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Mary Rand was born on 10 February, 1940 in Wells, Somerset, England, is a British/American track and field athlete. Discover Mary Rand'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 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
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Born 10 February, 1940
Birthday 10 February
Birthplace Wells, Somerset, England
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Mary Rand Height, Weight & Measurements

At 84 years old, Mary Rand height is 1.73 m and Weight 61 kg.

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Weight 61 kg
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1940

Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete.

1956

In 1956, she was a guest of the Olympic squad at a training camp in Brighton, where she beat Britain's best high jumpers.

At 17, Rand set a British record of 4046 points in the pentathlon.

1958

She won a silver medal in the 1958 Commonwealth Games long jump and came fifth in the high jump.

One month later she came seventh in the European pentathlon championship.

1959

Rand also held the world record in the triple jump from 1959 to 1981; it was unofficial as a world record in the women's triple jump was not recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations until 1990.

1960

In the 1960 Olympics in Rome, she set a British record of 6.33m in the qualifying round of the long jump, which if repeated, would have won a silver in the final.

In the final she fouled two of the three jumps and finished ninth.

She also finished fourth in the 80m hurdles.

Around 1960 Bignal dated Dutch decathlete Eef Kamerbeek.

1961

In 1961 she met rower Sid Rand.

Three days after meeting she agreed to marry him and they married five weeks later.

They had a daughter, Alison.

The marriage lasted five years.

1962

She won a bronze medal in the European championship long jump in 1962.

1964

She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.

She remains the only British female athlete to win three medals in a single Games.

Mary Rand is the daughter of Eric and Hilda Bignal.

She was born and grew up in Wells, Somerset, England.

At 16, Millfield School offered her an athletics scholarship.

She excelled in all sports and won All-England Schools' titles.

She was outstanding at high jump, long jump and hurdles.

At the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Rand set an Olympic record in the long jump in the qualifying rounds, jumping 6.52m.

In the final she beat the favourite, world record holder Tatyana Schelkanova of the USSR and Poland's Irena Kirszenstein.

Her first jump of 6.59m was a British record.

However, in the fifth round, on a wet runway with a headwind of 1.6 metres a second, she broke the world record, leaping 6.76m to take gold.

Her record lasted four years until it was broken at altitude by Viorica Viscopoleanu in the subsequent Olympics.

Rand won silver medal in the pentathlon, her 5035 points putting her second in the all-time rankings.

She was beaten to the gold by Irina Press, whose biological sex has been the subject of speculation.

She also won a bronze as a member of the Great Britain team that finished third in the 4×100 metres relay.

Six days after Rand won the gold medal, her roommate Ann Packer won the 800 metres.

Packer said: "Mary was the most gifted athlete I ever saw. She was as good as athletes get, there has never been anything like her since. And I don't believe there ever will."

There is a plaque commemorating the world record long jump (6.76 metres) by Rand at the 1964 Olympic Games in the Market Place in Wells.

She was succeeded as Golden Girl of British athletics by her friend and London Olympiades club-mate, Lillian Board.

1965

Rand was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1965 New Year Honours for services to athletics and voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 1964.

1966

After Tokyo, her training was less intensive, but she won a gold the long jump at the 1966 Commonwealth Games.

1968

Due to injury, she failed to make the 1968 British Olympic team and retired in September that year.

1969

In December 1969, she married her second husband, American Bill Toomey, the 1968 Olympics' decathlon champion.

2009

In 2009, Rand was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame.

2012

On 26 January 2012 Wells awarded her the Freedom of the City, following a campaign started by Wells resident Tony Williams.