 Daphne Arden (top left) passes the baton to Dorothy Hyman in the Women's 4 × 100 m Relay Final at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) |
| Born | (1941-12-29)29 December 1941 (age 83) Birkenhead, England |
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprints |
| Club | Birchfield Harriers |
Daphne Arden (married nameSlater; born 29 December 1941) is a British retired athlete who competed at the1964 Summer Olympics.[1]
Daphne Arden was born inBirkenhead[2] and was educated atMoseley Secondary Modern School inBirmingham.
Arden finished third behindJennifer Smart in the 100 and 220 yards events at the1961 WAAA Championships,[3] before finishing second and third respectively in the same events the following year at the1962 WAAA Championships, but this time behindDorothy Hyman.[4]
Later in November 1962, she representedEngland and won a silver medal in the 4 × 110 yards relay at the1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games inPerth, Western Australia.[5]
Arden once again finished behind Dorothy Hyman in the 100 yards at the1963 WAAA Championships[6] before finally becoming thenational 100 yards champion andnational 220 yards champion at the1964 WAAA Championships and breaking the national records for both in the process.[4] She then competed forGreat Britain in the 1964 Olympic Games held inTokyo, Japan in the200 metres, finishing 8th in the final; and in the4 × 100 metres, where she won the bronze medal with her team matesJanet Simpson, long jump gold medallistMary Rand and Dorothy Hyman.[7]
In 1965, Arden married Roger Slater in Solihull and competed under her married name thereafter.[8]
Slater then regained her WAAA title at the1966 WAAA Championships[9] and one month later won another silver medal for theEngland team at the1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.[10][11]
