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Former high jump world champion found dead at cemetery near Pretoria
A former world high jump champion has been found dead with his body dumped in a field beside a cemetery in South Africa. Jacques Freitag, 42, was reportedly found with gunshot wounds after going ...
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Olympic high jump silver medallist Hopkins dies
Hopkins won the high jump title for Great Britain at the European Championships in Bern. Hopkins broke the high jump world record on 5 May 1956 when leaping 1.74m at the Cherryvale Playing Fields ...
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Olympic high jump medallist Thelma Hopkins dies aged 88
she won the high jump title for Britain at the European Championships in Bern. Hopkins broke the high jump world record on May 5 in 1956 with 1.74m at the Cherryvale Playing Fields in Belfast and ...