| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1933 (age 90–91) | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Valentine Arthur Horne
(m. 1959) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Relative(s) | Matt Horne (son) Phil Horne (son) Ben Horne (grandson) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| National finals | High jump champion (1950, 1953) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Noelene Rae Horne (née Swinton; born 1933) is a former New Zealand high jumper.
At the 1950 British Empire Games she won the bronze medal in the women's high jump. At the following 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she placed 5th in the high jump.
In 1959, she married Valentine Arthur Horne, who served as manager of the New Zealand badminton team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The couple went on to have six children, including cricketer Matt Horne, and Phil Horne, who represented New Zealand in both badminton and cricket.
References
- Noelene Swinton at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- ^ "Swinton Family Society". Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- "Games section managers". The Press. Vol. 105, no. 31067. 24 May 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
External links
- Profile at trackfield.brinkster.net
- Noelene Swinton at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
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