Jannette Roscoe
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 June 1946 Royal Tunbridge Wells, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprinting/400 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Stretford AC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jannette Veronica Roscoe (née Champion; born 10 June 1946) is a female British retired sprinter who competed at two Olympic Games.[1]
Biography
[edit]Champion, born with two sets of six toes,[2] grew up in Hale, Greater Manchester and in June 1970 taught at Weaverham Secondary School.[3]
Champion represented England in the 400 metres, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4][5] Shortly after the Commonwealth Games, Champion married Dennis Roscoe, a discus athlete, was from Woodland Avenue, Widnes Cheshire.[6][7] on 19 August 1970 at Altrincham and competed under her married name thereafter.[8]
Roscoe became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1971 WAAA Championships.[9][10]
At the 1972 Olympics Games in Munich, she represented Great Britain, Roscoe competed in the women's 400 metres.[11]
She lived at 102 Leicester Road in Fleckney in Leicestershire. Both her and her husband were teachers, where they drank 49 pints of milk a week - one pint at each meal, on a diet with lots of meat and cheese. She ate one pound of meat each day. Their food cost £8 a week. But Kraft Foods had sponsored the Olympic team, giving £2 of cheese a week to the 139 athletes. The couple found it difficult to afford their food each week. She trained 10 hours a week at Saffron Lane sports ground, and he trained 10 hours a week. At the weekend they trained at Loughborough, and in Charnwood Forest. If they lived in Germany, as an A-class athlete, she would receive £100 a month funding, and as a B-class athlete, he would receive £70 a month.[12] She taught PE at Countesthorpe College. The village parish council offered to fund their food.[13]
Roscoe regained the 400 metres title at the 1973 WAAA Championships.[14]
Roscoe represented England and won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with Ruth Kennedy, Sue Pettett and Verona Bernard, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[15][16][17]
At the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, she represented Great Britain in the 4 × 400 metres Relay.[11]
By 1977 she was teaching PE at Trent Polytechnic, and by 1978 she was at Widnes.[18] She taught Widnes Sixth Form College, now Riverside College, Widnes.[19]
References
[edit]- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jannette Roscoe Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ↑ Leicester Chronicle Friday 5 May 1972, page 6
- ↑ Runcorn Guardian Thursday 25 June 1970, page 22
- ↑ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
- ↑ Widnes Weekly News Friday 11 August 1972, page 21
- ↑ Liverpool Echo Thursday 20 August 1970, page 7
- ↑ "Marriages". Free BMD. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ↑ "Women's AAA Results". Sunday Sun (Newcastle). 18 July 1971. Retrieved 6 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- 1 2 "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ↑ Leicester Mercury Wednesday 16 February 1972, page 28
- ↑ Leicester Mercury Friday 10 March 1972, page 14
- ↑ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 13 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ↑ "1974 Games". Team England.
- ↑ "Athletes, 1974 England team". Team England.
- ↑ Liverpool Echo Wednesday 21 June 1978, page 20
- ↑ Widnes Weekly News Friday 9 July 1982, page 18
Commonwealth Games champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay | |
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- British women sprinters
- English women sprinters
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Olympic women sprinters
- Sportspeople from Royal Tunbridge Wells
- People from Hale, Greater Manchester
- Sportspeople from Trafford (district)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
- 20th-century English sportswomen