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Sharon Corbett (married name Sharon Avann) (born 1953), is a former athlete who competed for England.
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Sharon Corbett (married name Sharon Avann) (born 1953), is a former athlete who competed for England.
She represented England and won a bronze medal in the javelin event, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] [2] [3]
The Commonwealth Games are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, have successively run every four years since. The Games were called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events and four years later they became the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
Scotland is one of only six countries to have competed in every Commonwealth Games since the first Empire Games in 1930. The others are Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and Wales.
William John Hartley is an English former athlete.
Myrtle Sharon Mary Augee is a female retired English shot putter. Augee now works as a custodial manager in a prison and received an MBE in the Queen’s 2009 birthday honours list.
Susan Whetnall is a former English badminton player, noted for her anticipation and shot-making ability, who won numerous international titles in doubles and mixed doubles from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s. She was married to another English former international player, Paul Whetnall, from 1968 until his death in May 2014.
Sharon Susan RendleMBE is a retired female judoka from the United Kingdom.
Margaret Beck is a retired badminton player from England who ranked among the world's best during most of the 1970s.
Andrew 'Howard' Payne was an English Olympic track and field athlete. He specialised in the hammer throw event during his career.
Sharon Angela Gibson is an English former athlete who competed in the women's javelin throw event during her career.
Michael 'Mike' Archer Winch is a male retired British shot putter.
Alan Leslie Lerwill was a male British international long jumper.
Jannette Veronica Roscoe is a female British sprinter.
Patricia Barbara Lowe-Cropper is a British middle-distance runner. She competed in the 800 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. She was appointed MBE in the 1974 Birthday Honours.
Sharon Denise Lee is a retired British judoka.
George Newton was a male weightlifter who competed for England and Great Britain, and then for New Zealand at the end of his career.
England competed at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 24 January - 2 February 1974.
Ruth Kennedy, is a female former athlete who competed for England.
Susan Pettett, is a female former athlete who competed for England.
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