Barbara Simmonds
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 October 1961 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | high jump | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Oxford City AC | ||||||||||||||
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Barbara Aileen Simmonds (born 10 June 1961), is a female former athlete who competed for England.
Biography
[edit]Simmonds represented England in the high jump, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.[1] The following year, Simmonds became the British high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1979 WAAA Championships.[2]
Simmonds regained the WAAA high jump title at the 1982 WAAA Championships[3][4] and shortly afterwards she represented England at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, winning a bronze medal in the high jump event.[5][6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "1978 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletics Results". Sunday Express. 29 July 1979. Retrieved 14 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "Christchurch 1974 Team". Team England. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "1982 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
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- 1961 births
- English female high jumpers
- British female high jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen
- English athletics biography stubs