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Sue Reeve
Born 17 September 1951
Susan Diane Reeve (née Scott; born 17 September 1951 in Birmingham, West Midlands ) is a former female track and field athlete from England .[1]
Early life [ edit ]
She took part in the 1968 Olympics as 16 year old school girl at
Hodge Hill Girls' Grammar School .[2] [3] [4]
She took Religious Knowledge and Geography A-level, and wanted to be a primary school teacher.[5]
Athletics career [ edit ]
She competed in the women's long jump , pentathlon and heptathlon during her career. She represented Great Britain at three Summer Olympics : 1968, 1976 and 1980.
As Sue Scott she competed in the 1968 Olympics and in 1969 competed in the pentathlon at the 1969 European Athletics Championships in Athens . One year later she represented England in 100 metres hurdles and pentathlon events, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh , Scotland .[6] [7] [8]
By the end of 1970 she had damaged tendons in her left foot, severing two tendons to the ankle, needing an operation, not competing for two years.
She married Kevin Reeve in May 1971, aged 19.[9]
In 1978 she won a gold medal in the long jump, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton , Canada,[10] [11]
Either side of this success she appeared in two more Olympic Games, competing in the long jump.
Retirement [ edit ]
She had been hoping to go to the 1982 Commonwealth Games, then retire, but a weight training injury to her back, in 1978, caused her to retire early in April 1981, aged 28, after medical X-ray examinations.[12]
Personal life [ edit ]
In 1976 she lived in Cotton Green in Tamworth.[13]
References [ edit ]
^ Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 3 September 1968, page 11
^ Birmingham Daily Post Friday 5 June 1970, page 20
^ Times Wednesday, September 4 1968
^ Times Friday October 11 1968, page 9
^ "1970 Athletes" . Team England.
^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team" . Team England.
^ Birmingham Daily Post Saturday 11 July 1970, page 16
^ Birmingham Daily Post Monday 4 June 1973, page 22
^ "Athletes and results" . Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019 .
^ Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 16 August 1978, page 3
^ Birmingham Mail Thursday 30 April 1981, page 56
^ Coleshill Chronicle Friday 18 June 1976, page 26
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