Michele Brown (athlete)

Michele Brown

Personal information
Born	3 July 1939
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  Australia Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo High Jump Commonwealth Games 1958 Cardiff High Jump 1966 Kingston High Jump 1962 Perth High jump

Michele Mary Brown (née Mason; born 3 July 1939) is an Australian athlete, who competed mainly in the high jump during her career.

She competed for Australia at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan where she won the silver medal in the women's high jump event. She was the second female athlete ever to jump over six feet, after Iolanda Balaș.

Brown was inducted into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame in 2010.^[1]

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