Fleur Mellor
Fleur Northey Mellor (married Wenham ; born July 13, 1936 in Sydney ) is a former Australian athlete and Olympic champion.
Mellor won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Shirley Strickland de la Hunty , Norma Croker and Betty Cuthbert at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . The Australians set a world record of 44.9 s in the qualifying round and improved it to 44.5 s in the final.
A few days after the Olympic final, Mellor was involved in two further relay world records: over 4 times 110 yards (45.6 s) and 4 times 220 yards (1: 36.3 min).
Web links
- Fleur Mellor in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Fleur Mellor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Athletic Center: Athletics Path of Champions ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
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| 1932: Carew , Furtsch , Rogers , from Bremen ( USA )
| 1936: Bland , Rogers , Robinson , Stephens ( USA ) | 1948: Stad-de Jong , Witziers-Timmer , van der Kade-Koudijs , Blankers-Koen ( NED )
| 1952: Faggs , Jones , Moreau , Hardy ( USA ) | 1956: Strickland , Croker , Mellor , Cuthbert ( AUS )
| 1960: Hudson , Williams , Jones , Rudolph ( USA )
| 1964: Ciepły , Szewińska , Górecka , Kłobukowska ( POL ).svg){kind=small}
| 1968: Ferrell , Bailes , Netter , Tyus ( USA ) | 1972: Krause , Becker , Richter , Rosendahl ( FRG )
| 1976: Göhr , Stecher , Bodendorf , Eckert ( GDR )
| 1980: Müller , Eckert , Auerswald , Göhr ( GDR ) | 1984: Brown , Bolden , Cheeseborough , Ashford ( USA ) | 1988: Brown , Echols , Griffith-Joyner , Ashford ( USA ) | 1992: Ashford , Jones , Guidry , Torrence ( USA ) | 1996: Devers , Miller , Gaines , Torrence ( USA ) | 2000: Fynes , Sturrup , Davis-Thompson , Ferguson ( BAH )
| 2004: Lawrence , Simpson , Bailey , Campbell ( JAM )
| 2008: Borlée , Mariën , Ouédraogo , Gevaert ( BEL )
| 2012: Madison , Felix , Knight , Jeter ( USA ) | 2016: Bartoletta , Felix , Gardner , Bowie ( USA )
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| SURNAME | Mellor, Fleur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mellor, Fleur Northey (full name); Wenham, Fleur Northey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |