Doris Carter

Doris Jessie Carter, OBE (5 January 1912 – 28 July 1999) was an Australian military officer, public servant, and athlete who specialised in the high jump. She was ranked as one of the top 3 Women's high jumpers from 1934 to 1936. She was the first Australian female track and field athlete to compete in an Olympic Games final. She was inducted into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame in 2022.

Carter placed 6th in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and also competed in the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. She won six National Championships at high jump (1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940) and two at discus throw (1936, 1940) in her career.

Carter served as president of the Victorian Women's Amateur Athletic Association (1945–48) and Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union (1948) and (1952–61). In 1956 Carter was the Assistant Manager to the Australian Olympic Team during the Melbourne Olympic Games.

Carter was also prominent with the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force during the Second World War and, on the raising of the Women's Royal Australian Air Force in 1951, she was appointed the service's director. She retired from the post in 1960. Carter co-led the Anzac Day Parade at Melbourne in the mid-1990s.