In 1964, she became the first from her country to win a gold medal in track and field, in the long jump, becoming a celebrity in the Beatles era. Mary Rand training in 1962. (Getty Images)Credit ...

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The first British woman to win an Olympic athletics gold medal with her long jump victory at the 1964 Tokyo Games One of the true “golden girls” of the swinging 60s, Mary Rand, who has died aged 86, ...

Rand won gold, silver and bronze medals at Tokyo 1964 Mary Peters pays tribute to ‘most gifted athlete ever’ Mary Rand, the British track and field athlete who blazed a trail for women by winning ...

Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold in athletics, has died aged 86. She won the long jump title when she competed at the Tokyo Games in 1964. Rand, who was born in Wells, ...

Mary Rand, the trailblazing British athlete who became the first woman from the UK to clinch an Olympic track-and-field gold medal, has died at the age of 86. Known as the original golden girl of ...

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Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, has died at the age of 86. Rand secured the long jump title at the Tokyo Games in 1964, also winning silver in the ...

Mary Rand secured the first track and field gold by a British female athlete at the Olympic Games Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, has died at the age of ...

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