Beverley Goddard

Beverley Lanita Callender (nee Goddard) (born 28 August, 1956) is a British athlete who competed for Great Britain and Reading Athletic Club mainly in the 100 metres 200 metres and 4x100m Relay.

She represented Great Britain in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Heather Hunte, Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Sonia Lannaman there they set a British Record which still stands 28 years on.

She also competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Simone Jacobs, Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Heather Oakes.

The 1983 relay team of Joan Baptiste, Kathy Cook, Beverley and Shirley Thomas won a silver in the first ever World Athletics Championship sprint relay final. Beverley ran a superb leg as usual however the favourites the GDR romped home by nearly a second.

In fact the Great Britain women's 4x100 m relay team never lost out on a major championship medal from 1978- 1984 including European and Commonwealth honours.

Beverley usually ran the third leg and became a specialist in this position, as is evident all her major medals came as a member of the sprint relay team. Modern U.K Womens sprint relay teams have not come close to emulating these achievements all the more remarkable as many of their rivals at this time were competing illegally.

Beverley a teacher is still active at Reading Athletic Club and is found each week coaching athletes there.

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Personal Bests

100 m 11.48 -0.60 Helsinki, FIN 07/08/1983

4x 100 Relay 42.43 Moscow, RUS 1/08/1980