Jannette Roscoe

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(1946-06-10) 10 June 1946 Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Sport
Sport	Sprinting
Event	400 metres
Medal record Athletics Representing  England Commonwealth Games 1974 Christchurch 4x400m relay

Jannette Veronica Roscoe (née Champion; born 10 June 1946) is a female British sprinter.

Early life

She grew up in Hale, Greater Manchester, when in Cheshire.

Teaching career

In June 1970 she taught at Weaverham Secondary School.^[1]

After marriage she lived at 102 Leicester Road in Fleckney in Leicestershire. Both her and her husband were teachers, where they drank 49 pints of milk a week - one pint at each meal, on a diet with lots of meat and cheese. She ate one pound of meat each day. Their food cost £8 a week. But Kraft Foods had sponsored the Olympic team, giving £2 of cheese a week to the 139 athletes. The couple found it difficult to afford their food each week. She trained 10 hours a week at Saffron Lane sports ground, and he trained 10 hours a week. At the weekend they trained at Loughborough, and in Charnwood Forest. If they lived in Germany, as an A-class athlete, she would receive £100 a month funding, and as a B-class athlete, he would receive £70 a month.^[2]

She taught PE at Countesthorpe College. The village parish council offered to fund their food.^[3]

By 1977 she was teaching PE at Trent Polytechnic, and by 1978 she was at Widnes.^[4] She taught Widnes Sixth Form College, now Riverside College, Widnes.^[5]

Athletics career

Roscoe competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.^[6]

She also represented England in the 400 metres, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[7][8] Four years later she won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with Ruth Kennedy, Sue Pettett and Verona Bernard, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.^[9][10][11]

Personal life

She married on 19 August 1970 at Altrincham, shortly after the Commonwealth games, when both were 24. Dennis Roscoe, a discus athlete, was from Woodland Avenue, Widnes Cheshire.^[12][13]

She was born with two sets of six toes.^[14]

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