Katrina Gibbs (born 7 April 1959 in Hay,

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) is a retired

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, who specialised in the

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. She married fellow nationally ranked High Jumper, David Morrow (Retired). Gibbs won two Australian High Jump national championships - in 1978 and 1982. In both years, she was duly selected in Australia's

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team. In the 1978 Edmonton Games Gibbs achieved her career highlight, winning the High Jump in an Australian and Commonwealth record of 1.93m and defeating local

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. This also gave her the Australian Junior Record, which stood for 35 years until being bettered in 2013. As a result of this achievement she was ranked seventh in the world by

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magazine. A trained school teacher, Gibbs currently teaches at Eastwood Public School in Sydney. Along with David Morrow, Gibbs coached High Jump with the Sydney Boys High School Athletics team for 9 years from 2006 to 2015. She has been an active athletics official since 2013 at State, National and Oceania level, including officiating at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

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1959 births Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Australian female high jumpers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Living people Sportswomen from New South Wales Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Australian Athletics Championships winners {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub