Alice Whitty

{{short description|Canadian high jumper}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

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{{MedalSilver| 1959 Chicago | High Jump}}

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{{MedalBronze| 1954 Vancouver | High Jump}}

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Alice Ann Doreen Simicak (née Whitty; March 24, 1934 – January 7, 2017) was a female high jumper from Canada, who represented her native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.{{cite Sports-Reference |name=Alice Whitty |quote=Full name: Alice Ann Doreen Whitty}} A resident of Richmond, British Columbia, she claimed the silver medal in the women's high jump event at the 1959 Pan American Games, alongside Chile's Renata Friedrichs.

Whitty died on January 7, 2017, in Richmond at the age of 82.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theprovince/obituary.aspx?pid=183575805|title=Alice Ann SIMICAK Obituary|work=legacy.com|date=January 12, 2017|accessdate=January 20, 2017}}

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