Moira Walls
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 May 1952 Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | High jumper, long jumper, pentathlete | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Edinburgh Southern Harriers AC | ||||||||||||||
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Moira Lindsay Maguire née Walls (born 4 May 1952), is a Scottish former high jumper, long jumper and pentathlete. She won a bronze medal in the high jump at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Walls, born in Glasgow, Scotland,[1] was a member of Edinburgh Southern Harriers Athletics Club.[2]
Walls became the British pentathlon champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1969 WAAA Championships.[3][4][5] She also became Scottish national champion in the hurdles, high jump and long jump,[6] and also won a long jump event at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, with a best jump of 20 feet 10.5 inches (6.36 m).[1] As a result of her success, Walls was a winner of the 1969 BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year award, along with Bernard Gallacher.[6]
Walls competed for Scotland in the high jump event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, winning the bronze medal, and is the only Scottish high jumper to have won a Commonwealth Games medal.[7][6] In 1970, she had the best performance by a European in a long jump competition, after jumping 21 feet 3 inches (6.48 m). She was also ranked number two in Europe for pentathlon, and in the top six in Europe for the high jump.[8]
Walls competed in the high jump at the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, finishing 31st.[9] In 1977, Walls broke the Scottish national high jump record, after clearing a height of 1.83 metres (6 ft 0 in). She was the first Scottish woman to clear a height of over 6 foot.[2]
Family
[edit]Her daughter Lindsey Maguire competed for Great Britain in rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Triumph for Moira". The Guardian. 9 October 1969. p. 20. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Thompson's Day". The Guardian. 8 August 1977. p. 16. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Hyman Back In Glory". Sunday Mirror. 20 July 1969. Retrieved 5 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ^ a b c Gillon, Doug (15 June 2012). "There's more to rowing than simply pulling on an oar, says Olympian elect Maguire". The Herald. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Forsyth, Paul (16 June 2013). "Commonwealth Games: Scotland's high jumpers primed". The Scotsman. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Marilyn picks Jamaica". The Guardian. 19 August 1970. p. 14. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Moira Walls". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "There's more to rowing than simply pulling on an oar, says Olympian elect Maguire". The Herald. 15 June 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
External links
[edit]- 1952 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Glasgow
- Scottish female high jumpers
- British female high jumpers
- Scottish female long jumpers
- British female long jumpers
- British pentathletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen