Jane Parry
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1964[1] Ellesmere Port, Cheshire | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Events | 200m, 400m | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Trafford AC | ||||||||||||||
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Jane Louise Parry (born 15 November 1964) is a female former track and field athlete who competed for England in the 400 metres.[2]
Biography
[edit]Parry attended The Whitby High School,[3] and lived at 2 Woodland Road.[4] She was sponsored by BNFL at Capenhurst.[5] She had six months in Tucson at the University of Arizona on an athletics scholarship.[6] She went to Chester College.[7]
Parry finished third behind Michelle Scutt in the 200 metres event at the 1983 WAAA Championships.[8][9]
At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she represented Great Britain flying in as a late addition to the team, but was told that she was not in the team three days before the race.[10]
Parry finished third behind Kathy Cook in the 400 metres event at the 1986 WAAA Championships[11] and the following month represented England in the 4 x 400 metres relay event with Kathy Cook, Linda Keough and Angela Piggford, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[12][13][14]
By 1989 she was called Jane Wedgewood.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ↑ "Profile". The Power of 10.
- ↑ Chester Chronicle Friday 8 July 1977, page 9
- ↑ Chester Chronicle Friday 22 July 1977
- ↑ Chester Chronicle Friday 6 March 1981, page 27
- ↑ Chester Chronicle Thursday 23 December 1982, page 26
- ↑ Chester Chronicle Friday 17 June 1983, page 24
- ↑ "Athletics". Sunday Express. 31 July 1983. Retrieved 16 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ↑ "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ↑ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ↑ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "England team in 1986". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
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