Daphne Arden

Daphne Arden

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1964 Tokyo	4x100 metre relay
European Championships
	1962 Belgrade	4×100 m relay
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
	1962 Perth	4×110 yd relay
	1966 Kingston	4×110 yd relay

Daphne Arden (top left) passes the baton to Dorothy Hyman in the Women's 4x100m Relay Final at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

Daphne Arden (married name Slater; born 29 December 1941) is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.

Personal life

Daphne Arden was born in Birkenhead. She was educated at Moseley Secondary Modern School in Birmingham.

Athletics career

She competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 200 metres, finishing 8th in the final; and in the 4 x 100 metres, where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Janet Simpson, long jump gold medallist Mary Rand and Dorothy Hyman.

She represented England and won a silver medal in the 4 × 110 yards relay at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. She repeated the achievement fours years later by winning another silver at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

References

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daphne Arden". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2010.