter below the world record, they defeated the RussianAleksandra Chudina (silver, 6.14) and BritishShirley Cawley (bronze, 5.92). Initially it looked in the final at all looking forward to that Yvette Williams would win. Her first two attempts were even invalid. But when her fourth attempt she made ​​an end to all uncertainty and showed 6.24 record. In the shot put, she was sixth with 13.35. With her ​​title in the long jump Williams became the first New Zealand woman to ever win a gold Olympic medal. [1]
 * 2 Titles
 * 3 Personal record
 * 4 Honours
 * 4.1 jump
 * 4.2 javelin
 * 4.3 Shot Put
 * 4.4 discus

The Commonwealth Games 1954 in Vancouver Williams won three gold medals (long jump, shot put and discus ). In the same year she improved the world record long jump, with 6.25 in the name stood for since 1943 FBK, to 6.28.

Colette Williams ended her athletics career before the next Olympic Games, that of 1956 in Melbourne . She had been married to basketball - and softball playerBuddy Corlett and slowly but surely had plans on starting a family prevailed. The couple would eventually have four children, who all excelled in sports. ==Titles [ Edit] == ==Personal record [ edit] == ==Honours [ edit] == ===jump [ edit] === ===javelin [ edit] === ===Shot Put [ Edit] === ===discus [ edit] ===
 * Olympic champion jump - 1952
 * Commonwealth Champion Long Jump - 1950, 1954
 * Commonwealth Champion Shot Put - 1954
 * Commonwealth champion discus - 1954
 * New Zealand's long jump champion - 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954
 * New Zealand shot put champion - 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954
 * New Zealand discus champion - 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954
 * New Zealand champion javelin - 1950
 * 1950: Commonwealth Games - 5,90 m
 * 1952: OS - 6,24 m
 * 1954: Commonwealth Games - 6,08 m
 * 1950: Commonwealth Games - 37,96 m
 * 1952: 6th OS - 13,35 m
 * 1954: Commonwealth Games - 13,96 m
 * 1954: Commonwealth Games - 45,01 m