biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Athlete, born in Wells, Somerset, SW England, UK. She set the first of her six British records at the pentathlon at the age of 18 in the European Championships in 1958, the same year she won the Commonwealth Games long jump. She set British records at the long jump, the 100 yards, and the 80 m hurdles. She went on to win the long jump again at the 1966 Commonwealth Games. She was Women's Amateur Athletics Champion at the high jump in 1958, long jump in 1959, 1961, and 1963–65, 80 m hurdles in 1959, 100 m hurdles in 1966, and the pentathlon in 1959–60. |
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