Beverly Weigel
{{Short description|New Zealand athlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2017}}
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| caption = Weigel in 1957
| birth_name = Beverly Dawn Edith Weigel
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|8|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
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| education = Kelston High School
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| height = {{convert|164|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|53|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
| country = New Zealand
| sport = Long jump
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Beverly Dawn Edith Weigel (born 16 August 1940), with her first name commonly misspelled as Beverley and since her marriage known as Beverly Robertson, is a New Zealand athlete. Mainly active as a long jumper, but also as a sprinter, she represented her country at the 1956 Summer Olympics, the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Life
NZ sprinter [[Maurice Rae and Weigel in 1957|thumb|left]]
Weigel was born in 1940 in Auckland, New Zealand.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Beverly Weigel |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/beverly-weigel-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174718/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/beverly-weigel-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 31 August 2017 }} She received her education at Kelston High School (now Kelston Girls' College, but co-ed at the time).{{cite book |editor1-last=Owen |editor1-first=R. E. |title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives, Volume 350 |date=1967 |publisher=Government Printer |location=Wellington |page=424 |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2940056;view=1up;seq=7 |access-date=31 August 2017}} Described as a "phenomenal athlete", she won the New Zealand senior women's long jump title at age 15.{{cite news |title=Athletics: Rule's wacko for Jacko |url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10773823 |access-date=30 August 2017 |work=Herald on Sunday |date=18 December 2011}} This secured her a place on the New Zealand Olympic team for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and she is listed as New Zealand Olympian number 126. Of the nine track and field athletes who represented the country, she was the youngest at age 16.{{Cite sports-reference |title = New Zealand Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1956/ATH/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417094422/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1956/ATH/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 31 August 2017 }} She competed in long jump and of 19 competitors, she came 7th.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's Long Jump |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/ATH/womens-long-jump.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173553/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/ATH/womens-long-jump.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 31 August 2017 }} In 1957, she set a world junior record with a long jump of {{convert|6.23|m}} in Auckland – a distance that would have won her a silver medal at the 1956 Olympics.{{cite news |title=Athletics: Teen pole vault sensation sets junior world record |url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11564039 |access-date=30 August 2017 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=21 December 2015}}
At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Weigel competed in three events. In the women's long jump, she placed eights.{{cite web|title=Beverley Robertson|date=9 February 2016|url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/beverley-robertson|publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee|access-date=31 August 2017}} In the 100 yards women's race, she was eliminated in the heats. With Mary Donaghy, Margaret Stuart, and Marise Chamberlain, she competed in the 4x110 yards relay and they came 4th. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, she was one of New Zealand's fourteen track and field athletes.{{Cite sports-reference |title = New Zealand Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1960/ATH/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417115401/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NZL/summer/1960/ATH/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 31 August 2017 }} Again competing in the long jump, she came 10th from 30 competitors.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's Long Jump |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/womens-long-jump.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173553/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/womens-long-jump.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 31 August 2017 }}
On 9 February 1957 Beverly beat the 1949 Junior World Best by 11 cm at a meet in Papakura. She was also only 12 cm under the Women's Open World Record. This performance was never officially recognised as a record.{{cite web |url=http://www.anzrankings.org.nz/userfiles/file/ANZ_Almanac_2011.pdf |title=Athletics New Zealand Almanac 2011}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170406112113/http://www.olympic.org.nz/media/images/athletics-team-photo-for-the-games-of-the-xvi-olympiad-melbourne-1956-back-row-m-rae-a-richards-n-scott-n-read-m-halberg-front-row-v-young-m-stuart-c-thompson-j-donaghy-b-robertson-photo-new-zealand-olympic-museum-collection/ Team photo] of the New Zealand athletes at the 1956 Summer Olympics
{{1956 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1958 New Zealand British Empire and Commonwealth Games team}}
{{1960 New Zealand Olympic team}}
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Category:People educated at Kelston Girls' College
Category:Olympic athletes for New Zealand
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for New Zealand
Category:Athletes from Auckland
Category:New Zealand female sprinters
Category:New Zealand female long jumpers