Mary Rand - The Trailblazing Olympic Champion Who Captured Mick Jagger's Eye

Rand, who was calved successful Wells, Somerset, connected 10 February 1940, was a prodigious talent, attending Millfield School connected a sports danasiwa earlier being expelled aft going to Paris pinch her past fellow and becoming engaged.

She burst connected to nan world segment astatine 18 pinch agelong jump metallic astatine nan 1958 Commonwealth Games successful Cardiff, and group a British grounds connected her Olympic debut successful Rome successful 1960.

Four years later and now a woman and mother to nan first of her 3 daughters, Rand group an Olympic grounds pinch her first-round jump. Her last jump of 6.76m collapsed nan world record.

In an era of amateurism, each her occurrence came erstwhile she was moving part-time successful nan postal agency astatine a Guinness mill successful London.

She was described arsenic "Marilyn Monroe connected spikes" by a erstwhile nationalist athletics coach and besides caught nan oculus of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

"I was astatine nan BBC 1 time and nan Beatles were there. I met 2 of them - Ringo [Starr] and George [Harrison] I think," Rand told Sky Sports successful 2023.

"And past Mick Jagger - I ne'er really met him, but they asked him if he could spell connected a day pinch anybody and he said it would beryllium me."