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Maureen Caird
Medal record
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City 80 m hurdles
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1970 Edinburgh 100 m hurdles

Maureen Caird (born 29 September 1951) is an Australian former track athlete, who specialised in the sprint hurdles. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, she became the youngest-ever individual Olympic athletics champion at the time, at age 17, when she won gold in Mexico City.[1]

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Maureen Caird

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Caird

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List of Australian Olympic medallists in athletics

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Hunty (triple), Betty Cuthbert (four), Herb Elliott, Ralph Doubell, Maureen Caird, Glynis Nunn, Debbie Flintoff-King, Cathy Freeman, Steve Hooker, Sally...

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Sprint hurdles at the Olympics

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men's 200 m hurdles was 24.6 seconds by 1904 winner Harry Hillman. Maureen Caird won the last women's Olympic 80 m hurdles race in 1968 with a record...

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June Maston

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sprint champion Betty Cuthbert and Olympic 80 metres hurdles champion Maureen Caird. Maston had five children: Jeremy, Ian, Fiona, Megan, and Debra. "June...

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80 metres hurdles

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official world record: 10.2 seconds, Vera Korsakova, USSR, June 16, 1968 Maureen Caird's winning time of 10.39A at the 1968 Olympics is intrinsically better...

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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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2:02.58 Maria Gommers  Netherlands 2:02.63 80 metres hurdles details Maureen Caird  Australia 10.39 OR Pam Kilborn  Australia 10.46 Chi Cheng  Taiwan 10...

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Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

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100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s) details  Pam Kilborn (AUS) 13.27  Maureen Caird (AUS) 13.73  Christine Bell (ENG) 13.82 4 × 100 metres relay details...

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1951

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Bachelet, President of Chile Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977) Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler September 30 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician...

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List of Australian sportswomen

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multiple Olympic medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee Maureen Caird - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee...

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Australia at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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in "Olympic green" crimplene. Ralph Doubell – Athletics, Men's 800m Maureen Caird – Athletics, Women's 80m Hurdles Lyn McClements – Swimming, Women's...

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Pam Kilborn

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shoulder injury and could not overcome her surprising teenage countrywoman Maureen Caird in the rain-affected final. She won silver in the 80 metre hurdles....

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Ray Weinberg

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altitude. Weinberg's team included gold medalists Ralph Doubell and Maureen Caird. He was also involved in the aftermath of Black Power salute during...

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Australia at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

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Men's Triple Jump  Silver Sandra Brown Athletics Women's 400m  Silver Maureen Caird Athletics Women's 100m Hurdles  Silver Jean Roberts Athletics Women's...

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Australian Athletics Team

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Croker (Relay), Fleur Mellor (relay), Herb Elliott, Ralph Doubell, Maureen Caird, Glynis Nunn, Debbie Flintoff-King, Cathy Freeman, Steve Hooker and...

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Alexander McQueen

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inspiration from his imaginative runway shows and was directed by John Caird. It has been described by McQueen's sister Janet as "true to his spirit"...

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