Robyn Edna Lorraway, née Strong (born 20 July 1961) was an Australian long jumper from Australia winning medals at the Commonwealth Games and competing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
As Robyn Strong, she moved from Victoria to become an inaugural Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship holder. She was coached by Kelvin Giles.[2]
Strong won the British WAAA Championships title in the long jump event at the 1982 WAAA Championships[3][4][5] and later that year at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, she won the silver medal in the women's long jump.
After the Games, she married Ken Lorraway.[1] At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she finished sixth in the final on the women's long jump.[1] At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, she won the bronze medal in the long jump.[1]
She won the Australian national Women's Long Jump title in 1983, 1984 and 1986.[1] At the national titles, she came second in the Women's 100 m hurdles from 1979 to 1982.[1]
Her husband Ken died suddenly in 2007.[6] They had three children - two boys Alex and Sebastian and a daughter Madeline. Alex has followed in his father's footsteps as a triple jumper.[6] In 1985, she was ACT Female Sportstar of the Year.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Robyn Lorraway". Athletics Australia Historical Database. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ "Australian Institute of Sport Annual Report". 1981. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "It's agony for Sonia". Sunday Express. 1 August 1982. Retrieved 15 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ^ a b "Vale - Ken Lorraway (1956-2007)". Athletics Australia News, 5 January 2007.
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