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Jean Pickering

1929 - 2013

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Jean Catherine Pickering (née Desforges; 4 July 1929 – 25 March 2013) was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump. She won bronze medals at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games and is the only British woman to have won gold medals at the European Athletics Championships in both a track and a field event (4 × 100 m relay in 1950, long jump in 1954). During her career she set British records in the women's pentathlon and the long jump. She and her husband, Ron Pickering, had a lasting impact on British athletics, particularly through the Ron Pickering Memorial Fund, which provides support to young track and field athletes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Pickering is the 488th most popular athlete (up from 3,314th in 2019), the 3,163rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,779th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jean Pickering ranks 488 out of 6,025. Before her are Alice Brown, Boris Melnikov, Gisela Birkemeyer, Veikko Karvonen, Betty Robinson, and Veikko Kankkonen. After her are Rafer Johnson, Paavo Yrjölä, Milan Nenadić, Steinar Amundsen, Adolf Wiklund, and Wally Kinnear.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jean Pickering ranks 300. Before her are Hallgeir Brenden, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Haruo Nakajima, Don Murray, Hubert Dreyfus, and Lúcio Lara. After her are Henry E. Holt, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, József Tóth, Bob Hawke, Karl-Erik Palmér, and Rolan Bykov. Among people deceased in 2013, Jean Pickering ranks 258. Before her are Eric Ericson, Richard C. Sarafian, Krsto Papić, Ted Post, Daniel Duval, and Syd Field. After her are Storm Thorgerson, Imre Nagy, Jimmy Fontana, José Faria, Roman Vlad, and Aleksei Balabanov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jean Pickering ranks 3,164 out of 8,785. Before her are John Sims (1749), Sam Claflin (1986), Anthony Carlisle (1768), Jack Clayton (1921), Al Atkins (1947), and Nicky Hopkins (1944). After her are Blanche of England (1392), Alexander Neckam (1157), Johnny Haynes (1934), Thomas Girtin (1775), Stephen Daldry (1960), and William Donne (1876).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Jean Pickering ranks 20. Before her are Roger Bannister (1929), Harold Abrahams (1899), Bill Roberts (1912), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Edwin Flack (1873), and John Ainsworth-Davis (1895). After her are Wally Kinnear (1880), Ken McArthur (1881), Thelma Hopkins (1936), Norman Read (1931), Wyndham Halswelle (1882), and Eddie Owen (1886).

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