Beverley Goddard

Beverley Lanita Callender ( née Goddard, born August 28, 1956, Barbados) is a British sprinter Barbadian origin, who specialized in the 200 -meter run, was an internationally successful but mainly as a relay runner.

Career

Callender joined at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 at over 200 meters, however, different in the quarter-final round. In the Commonwealth Games 1978 in Edmonton, she took starting for England to fourth place in the 200 - meter dash and fifth in the 100 -meter run. As a first leg of the British 4 x 100 - meter relay team won the gold medal together with Kathy Smallwood, Sharon Colyear and Sonia Lannaman. In the same line-up brought this quartet, now starting for the UK, just a few weeks later at the European Athletics Championships in Prague the silver medal behind the Soviet and East German team before.

At the Olympic Games in 1980 Callender won along with Heather Hunte, Kathy Smallwood - Cook and Sonia Lannaman the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay in a British national record time of 42.43 seconds. In addition Callender scored with sixth place in the 200 -meter run one of their most important individual results. In 1981, she won at the Universiade in Bucharest in the 100 -meter run. The European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, she won along with Wendy Hoyte, Kathy Smallwood and Shirley Thomas again the silver medal in the relay. Your success next season had Callender short time later at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Together with Kathy Smallwood, Sonia Lannaman and Wendy Hoyte she was responsible for the successful title defense for England.

Also in the first World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki Callender was successful again in the relay. Behind the vastly superior team in the GDR to Marita Koch and Marlies Goehr she finished with Joan Baptiste, Kathy Smallwood and Shirley Thomas in 42.71 seconds for second place. In the 100 - meter race she did not come, however, about the quarter-final round addition. A year later took Callender her second Olympic medal. As mentioned in the previous Olympic Games, it reached 1984 in Los Angeles in the British squadron along with Simmone Jacobs, Kathy Smallwood and Heather Hunte again the bronze medal.