Thelma Elizabeth Hopkins was a Northern Irish athlete who competed in the high jump and the long jump. She won the high jump silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and was European champion in 1954. Thelma Hopkins (Great Britain) set the women's high jump world record of 1.74 m in Belfast on May 5, 1956. It stood 2 months, until Iolanda Balaș's 1.75 m on July 14, 1956. Wiki link