{{Short description|British athlete (born 1941)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Use British English|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Daphne Arden<br>(married name Slater) | image =File:Daphne_Arden,_Dorothy_Hyman,_Willye_White,_Edith_McGuire,_Halina_Górecka,_Ewa_Kłobukowska_1964.jpg | caption =Daphne Arden (top left) passes the baton to Dorothy Hyman in the Women's 4 × 100 m Relay Final at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Sprints | club = Birchfield Harriers | birth_date = 29 December 1941 | birth_place = Birkenhead, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =167 cm | weight =60 kg | pb = | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport | Women's Athletics}} {{Medal|Country | {{GBR2}} }} {{Medal|Competition |Olympic Games}} {{Medal|Bronze | 1964 Tokyo | 4x100 metre relay}} {{Medal|Competition | European Championships }} {{Medal|Bronze | 1962 Belgrade | 4 × 100 m relay}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }} {{MedalSilver | 1962 Perth | 4 × 110 yd relay}} {{MedalSilver | 1966 Kingston | 4 × 110 yd relay}} }} '''Daphne Arden''' (married name '''Slater'''; born 29 December 1941) is a British retired athlete who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ar/daphne-arden-1.html |title=Daphne Arden |website=Sports-Reference |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035934/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ar/daphne-arden-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |accessdate=2010-01-24}}</ref>
== Biography == Daphne Arden was born in Birkenhead<ref>[https://www.teamgb.com/athlete/daphne-arden/5zvSnHh8RU1TS93WX0wGpa "Daphne Arden"]. ''Team GB''. Retrieved 17 January 2022.</ref> and was educated at Moseley Secondary Modern School in Birmingham.
Arden finished third behind Jennifer Smart in the 100 and 220 yards events at the 1961 WAAA Championships,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001816/19610709/027/0027 |title=Britain find a stand-in for Carole - From Australia |work=Birmingham Weekly Mercury |date=9 July 1961 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref> before finishing second and third respectively in the same events the following year at the 1962 WAAA Championships, but this time behind Dorothy Hyman.<ref name=NUTS>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=22 February 2025}}</ref>
Later in November 1962, she represented England and won a silver medal in the 4 × 110 yards relay at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/perth-1962/athletes|title=1962 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref>
Arden once again finished behind Dorothy Hyman in the 100 yards at the 1963 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref> before finally becoming the national 100 yards champion and national 220 yards champion at the 1964 WAAA Championships and breaking the national records for both in the process.<ref name=NUTS/> She then competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan in the 200 metres, finishing 8th in the final; and in the 4 × 100 metres, where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Janet Simpson, long jump gold medallist Mary Rand and Dorothy Hyman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68597 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=22 February 2025}}</ref>
In 1965, Arden married Roger Slater in Solihull and competed under her married name thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=233005986:4953&d=bmd_1737698379 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref>
Slater then regained her WAAA title at the 1966 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19660703/799/0027 |title=Fleet-footed Anne has that gold-medal look |work=Sunday Express |date=3 July 1966 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 March 2025 }}</ref> and one month later won another silver medal for the England team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/39739|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=29 July 2019|archive-date=29 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729153757/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/39739|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kingston-1966/athletes |title=Kingston 1966 Team |website=Team England |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref>
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