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Retford Household and General Antique auction
Lot 272:
very old book Gymnastik Atlas by J G Thulin signed by top athletes of the day and the author.
Book came from the collection owned by:
Jean Catherine Pickering MBE (née Desforges; 4 July 1929 – 25 March 2013)[1] was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump.
She won bronze medals at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games and is the only British woman to have won gold medals at the European Athletics Championships in both a track and a field event (4×100 m relay in 1950, long jump in 1954). During her career she set British records in the women’s pentathlon and the long jump.
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