By Daniel Etchells

Dorothy Tyler was a two-time Olympic silver medallist ©Getty ImagesDorothy Tyler, the first woman from Great Britain to win an individual Olympic medal in athletics, has died aged 94.

Tyler remains Britain's most decorated female Olympic high jumper having won silver medals at the Berlin 1936 and London 1948 Games.

She competed at four Games in all and was the only British woman to win an Olympic medal both before and after World War Two.

Dorothy Tyler was only 16 years old when she won a silver medal at the Berlin 1936 Olympics ©Getty ImagesDorothy Tyler was only 16 years old when she won a silver medal at the Berlin 1936 Olympics ©Getty Images




Her first major international gold medal came with victory at the British Empire Games in Sydney in 1938, a year before she set a world record of 1.66 metres, and she retained her title 12 years later in Auckland.

Tyler was made an MBE at the age of 81 and inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.