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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]
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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]
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]
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 .
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