Kathy Smallwood-Cook
Kathy Cook (actually Kathryn Jane Smallwood, born Smallwood, May 3, 1960 in Winchester ) is a British sprinter and Olympic medalist.
She won at the Commonwealth Games in 1978 in Edmonton in the 4 x 100 -meter relay gold medal, 1982 in Brisbane, the silver medal in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m again the gold medal, and in 1986 in Edinburgh silver medal in the 200 m, in the 400 -meter run the bronze medal behind Debbie Flintoff (AUS) and Jillian Richardson (CAN ) and the gold medal in the 4 x 100 m and the silver medal in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. National British records they put 1981 on 100 meters with 11.1 seconds, 22.1 seconds in 1984 with more than 200 m, and with 49.43 seconds over 400 meters.
The European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, she won silver 4 × 100 m and at the European Championships 1982 in Athens silver over 200 m (from the German Bärbel Wöckel defeated ) and 4 × 100 m.
At the World Athletics Championships 1983, she won the bronze medal over 200 m behind Marita Koch ( GDR ) and Merlene Ottey (JAM ) and the silver medal in the 4 × 100 m.
Olympic medals she reached at the Games in Moscow in 1980 with a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 - meter relay with teammates Heather Hunte, Beverley Goddard and Sonia Lannaman and at matches in 1984 in Los Angeles with bronze medals in the 400m behind the two U.S. Valerie Brisco -Americans hooks ( gold) and Chandra Cheese Borough ( silver) and 4 × 100 m along with their teammates Simmone Jacobs, Callender (ex Goddard ) and Heather Oakes.
Kathy Cook started for the Reading Club Athletic. Like her husband, the former sprinter Garry Cook, she is a physical education teacher at the Mayfield Preparatory School in Walsall. The couple has three children.