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Sep 27, 1924 99 years old
Australian javelin thrower
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About Charlotte Macgibbon
- Charlotte Cecilia MacGibbon (née Weeks on 27 September 1924) is an Australian former track and field athlete.In 1940, MacGibbon won her first national title in the javelin throw, aged just 15.
- In total, she won six national championships between 1940 and 1952, including two in the discus throw; she also placed third in the shot put in 1947.
- At the 1950 British Empire Games she became the first Australian athlete to win an international throwing event, taking the javelin with a distance of 38.84 m.In 2006, at the age of 81, she participated in the 2006 Commonwealth Games Queen's baton relay.
