Charlotte Cecilia MacGibbon (née Weeks, 27 September 1924 – 10 January 2009) was an Australian former track and field athlete. In 1940, MacGibbon won her first national title in the javelin throw, aged just 15. In total, she won six national championships between 1940 and 1952, including two in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

; she also placed third in the

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...

in 1947. At the 1950

British Empire Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

she became the first Australian athlete to win an international throwing event, taking the javelin with a distance of 38.84 m. In 2006, at the age of 81, she participated in the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...

Queen's baton relay.Queen's baton relay
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1924 births 2009 deaths Australian female javelin throwers Australian female discus throwers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1950 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics 20th-century Australian women Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games Place of birth missing Australian Athletics Championships winners {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub