Dixie Willis
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Dixie Isabel Willis (later Booth, then Ingram) (born 13 December 1941 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Australian middle distance runner, who won the gold medal in the women's 880 yards event at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. She was selected to compete over 800 metres for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At Rome in 1960 she was leading the final with 70 metres remaining when she fell off the track. She then regained the track to finish last.[1] In 1964 at Tokyo she was unable to compete due to injury.[2]
On 3 March 1962 she set world records for 800 metres (2:01.2) and 880 yards (2:02.0) in narrowly beating Marise Chamberlain (2:01.4 and 2:02.3) who also beat the previous world records.
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| Preceded by | Women's 800 metres World Record Holder 1962-03-03 – 1964-10-20 |
Succeeded by Ann Packer |
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- Australian middle-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- 1941 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Track and field athletes from Western Australia
