Marjorie Francis Okell, ''later Harris'' (1 April 1908 – 3 October 2009) was an international track and field athlete from

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...

. Her main event was the

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

in which she placed 6th at the 1934 Empire Games.Matthews P. and Watman M. ''Athletics International'' Vol. 17 - October 13, 2009. She was also British Athletics Champion in high jump in 1929 and 1931.BRITISH ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 1919-1939
/ref> Her personal best was in 1931. She later became a life-president of the Women's Amateur Athletic Association (of Great Britain), dying in 2009 aged 101 years.

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1908 births 2009 deaths British female high jumpers English female high jumpers Commonwealth Games athletes for England Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games British women centenarians 20th-century English sportswomen {{England-highjump-athletics-bio-stub