Marjorie Jackson biography
Marjorie Jackson, married title Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, (born September 13, 1931, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia), Australian athlete who gained two Olympic gold medals and tied or set 13 world information. During the early Nineteen Fifties, when Australians dominated girls’s dash occasions, Jackson was probably the most excellent Australian sprinter.
Jackson, often called the “Lithgow Flash” after her hometown, was simply 17 years previous when she twice outran the good Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen. At the age of 19 she gained three gold medals on the 1950 British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) in Auckland, New Zealand. Competing on the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, she tied the world report for the 100-metre dash (11.5 seconds), profitable the gold medal. Jackson gained one other gold medal within the 200 metres, setting a world report, and competed for the Australian 4 × 100-metre relay staff that set a world report (46.1 seconds) in its first warmth at Helsinki; the staff led within the ultimate race till a teammate by accident knocked the baton from Jackson’s hand. Jackson additionally gained gold medals within the 100- and 220-yard runs on the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver.
In 1953 Jackson married Australian bicycle owner Peter Nelson. After his loss of life in 1977, she established the Peter Nelson Leukemia Foundation. From 2001 to 2007 she served as governor of South Australia.