Gillian Dainty
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 November 1958 Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | middle-distance | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Birchfield Harriers | ||||||||||||||
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Gillian Green (née Dainty) (born 24 November 1958), is a female former athlete who competed for England.
Biography
[edit]Dainty became the British 1500 champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships[1] and retained her title the following year at the 1981 WAAA Championships.[2]
Dainty represented England and won a silver medal in the 1,500 metres, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia.[3]
Dainty married Ian Green in Walsall in 1983 and competed under her married name thereafter[4] and shortly afterwards won her third WAAA title at the 1983 WAAA Championships.[5]
Three years later she represented England in the 1,500 metres event again, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics". Sunday Express. 17 August 1980. Retrieved 14 March 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "1982 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Marriages". Free BMD. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
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- 1958 births
- English female middle-distance runners
- British female middle-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Living people
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen
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