Career
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.
In 1964 at Tokyo she was unable to compete due to injury.
On 3 March 1962 she set world records for 800 metres (2:012) and 880 yards (2:020) in narrowly beating Marise Chamberlain (2:014 and 2:023) who also beat the previous world records.
