Mary Bignal Rand

Mary Bignal Rand

British track and field athlete
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Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal on 10 February 1940) is a former English track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field. She remains the only Great Britain female athlete to win three medals in a single Games

Personal life Around 1960 Bignal dated Dutch decathlete Eef Kamerbeek. In 1961 she met rower Sid Rand. Three days after meeting she agreed to marry him and they married five weeks later. They had a daughter, Alison. The marriage lasted five years.

In December 1969, she married her second husband, American Bill Toomey, the 1968 Olympics' decathlon champion. This marriage lasted 22 years and they had two daughters, Samantha and Sarah. She later married John Reese and lives with him in Atascadero, California, in the United States. She holds dual UK/US citizenship.

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Mary Bignal Rand was born on Saturday, 10 February 1940 in Wells, England UK. Her full name at birth was Mary Denise Bignal. She is best known as a professional track and field athlete. Rand's country of citizenship (nationality) is British. She is 5' 8" (173 cm) tall and weighs 134 lbs (61 kg) with an athletic build. Mary Bignal Rand is 84 years old and her zodiac star sign is Aquarius.

You can find people similar to Mary Bignal Rand by visiting our lists Olympic female pentathletes and English female triple jumpers.

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Mary Denise Bignal
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1964 Summer Olympics
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10 February 1940
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Wells, England UK
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Mary Bignal Rand is known for her role in the TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) as Self.

She is also known for her role in the TV series Call My Bluff (1965) as Self.

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