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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1929-03-21</span>)</span>21 March 1929<br /><span class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>, New Zealand</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">5 July 2011<span style="display:none">(2011-07-05)</span> (aged 82)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Spouse</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Alan Gibson</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #CCCC99;">Sport</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">New Zealand</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sport</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Track_and_field" title="Track and field">Track and field</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #CCCC99;">Achievements and titles</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">National finals</th><td class="infobox-data">220 yards champion (1948, 1951, 1952, 1953)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #CCCC99;"><div class="mw-collapsible" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"> <div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="line-height:1.6em; background-color:#ccf; font-size:105%; background-color:transparent;"><div style="margin:0 4em;">Medal record</div></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="font-size:105%"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151960987">body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox table{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox caption{display:table-caption}</style> <table class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; background-color:#f9f9f9; color:#000000; font-weight:normal"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" 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(sport)">athletics</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/British_Empire_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="British Empire Games">British Empire Games</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Silver medal – second place"><img alt="Silver medal – second place" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span></td> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/1950_British_Empire_Games" title="1950 British Empire Games">1950 Auckland</a></span></td> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><a href="/wiki/1950_Commonwealth_Games#Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="1950 Commonwealth Games">440 yards relay</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div></th></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lesley Martha Gibson</b> (née <b>Rowe</b>, 21 March 1929 – 5 July 2011) was a New Zealand sprinter who, as Lesley Rowe, won a silver medal representing her country at the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_at_the_1950_British_Empire_Games" title="New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games">1950 British Empire Games</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_family">Early life and family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesley_Rowe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rowe was born in the <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a> suburb of <a href="/wiki/Grey_Lynn" title="Grey Lynn">Grey Lynn</a> on 21 March 1929, the daughter of Lawrence John Rowe and Clarice Rowe (née Downs).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was educated at <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Girls%27_Grammar_School" title="Epsom Girls' Grammar School">Epsom Girls' Grammar School</a> from 1943 to 1946, and was a <a href="/wiki/Prefect#Academic" title="Prefect">prefect</a> in her final year.<sup id="cite_ref-EGGS_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EGGS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Athletics">Athletics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesley_Rowe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Athletics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rowe won the New Zealand national 220 yards sprint title four times: in 1948, 1951, 1952, and 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-Hollings_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hollings-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1949, she finished second, and was the leading New Zealander, behind <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Strickland" title="Shirley Strickland">Shirley Strickland</a> from Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-Hollings_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hollings-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/1950_British_Empire_Games" title="1950 British Empire Games">1950 British Empire Games</a> in Auckland, Rowe won the silver medal in the women's 440 yards relay alongside <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Hardman" title="Shirley Hardman">Shirley Hardman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dorothea_Parker" title="Dorothea Parker">Dorothea Parker</a>, with a time of 48.7 seconds, which broke the previous Empire Games record.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also competed in the 220 yards, finishing sixth in the final.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 660 yards relay, Rowe was in the New Zealand team alongside <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Dowman" title="Ruth Dowman">Ruth Dowman</a>, Dorothea Parker and Shirley Hardman, but the quartet was disqualified after crossing the finish line in second place, as the baton was dropped and incorrectly retrieved at the final exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life_and_death">Later life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesley_Rowe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rowe married Robert Alan Gibson, and the couple went on to have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-Death_notice_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Death_notice-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She died on 5 July 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-EGGS_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EGGS-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having been predeceased by her husband.<sup id="cite_ref-Death_notice_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Death_notice-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesley_Rowe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1939: <a href="/wiki/Decima_Norman" title="Decima Norman">Decima Norman</a> <small>(AUS)</small></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1940–1941: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gladys_Symes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gladys Symes (page does not exist)">Gladys Symes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1942–1944: <i>not held</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1945–1946: <a href="/wiki/Joan_Hart" title="Joan Hart">Joan Hart</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: J. 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class="nowrap">1968–1969: <a href="/wiki/Penny_Hunt" title="Penny Hunt">Penny Haworth</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background: silver;">200 metres</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1970–1971: <a href="/wiki/Penny_Hunt" title="Penny Hunt">Penny Hunt</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gail_Wooten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gail Wooten (page does not exist)">Gail Wooten</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Wendy_Brown_(sprinter)" title="Wendy Brown (sprinter)">Wendy Brown</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gail_Wooten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gail Wooten (page does not exist)">Gail Wooten</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Penny_Hunt" 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