Marlene Mathews

Marlene Mathews
Mathews (center) at the 1956 Olympics
Personal information
Born14 July 1934 (1934-07-14) (age 90)
Sydney, New South Wales
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventSprint
ClubWestern Suburbs AAC, Sydney
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m – 11.4 (1956)
200 m – 23.3 (1958)
400 m – 56.7 (1957)[1][2]
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Melbourne 100 metres
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Melbourne 200 metres
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff 100 yards
Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff 220 yards
Silver medal – second place 1958 Cardiff 4×110y relay

Marlene Judith Mathews AO (later Willard; born 14 July 1934) is a retired Australian Olympic sprinter. She has been described as 'one of Australia's greatest and unluckiest' champions.[3]

Early career

Mathews attended Fort Street High School in Sydney and began competing in athletics in the late 1940s.

At the 1950 Australian Championships, she placed fourth, behind Shirley Strickland, in the 80 m hurdles and ran in the winning state relay team,[4] but was not selected for the 1950 British Empire Games team.

A few days after her 16th birthday at the NSW Championships, she ran a great race at the New South Wales Championships 100 yards final, placing second to world record-holder Marjorie Jackson and beating four members of the Australian Empire Games team, including Olympic medalist Strickland.[5]

Mathews was considered a certainty to gain selection to the 1952 Summer Olympics before a leg injury forced her out of competition.[6]

International career

Matthews (left) in 1960 with Betty Cuthbert

In 1954, recovered from her injuries, she ran second to Jackson in the National 100 yards championship (and third in the 220 yards)[4] and was duly selected to run in her first international championships at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. She was unlucky again, breaking down injured in her heat of the 100 yards.[1][4]

At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, she won two bronze medals, over 100 metres and 200 metres. In both races she was beaten by countrywoman Betty Cuthbert (gold) and German Christa Stubnick (silver).[1][4]

In a controversial move, she was left out of the gold-medal winning Australian 4×100 metres relay team as she was 'not considered a good relay runner" but soon after the Games she assisted an Australian team to world records for 4×200 metres and 4×220 yards relay events.[7]

She proved her versatility in the sprint events by setting a new world record at 400 metres with 57.0 seconds on 6 January 1957.

On 20 March 1958, at the Australian Championships, she set a new world record over 100 yards with 10.3 seconds, and two days later she ran 220 yards in 23.4 seconds and set another world record.[4] In both races, she defeated world-record holder and Olympic champion Cuthbert.

At the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, Mathews took out the 100 yards and 220 yards, again beating Cuthbert.[1] She was ranked #1 in the world for both 100 metres[8] and 200 metres[9] in both 1957 and 1958.

Mathews' final competition was at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where she was eliminated in the 100 metres semi-finals.[1][4]

Personal details and honours

MV Marlene Matthews RiverCat departing Parramatta ferry wharf.

Mathews married fireman Barry Willard in 1958 but they later separated. She was an assistant manager of the Australian Olympic Team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.[3] She became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1979 for her services to athletics, and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1999. Mathews was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 [3] and into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame in 2010.[10] In 1993, the State Transit Authority named a RiverCat ferry after Matthews. In 2018 a bronze sculpture of her (and one of Betty Cuthbert) was unveiled at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, Australia.[11] This makes them the first female athletes added to the bronze sculptures in the Sydney Cricket Ground precinct.[12]

Statistics

Personal bests[5]

Event Time Wind Place Date
100 y 10.3 0.0 Sydney, Australia 20 March 1958
100 m 11.5 – Sydney, Australia 10 March 1956
200 m 23.4 0.0 Sydney, Australia 22 March 1958
220 y 23.4 0.0 Sydney, Australia 22 March 1958
400 m 57.0 – Sydney, Australia 6 January 1957
440 y 57.0 – Sydney, Australia 6 January 1957

World Records[5]

Event Time Place Date
100 y 10.3 Sydney, Australia 20 March 1958
200 m 23.4 Sydney, Australia 22 March 1958
400 m 57.0 Sydney, Australia 6 January 1957
440 y 57.0 Sydney, Australia 6 January 1957
4 × 200 m 1–36.3 Sydney, Australia 5 December 1956
4 × 220 y 1–36.3 Sydney, Australia 5 December 1956

World Rankings – 100m[8] and 200m[9] – rankings commenced in 1956.

Year Event Ranking
1956 100m 3
200m 4
1957 100m 1
200m 1
1958 100m 1
200m 1
1959 100m 2
1960 100m 9

Australian Championships Record[4] – prior to 1963 Championships were held every two years

Year 100y 220y 80m hurdles 4×110y relay
1950 – – 4 1
1952 – – – –
1954 2 3 – 1
1956 3 2 – 1
1958 1 1 – 1
1960 3 DNQ – 2

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Marlene Mathews-Willard. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ Marlene Willard (née Mathews). trackfield.brinkster.net
  3. ^ a b c Australian Biographical Database profile – Marlene Mathews. Womenaustralia.info. Retrieved on 1 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Marlene WILLARD (Mathews) (NSW). Athletics Australia profile
  5. ^ a b c "Athletics Gold profile". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Marlene Mathews. Sport Australia Hall of Fame
  7. ^ Australian Olympic Committee – Marlene Mathews vignette Archived 11 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Corporate.olympics.com.au. Retrieved on 1 March 2016.
  8. ^ a b Track & Field News World Rankings-100m Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Trackandfieldnews.com. Retrieved on 1 March 2016.
  9. ^ a b Track & Field News World Rankings-200m Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Trackandfieldnews.com. Retrieved on 1 March 2016.
  10. ^ "Athletics Australia Hall of Fame". Athletics Australia.
  11. ^ "Bronze sculptures of Australia's olympic athletes Betty Cuthbert and Marlene Mathews Photos and Images | european pressphoto agency". Epa.eu. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Cuthbert and Mathews our first ladies in bronze - Precinct". Scgt.nsw.gov.au. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2018.

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