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.
You can find people similar to Mary Bignal Rand by visiting our lists Olympic female pentathletes and English female triple jumpers.
Full name at birth | Mary Denise Bignal
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Claim to fame | 1964 Summer Olympics
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Date of birth | 10 February 1940
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Place of birth | 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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