Jane Parry
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| Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1964 Ellesmere Port, Cheshire | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Trafford | ||||||||||||||
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Jane Louise Parry (born 1964) is a female former track and field athlete who competed for England in the 400 metres.[1]
Early life
[edit]She went to The Whitby High School,[2] living at 2 Woodland Road. [3] She was sponsored by BNFL at Capenhurst.[4] She had six months in Tucson at the University of Arizona on an athletics scholarship.[5] She went to Chester College.[6]
Athletics career
[edit]She flew to the 1984 Olympics, after a late addition to the team, but was told that she was not in the team three days before the race.
Parry represented England in the 4 x 400 metres relay event with Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Linda Keough and Angela Piggford, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[7][8][9]
By 1989 she was called Jane Wedgewood .
References
[edit]- ^ "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
- ^ "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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