June Foulds

She became June Paul upon marrying British Olympic fencer Raymond Paul.[3] Their son Steven Paul also became an Olympic fencer[1] and another son Barry Paul won a Commonwealth Games gold medal. 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]

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

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 alongside Dorothy Hyman, Madeleine Weston, and Heather Armitage and placed fourth in the 220 yards and fifth in the 100 yards.[1]