| Moira Walls | |||||||
| National Team: | Scotland, United Kingdom | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 4 May 1952 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||
| Occupation: | High jumper, long jumper, pentathlete | ||||||
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| Updated: | 7 July 2017 | ||||||
Moira Lindsay Maguire Walls (born 4 May 1952), is a Scottish former high jumper, long jumper and pentathlete. She won a bronze medal in the high jump at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Walls is from Milngavie near Glasgow, Scotland.[1] Her daughter Lindsey Maguire competed for Great Britain in rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[2]
Walls was a member of Edinburgh Southern Harriers athletics club.[3] In 1969, Walls became Scottish national champion in the hurdles, high jump and long jump, and also won a long jump event at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, with a best jump of 20feet.[1] Walls competed in the high jump event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. She won the bronze medal, and is the only Scottish high jumper to have won a Commonwealth Games medal.[4] [5] In 1970, she had the best performance by a European in a long jump competition, after jumping 21inchesft3inchesin (ftin). She was also ranked number two in Europe for pentathlon, and in the top six in Europe for the high jump.[6]
Walls competed in the high jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, finishing 31st.[7] In 1977, Walls broke the Scottish national high jump record, after clearing a height of 1.83m (06feet). She was the first Scottish woman to clear a height of over 6 foot.[3]
Walls was a winner of the 1969 BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year award, along with Bernard Gallacher.[5]