June Foulds

June Foulds

Foulds and Paul in 1952
Personal information
Born	13 June 1934 (1934-06-13) (age 84) Shepherd's Bush, England[1]
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 m, 200 m
Club	Spartan Ladies L.A.C., London
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m – 11.6 (1956) 200 m – 23.7 (1956)[1][2]
Medal record Representing  United Kingdom Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne 4×100 m 1952 Helsinki 4×100 m European Championships 1950 Brussels 4×100 m 1950 Brussels 100 m Representing  England British Empire and Commonwealth Games 1958 Cardiff 4×110 yd

June Florence Foulds (born 13 June 1934) is a retired British track and field sprint runner. She became June Paul upon marrying British Olympic fencer Raymond Paul.^[3] Their son Steven Paul also became an Olympic fencer.^[1] She was the second wife of singer Ronnie Carroll, with whom she owned an unsuccessful club in Grenada in the 1970s. They later divorced.^[4]

Foulds competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a silver medal in the relay. Her best individual result was fifth place in the 200 m in 1956. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal in the 4×110 yd relay in a World Record time along side Dorothy Hyman, Madeleine Weston, and Heather Armitage and placed fourth in the 220 yards and fifth in the 100 yards.^[1]

She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 November 1958.^[5]

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