Linsey Macdonald
Linsey Macdonald ( Tarrel Linsey Macdonald, born February 12, 1964) is a former British sprinter.
Only 16 years old, she qualified in 1980 with a British record over 400 m for the Olympic Games in Moscow, where she reached the final and was eighth. In the 4 x 400 - meter relay, the unusually slender for their discipline athlete (1.60 m, 44 kg) was used as the first leg in that part of the competition, which runs in fixed orbits to avoid physical contact with their competitors. The British quartet, which was also from Michelle Probert, Joslyn Hoyte -Smith and Donna Hartley, the bronze medal erlief.
To ensure that the height of her sporting career was reached, because with increasing training effort made to create their injuries. In 1981, she won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championships. The following year, she was disqualified at the European Athletics Championships in Athens in the flow and took in the 4 x 400 - meter relay of the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane Bronze with the Scottish team.
Linsey Macdonald launched for the Pitreavie AAC. After training as a chemical engineer, she began studying medicine. Today she lives with her husband and two sons in Hong Kong, where she has worked as a family doctor.