Charles 'Chilla' Porter, a champion high-jumper who won silver at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, has died after a long battle with cancer
Charles "Chilla" Porter, a champion high-jumper who won silver at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, has died after a long battle with cancer.
"Chilla" was a seven-time national champion and in 2011 was inducted into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame.In a statement on Sunday night, Mr Porter said his father, who also won silver medals at the 1958 and 1962 Empire Games, had died on Sunday aged 84. The 1956 Olympic high jump event went late into the evening with Australian Charles"Chilla" Porter claiming the silver medal.The contest transfixed a nation on the opening day of the 1956 Games, with the unknown six-foot-four Brisbane teenager taking part in what became the longest field event in Olympic history.
Chilla's father Charles Porter was a Queensland Liberal state MP between 1966 and 1980 and served in the ministry of Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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