What was her name?

What is the name of one of Australia's greatest female olympic runners ?(now has ms known as "The Lithgow Flash")

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Her Excellency Marjorie Jackson-Nelson,
AC, CVO, MBE

Governor of South Australia

Born in 1931, Marjorie Jackson (later Marjorie Jackson-Nelson) is well known throughout Australia for her outstanding athletic achievements, and for her work in raising money for leukaemia research.

Nicknamed the "Lithgow Flash" after the New South Wales town in which she was brought up, Marjorie Jackson won two Olympic gold medals (Helsinki 1952) and seven Commonwealth Games gold medals. Between 1950 and 1954 she won every State and Australian title for the 100 yards, 100 metres, 220 yards and 200 metre sprints. Marjorie was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal for track and field and the first Australian (male and female) to win an Olympic gold medal on the running track since 1896. During her athletic career Marjorie Jackson broke world sprint records on ten occasions.

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Marjorie Jackson

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