Esther Brand’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African former athlete
A.K.A. Esther van Heerden, Esther Cornelia Brand
Was Athlete 
From South Africa 
Type Sports 
Gender female
Birth 29 September 1922, Springbok, Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape
Death 20 June 2015, Bloemfontein, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State, South Africa
(aged 92 years)

Esther Cornelia Brand (née van Heerden; 29 September 1922 – 20 June 2015) was a South African athlete. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the high jump, placing 20th in the discus throw. Brand was ranked world #1 in the high jump in 1940–41 and 1952, #3 in 1951 and #5 in 1939. In 1941 she equaled the world record of 1.66 m.

Born in Springbok, Northern Cape, she attended Maitland High School in Cape Town, South Africa. She died after a fall in 2015.

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