Marian Fisher: Difference between revisions

Australian hurdler (born 1954

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| full_name = Marian O’Shaughnessy
| birth_name = Marian Fisher
| birth_date = November 6, 1954 (1954-11-06) (age 71)
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! colspan=”3″ style=”text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;color:inherit;” | Women’s athletics

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! colspan=”3″ style=”text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;color:inherit;” class=”adr” | Representing  Australia

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! colspan=”3″ style=”text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;” | Pacific Conference Games

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| style=”text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;” | || style=”text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;” | 1977 Pacific Conference Games|| style=”text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;” | 400 m hurdles
{{MedalGold | [[1977 Pacific Conference Games |400 m}}
{{MedalGold | [[1977 Pacific Conference Games |4×400 relay }}
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Marian O’Shaughnessy (née Fisher ; born November 9, 1954) is an Australian retired female track and field athlete. She competed in the 400 meters and 400 metres hurdles events. She won three gold medals at the 1977 Pacific Conference Games during her career.
Fisher was the first Australian woman’s champion at the 400m hurdles in 1976 and the first ro win a medal in an international competition with her gold at the 1977 Pacific Conference Games. At that competition she also won gold in the 4x100m and the 4x400m relays plus a bronze in the 400m.

Under her married name of O’Shaughnessy, Fisher won a further gold in the 4x400m relay and a bronze in the 400m at the 1981 Pacific Conference Games.

Fisher also represented Oceania in the 4x400m relay at the Athletics World Cup in 1977, 1979 and 1981.

In Australia, Fisher was [[List of Australian athletics champions (women)|three times champion in the 400m hurdles 1977-79 and 400m champion in 1977.

In 2021, Fisher as Marian O’Shaughnessy was elected as a Life Member of Athletics Australia.