Sheila W. Lerwill is a British retired athlete who competed mainly in the high jump and competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Sheila Lerwill (Great Britain) set the women's high jump world record of 1.72 m in London on July 7, 1951. It stood 2.9 years, until Aleksandra Chudina's 1.73 m on May 22, 1954. Wiki link