Debbie Arden Brill, OC (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian high jump athlete who at the age of 16 became the first North American woman to clear 6 feet.

She finished 8th in the 1972 Summer Olympics, then quit the sport in the wake of the Munich massacre, returning three years later.

[1] She developed her style of jumping as a preteen on the family farm when her father made a landing pit containing foam rubber.

"[2] The technique, which involved jumping over the bar with her face to the sky and landing on her back, was dubbed the "Brill bend".

Brill won the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and was presented with the gold medal by Queen Elizabeth.

At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, she was eliminated after failing three times at the opening height and was criticized for laughing in a subsequent interview, although she wrote afterwards that she was disappointed by her failure.

Having been ranked number one in the world by Track and Field News in 1979, Brill was one of the favourites going into the 1980 Olympics which Canada boycotted because of the U.S.S.R.'s military involvement in Afghanistan.

[6] In January 1982, Brill established a World Indoor High Jump record of 1.99 meters in Edmonton, Alberta, 5 months after giving birth to her first son Neil.

The only female high jumpers with more top ten rankings are Inha Babakova and Stefka Kostadinova, both with thirteen.