{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name=Dixie Willis |birth_date=13 December 1941 |birth_place= |death_date= |death_place= |show-medals=yes |medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Women's Athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalGold| 1962 Perth | 880 yards}} }}
'''Dixie Isabel Willis''' ''(later Booth, then Ingram)'' (born 13 December 1941 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Australian middle distance runner, who won the gold medal in the women's 880 yards event at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. She was selected to compete over 800 metres for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At Rome in 1960 she was leading the final with 70 metres remaining when she fell off the track. She then regained the track to finish last.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174202/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/womens-800-metres.html Athletics at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Women's 800 metres]</ref> In 1964 at Tokyo she was unable to compete due to injury.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174202/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/womens-800-metres.html Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Women's 800 metres]</ref>
On 3 March 1962 she set world records for 800 metres (2:01.2) and 880 yards (2:02.0) in narrowly beating Marise Chamberlain (2:01.4 and 2:02.3) who also beat the previous world records. She broke the world record for the women's 440 yards in Brisbane in 1963 alongside Betty Cuthbert.<ref>{{Cite book|title='Themes and questions for historians of sport in Brisbane' In Fisher, Rod. (ed) Brisbane: archives and approaches|last=Routh|first=Spencer|publisher=Brisbane History Group|year=1983}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} *{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/dixie-willis-1.html |title=Dixie Willis |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831001048/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/dixie-willis-1.html |archivedate=2011-08-31 |df= }} {{s-start}} {{s-ach|rec}} {{succession box|before={{flagicon|URS}} Lyudmila Shevtsova|title=Women's 800 metres World Record Holder|years=1962-03-03 – 1964-10-20|after={{flagicon|GBR}} Ann Packer}} {{s-end}} {{Footer Commonwealth Champions 800m Women}}
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