Linda Knowles

Linda Knowles

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
European Championships
	1962 Belgrade	High jump
Summer Universiade
	1967 Tokyo	High jump

Linda Yvonne Knowles (born 28 April 1946) is a retired track and field athlete.

Athletics career

She represented Great Britain in the women's high jump event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She won the bronze medal at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia when she was only 16.

She represented England in the high jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.[1][2]

Personal life

She married the Swedish decathlete Lennart Hedmark and now resides in Malmö, Sweden.

References

1. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
2. "1962 Athletes". Team England.

• British Olympic Committee at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 September 2007)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Linda Knowles". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2010.