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'''Robina Higgins-Haight''' (28 April 1915 – 31 December 1990) was one of [[Canada]]'s best female athletes in the 1930s.

From [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], Higgins excelled in the javelin, shot put, and ball throw competition. In the javelin, she set a Canadian record throw of {{convert|131|ft|11.75|in|m}} in 1938. This mark stood until 1952. In a 1935 ball throw event, she set a record of {{convert|222|ft|2|in|m}}, a distance that was unsurpassed until 1947.

During her brief career, Higgins won nine national titles and was given the [[Velma Springstead Trophy]] as the country's outstanding female athlete in 1937. In addition to three titles in javelin and ball throw, two in shot put, and one in discus, during national and abbreviated Canadian competition, Higgins also won the gold medal in the javelin event at the [[1938 British Empire Games]] in [[Sydney, Australia]]. She was inducted into the [[Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>http://www.halloffame.mb.ca/honouredmembers/inductee.php?id=50</ref>

She died in Winnipeg on 31 December 1990 and posthumously inducted into the [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |url=http://www.sportshall.ca/stories.html?proID=564|website=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=22 October 2017}}</ref>

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[[Category:Canadian female javelin throwers]]
[[Category:Canadian female shot putters]]
[[Category:Track and field athletes from Winnipeg]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games]]
[[Category:Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian sportswomen]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics]]

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