Career
In 2011, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. Hyman was born in a family of a coal miner. When she was 17 she set a senior world record in 4×110 yard relay at the 1958 Commonwealth Games and finished second in the 4 × 100 m relay at European championships.
She retired shortly after the Olympics, wrote an autobiography in 1965, and got paid for that.
This payment prevented her from returning to amateur international competitions later in the 1960s, when she reconsidered her retirement. Instead she became an athletics coach at the Dorothy Hyman Track Club in her home town and occasionally competed at the national level
Later she worked in the administration of the National Coal Board and taught people with learning disabilities.