Doris Carter

Doris Carter
Doris Carter
Born	5 January 1912
Died	28 July 1999 (aged 87)
Allegiance	Australia
Service/branch	Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Doris Jessie Carter,

athlete who specialised in the high jump. She was the first Australian female track and field athlete to make an Olympic Games

final.

Carter placed 6th in the

National Championships at high jump (1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940) and two at discus throw

(1936, 1940) in her career.

Following her competitive career, Carter became involved in the administration of women's athletics both at State and National levels. She was President of the Victorian Womens Amateur Athletic Association from 1945 to 1948. Carter also served twice as President of the Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union, firstly in 1948 and again between 1952 and 1962.

In 1956 Carter was the Assistant Manager to the Australian Olympic Team during the Melbourne Olympic Games.

Carter was also prominent with the

Second World War and, on the raising of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force in 1951, she was appointed the service's director. She retired from the post in 1960. Carter co-lead the Anzac Day Parade at Melbourne

in the mid-1990s.

References

Athletics Australia Profile
Athletics Gold Profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009)

External links

Doris Carter at the Australian Olympic Committee
Doris Carter at Commonwealth Games Australia
Doris Carter at Olympics.com
Doris Carter at
Olympedia

Doris Carter at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)

Military offices
New office	Director of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force 1951–1960	Succeeded by Group Officer Lois Pitman

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