About Kathy Smallwood-Cook
Kathryn Jane Cook is a former athlete, specialising in sprint and sprint relays. She is one of the most successful female sprinters in British athletics history. She is three-times an Olympic bronze medallist, including at 400 metres in Los Angeles 1984. Her other individual achievements include winning the 200m at the 1981 Universiade, finishing second in the 100m at the 1981 World Cup, and winning a bronze medal in the 200m at the 1983 World Championships. She is also three-times a winner of the British Athletics Writers' Association Female Athlete of the Year Award (1980–82). Cook held the UK National records for 100m, 200m and 400m for over 25 years. Smallwood's first major competition was the 1977 European Junior Championships in Donetsk, where she won three medals, bronze in the 100 & 200 metres and a silver in the sprint relay. In Prague, representing Great Britain, the same quartet won a silver medal in the sprint relay. Additionally Smallwood became both the British 100 metres champion and British 200 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships titles at the 1978 WAAA Championships. In 1979, at the World Student Games (Universiade) she won three silver medals.
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