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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 147. Not illustrated. Chapters: Decima Norman, Jack Metcalfe, Sandy Duncan, Jim M. Courtright, Wally Hayward, William Roberts, Aileen Meagher, Eileen Wearne, Stan Lay, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Pat Boot, Cecil Matthews, Barbara Burke, Jeanette Dolson, John Loaring, Scotty Rankine, Joe Haley, Basil Dickinson, Doris Carter, Bill Fritz, Tom Lavery, Denis Shore, Peter Ward, Eric Coy, Cyril Holmes, Alf Watson, Gladys Lunn, Thelma Peake, Lee Orr, Johannes Coleman, Frank Handley, Larry O'connor, Dora Gardner, Andries Du Plessis, Bert Norris, Lawrence Wallace, Donald Robertson, Edwin Thacker, Brian Maccabe, Dorothy Saunders, Robina Higgins, Howard Yates, Ethel Raby, Margaret Bell, Gerald Backhouse, Jackie Gibson, Fred Woodhouse, Jean Coleman, Kate Stokes, Ken Richardson, Winnifred Jeffrey, James Leckie, Ted Best, Graham Quinn, Alan Sayers, Bill Dale, Arnold Anderson, Rona Tong, Harold Brown, Harold Tyrie, Teddy Hampson, Lloyd Miller, John Mumford, Henry Pack, Joan Woodland, Elizabeth Forbes, Louis Fouche. Excerpt: Decima Norman MBE (9 September 1909 29 August 1983) was an Australian athlete, who won five gold medals at the 1938 British Empire Games. Born Clara Decima Norman in Tammin, Western Australia, Decima's parents died when she was young, and she was adopted by her brother and his wife, who lived in Perth. She participated in several sports at school, and was named champion athlete at Perth College in 1923. A lack of organised competition and training for female athletes in the 1920s saw Norman take up hockey, although she continued to train herself in track and field athletics until 1932, when she was spotted by former professional athlete Frank Preston, who saw her potential and offered to train her. Norman's improving times, and several victories in the WA state titles, prompted Preston to consider her to represent Australia in the 19...
