Margaret Parker (javelin thrower)
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Representing  Australia
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1966 Kingston | Javelin throw |
Margaret Adele Parker-Koscik (born 30 June 1949) is an Australian former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
She emerged as a junior at national level in the mid-1960s, coming second at the national junior championships in 1964, then returning to win in 1965. At senior level she was twice runner-up at the Australian Athletics Championships, first in 1965 then again in 1971.[1]
Parker's sole major international achievement was a gold medal at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Kingston, Jamaica. She defeated former champion and fellow Australian Anna Pazera in the final, throwing the spear 51.38 m (168 ft 6+3⁄4 in) to top the podium.[2]
She married fellow Australian athlete Sig Koscik in 1972.
References
[edit]- ^ Margaret KOSCIK (Parker) (NSW) Female b. 30 Jun 1949[usurped]. Australian Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-02-21.
- ^ Commonwealth Games Medalists (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-02-21.
Commonwealth Games champions in women's javelin throw | |
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Categories:
- Living people
- 1949 births
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Australian female javelin throwers
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen