Elsie Green

Green became the national 80 metres hurdles champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1931 WAAA Championships and setting a world record in a time of 12.0 sec.^[2] Green successfully defended her title the following two years at the 1932 WAAA Championships^[3] and the 1933 WAAA Championships.^[4][5][6]

Green represented England at the 1934 Empire Games, where she won the bronze medal in the 80 metre hurdles event.^[7] Green won her fourth and fifth WAAA hurdles titles at the 1934 WAAA Championships and the 1935 WAAA Championships respectively.^[8]

In 1935, she married another athlete Thomas F. Plimmer.^[9]

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