1964 - BRENDA JONES - YALLOURN HIGH SCHOOL - OLYMPIC HOPEFUL
Caption: Brenda Jones, who is training hard for selection as Australia’s half-miler at the Tokyo Games.
The accompanying article: TOPS IN SPORT BY CYNTHIA ROBINSON
Dark horses are often the best bets, as Victoria's Brenda Jones proved in Rome in 1960 when she was the only Australian woman athlete to win an Olympic medal. Her surprising success in streaking into second place in the 800 metres middle-distance running event provided a silver lining to the otherwise cloudy set of Australian performances….Brenda, whose training programme includes a five-mile run each night started her sporting career at the Yallourn High School, where she was sprint champion. She soon switched to middle-distance running however. "I wasn't setting the world on fire as sprinter," she explained "And I realised that in sprinting you could run for a hundred years and not improve your times…”
Source: NLA: 55472133 ‘THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY’ WEDNESDAY 1st APRIL 1964 PAGE: 47.