Jannette Roscoe
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1946-06-10) 10 June 1946
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Sport
SportSprinting
Event400 metres
Medal record
Athletics
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1974 Christchurch 4x400m relay

Jannette Veronica Roscoe (née Champion; born 10 June 1946) is a female British sprinter.


Early life

She grew up in Hale, Greater Manchester, when in Cheshire.

Teaching career

In June 1970 she taught at Weaverham Secondary School.[1]

After marriage 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.[2]

She taught PE at Countesthorpe College. The village parish council offered to fund their food.[3]

By 1977 she was teaching PE at Trent Polytechnic, and by 1978 she was at Widnes.[4] She taught Widnes Sixth Form College, now Riverside College, Widnes.[5]

Athletics career

Roscoe competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[6]

She also represented England in the 400 metres, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[7][8] Four years later she 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.[9][10][11]

Personal life

She married on 19 August 1970 at Altrincham, shortly after the Commonwealth games, when both were 24. Dennis Roscoe, a discus athlete, was from Woodland Avenue, Widnes Cheshire.[12][13]

She was born with two sets of six toes.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Runcorn Guardian Thursday 25 June 1970, page 22
  2. ↑ Leicester Mercury Wednesday 16 February 1972, page 28
  3. ↑ Leicester Mercury Friday 10 March 1972, page 14
  4. ↑ Liverpool Echo Wednesday 21 June 1978, page 20
  5. ↑ Widnes Weekly News Friday 9 July 1982, page 18
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
  8. ↑ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
  9. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  10. ↑ "1974 Games". Team England.
  11. ↑ "Athletes, 1974 England team". Team England.
  12. ↑ Widnes Weekly News Friday 11 August 1972, page 21
  13. ↑ Liverpool Echo Thursday 20 August 1970, page 7
  14. ↑ Leicester Chronicle Friday 5 May 1972, page 6


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