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Yvette Williams
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yvette Winifred Corlett, Yvette Corlett, Yvette Winefred Williams, Dame Yvette Corlett, Mrs Yvette Winifred Corlett, Dame Yvette Winifred Corlett
New Zealand athlete
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- The Women of the Bible and You
- Love Like I've Never Been Hurt
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-02-08
Discography
- The John Towner Touch1957
- World on a String1957
- Rhythm in Motion1961
- How to Steal a Million1966
- Williams: Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble / Penderecki: Pittsburgh Overture / Mayuzumi: Music with Sculpture1970
- Music for Cello and Piano1974
- Jaws: Original Motion Picture Score1975
- Music From John Williams' Classic Film Scores: Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Star Wars1978
- Pops in Space1980
- Pops on the March1980
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 27
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,499x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 28,961x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,397x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,295x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Yvette Winifred Williams , ( 1929-04-25 ) 25 April 1929, Dunedin , New Zealand
- Died
- 13 April 2019 (2019-04-13) (aged 89), Auckland , New Zealand
- Height
- 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Spouse
- Charles Armistice Corlett ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; died 2015 )
- Relative
- Roy Williams (brother)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Sport
- Track and field
- Coached by
- Jim Bellwood
- National finals
- Long jump champion (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954), Shot put champion (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954), Discus champion (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954), Javelin champion (1950), 80 m hurdles champion (1954)
- Personal best s
- 200 m – 25.0 (1951), LJ – 6.28 m (1954), SP – 13.96 m (1954), DT – 47.85 m (1954)
via Wikipedia infobox
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Dame Yvette Winifred Corlett DNZM MBE (née Williams; 25 April 1929 – 13 April 2019) was a New Zealand track-and-field athlete who was the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal and to hold the world record in the women's long jump. Williams was named "Athlete of the Century" on the 100th anniversary of Athletics New Zealand, in 1987.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yvette Williams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.