Katrina Gibbs

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Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Flag of Australia Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold Edmonton 1978 High Jump

Katrina Gibbs (born 7 April 1959 in New South Wales) is a retired Australian track and field athlete, who specialised in the High Jump. She married fellow nationally ranked High Jumper, David Morrow (Retired).

Gibbs won two Australian High Jump national championships - in 1978 and 1982.[1] In both years, she was duly selected in Australia's Commonwealth Games team.

In the 1978 Edmonton Games Gibbs achieved her career highlight, winning the High Jump in an Australian and Commenwealth record[2] of 1.93m and defeating local Canadian favourite Debbie Brill.[3] This also gave her the Australian Junior Record, which after thirty years, has not been bettered. [4]

As a result of this achievement she was ranked seventh in the world by Track and Field News magazine. [5]

Along with David Morrow, Gibbs is currently coaching High Jump with the Sydney Boys High School Athletics team.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Athletics Australia profile
  2. ^ Commonwealth Games Medallists - Athletics (Women)
  3. ^ Results - 1978 Commonwealth Games (Sporting Heroes)
  4. ^ http://www.nswathletics.org.au/answ/results/records/nswrecords.pdf
  5. ^ Track & Field News - High Jump World Rankings


Sporting positions
Preceded by
Flag of Australia Christine Annison		 Women's Australian National Champion
1977 — 1978		 Succeeded by
Flag of Australia Vanessa Browne
Preceded by
Flag of Australia Christine Stanton		 Women's Australian National Champion
1981 — 1982		 Succeeded by
Flag of Australia Christine Stanton



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