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June Foulds
June Foulds in 1952
Personal information
Birth nameJune Florence Foulds
Born(1934-06-13)13 June 1934
Shepherd's Bush, England
Died6 November 2020(2020-11-06) (aged 86)
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)100 m, 200 m
ClubSpartan Ladies
L.A.C., London
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m – 11.6 (1956)
200 m – 23.7 (1956)
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne 4×100 m
Bronze medal – third place 1952 Helsinki 4×100 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1950 Brussels 4×100 m
Bronze medal – third place 1950 Brussels 100 m
Representing  England
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff 4×110 yd

June Florence Paul (née Foulds; 13 June 1934 – 6 November 2020) was a British track and field sprint runner.

Early life

Foulds (left) and Raymond Paul in 1952

Born June Florence Foulds in Shepherd's Bush in 1934, she was brought up by her grandparents.

She originated from East Acton. She lived at 80 Fitzneal Street. She attended Burlington Grammar School on Wood Lane. She left school in 1951 aged 17.

Personal life

She married British Olympic fencer Raymond Paul. Their son Steven Paul also became an Olympic fencer and their nephew Barry Paul won a Commonwealth Games gold medal. She was the second wife of singer Ronnie Carroll, with whom she co-owned a successful club in Grenada in the 1970s, until political unrest halted tourism. They were to later divorce. Her third husband was Eric Reynolds, divorcing after two years. She ran a food stall and became a key figure in the development of the Camden Lock Markets, she ran several restaurants in London, including those trading as "Huffs". In 1993 she started running the "Hampstead Everyman Cinema", in Hampstead, London, turning the basement into a popular bar and restaurant, later selling the entire site to the Everyman Group.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 November 1958.

Foulds died at the age of 86.

Athletics career

Foulds competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a silver medal in the relay. Her best individual result was fifth place in the 200 m in 1956. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal in the 4×110 yd relay in a world-record time alongside Dorothy Hyman, Madeleine Weston, and Heather Armitage and placed fourth in the 220 yards and fifth in the 100 yards.

References

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  2. ^ "June Foulds: Athlete, media star and a true market force". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  3. "Trailblazing sprinter June Foulds dies". 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. June Paul (née Foulds). trackfield.brinkster.net
  5. ^ "Interview: Still doing her personal best at 60: In the Fifties June". The Independent. 7 December 1993. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  6. Daily Mirror Monday 11 July 1949, page 11
  7. Acton Gazette Friday 16 June 1950, page 2
  8. "June Paul". British Athletics. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  9. "Ronnie Carroll, singer and 'Eurovisionary' - obituary". The Telegraph. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  10. ^ "June Foulds: Athlete, media star and a true market force". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  11. "Desert Island Discs – Castaway : June Paul". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
European Athletics Championships champions in women's 4 × 100 metres relay
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