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Debbie Brill
Debbie Brill in competition at the XXth Summer Olympic Games in Munich, September 1972, photographer unknown

One of the top high jumpers in the world during the late 1960s and 1970s, Debbie Brill (born 1953) was an innovator with her unique jumping style, known as the “Brill Bend.” A free spirit in a technical sport, her greatest moment came at the World Cup in Montreal in 1979, when she beat the world’s best high jumpers with a jump of 1.96 metres.


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