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Mary Mitchell (athlete)

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in 1952. At the Auckland women's championships in 1941, Mitchell broke her own New Zealand record with a throw of 125 feet 8 inches (38.30 m). She also at one time held the New Zealand women's long jump record, and was a competent high jumper, winning the Auckland championship in 1936.
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In 1939, she won the inaugural women's javelin throw at the New Zealand athletics championships, with a winning distance of 111 feet
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in Sydney, where she finished fourth in the women's javelin with a best throw of 118 feet
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carving, as an artist, a poet and a horsewoman. She died in Dargaville in 2007.
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Dargaville
javelin thrower
1938 British Empire Games
Cleone Rivett-Carnac
kauri
"Mary Mitchell"
"National champions 1887–2014"
"Women's javelin throw"


"Obituaries"
"Athletics"
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1938 New Zealand British Empire Games team
Athletics
Theo Allen
Arnold Anderson
Pat Boot
Betty Forbes
Alan Geddes
Stan Lay
Jim Leckie
Doreen Lumley
Cecil Matthews
Mary Mitchell
Jack Morgan
Bill Pullar

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