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Debbie Brill (Debbie Arden Brill) was born on 10 March, 1953 in Mission, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian high jumper. Discover Debbie Brill's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 10 March 1953
Birthday 10 March
Birthplace Mission, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1953

Debbie Arden Brill, (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian high jump athlete who at the age of 16 became the first North American woman to clear 6 feet.

Her reverse jumping style—which is now almost exclusively the technique of elite high jumpers—was called the Brill Bend and was developed by her when she was a child, around the same time as Dick Fosbury was developing the similar Fosbury Flop in the US.

1966

Brill started competing provincially in British Columbia in 1966 at age 13.

The following year, she competed at the Canadian national level.

1968

Her first international competition was in 1968 at age 15.

1969

She has held the Canadian high jump record since 1969, and set the current record of 1.99 meters in 1982, a few months after giving birth to her first child.

Brill was born in Mission, British Columbia, one of five children of a Canadian father and an American mother.

She developed her style of jumping as a preteen on the family farm when her father made a landing pit containing foam rubber.

Fifty years later she described it as "a natural extension of what my body was telling me to do. It was physical intuition; it wasn't anything taught."

The technique, which involved jumping over the bar with her face to the sky and landing on her back, was dubbed the "Brill bend".

Her clubmates thought it was unique until they learned that an older American athlete, Dick Fosbury, was becoming known for using the same technique.

Brill has held the Canadian National High Jump record since 1969, establishing her first Canadian High Jump record when she was 16.

She won the gold medal at the first Pacific Conference Games in 1969.

1970

Brill won gold in the high jump at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, and at the Pan American Games in 1971.

In 1970 at age 17, she became the first woman in the western hemisphere to jump 6 ft (1.83 m).

Brill won the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and was presented with the gold medal by Queen Elizabeth.

From 1970 to 1985 in the annual Track and Field News merit rankings, Brill was ranked in the world's top ten for the high jump twelve times (the exceptions being 1973, 74, 76 and 81; with 76 being the only active year of the four).

She was ranked in the top 5 six times.

The only female high jumpers with more top ten rankings are Inha Babakova and Stefka Kostadinova, both with thirteen.

1971

She won the 1971 Pan Am Games.

1972

She finished 8th in the 1972 Summer Olympics, then quit the sport in the wake of the Munich massacre, returning three years later.

Brill came in eighth at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

She campaigned to have the Games stopped after the Munich massacre and retired afterwards, becoming disillusioned with the Olympic experience.

1975

She returned to competition in 1975 and placed 4th at the Pan Am Games.

1976

At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, she was eliminated after failing three times at the opening height and was criticized for laughing in a subsequent interview, although she wrote afterwards that she was disappointed by her failure.

1977

She would again win the Pacific Conference Games title in 1977.

She placed 3rd at the first World Cup in 1977, and won a silver medal at home in Edmonton at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

1979

She won gold at the IAAF World Cup in 1979 and at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

In 1979, Brill won a gold medal in the athletics World Cup held in Montreal, Canada.

She was the world's number one high jumper for 1979.

Having been ranked number one in the world by Track and Field News in 1979, Brill was one of the favourites going into the 1980 Olympics which Canada boycotted because of the U.S.S.R.'s military involvement in Afghanistan.

1982

In January 1982, Brill established a World Indoor High Jump record of 1.99 meters in Edmonton, Alberta, 5 months after giving birth to her first son Neil.

She has a daughter Katelin and another son Jacob.

She is married to physician Dr. Douglas Coleman.

She was again Commonwealth Champion in 1982 at the games in Brisbane.

1983

In 1983, Brill was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "Canada's premier woman high-jumper".

1984

She set her final Canadian outdoor record in September 1984 with 1.98 m. Her indoor record of 1.99 m was set in 1982.

1999

In 1999, at the age of 46, Brill broke the world masters record (age 45+) when she cleared 1.76 metres in Gateshead.

2012

In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

2017

As of 2017, Brill's Canadian records still stand.