| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sheila Hilary Hoskin | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1936-10-14) 14 October 1936 (age 88) Hammersmith, London, England | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Sheila Hilary Hoskin (born 14 October 1936) is a former female track and field athlete from England.
Athletics career
Hoskin competed in the women's long jump events during her career. She represented Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. She represented England and won a gold medal in the long jump at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.
At one point Hoskin held the British record for the long jump.
She was born in Hammersmith.
She had 3 children and 5 grandchildren.
References
- "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "1958 Athletes". Team England.
- "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
| Commonwealth Games champions in women's long jump | |
|---|---|
|
 | This biographical article relating to English athletics is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- 1936 births
- Living people
- English female long jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- British female long jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- People from Hammersmith
- Athletes from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen
- English athletics biography stubs