Katrina Gibbs is a retired Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 athlete, who specialised in the High Jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

. She married fellow nationally ranked High Jumper, David Morrow (Retired).

Gibbs won two Australian High Jump national championships - in 1978 and 1982. In both years, she was duly selected in Australia's Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

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 team.

In the 1978 Edmonton Games

1978 Commonwealth Games

The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3 to 12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec...

 Gibbs achieved her career highlight, winning the High Jump in an Australian and Commenwealth record of 1.93m and defeating local Canadian

Canada

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 favourite Debbie Brill

Debbie Brill

Debbie Brill OC is a Canadian high jump athlete who was the first North American woman to clear 6 feet, at age 16. Her unique reverse jumping style was called the "Brill Bend"...

. This also gave her the Australian Junior Record, which after thirty years, has not been bettered.

As a result of this achievement she was ranked seventh in the world by Track and Field News magazine.

Along with David Morrow, Gibbs is currently coaching High Jump with the Sydney Boys High School Athletics team.