Jannette Roscoe

She grew up in Hale, Greater Manchester, when in Cheshire.

In June 1970 she taught at Weaverham Secondary School.[1]

After marriage she lived at 102 Leicester Road in Fleckney in Leicestershire. Both her and her husband were teachers, where they drank 49 pints of milk a week - one pint at each meal, on a diet with lots of meat and cheese. She ate one pound of meat each day. Their food cost £8 a week. But Kraft Foods had sponsored the Olympic team, giving £2 of cheese a week to the 139 athletes. The couple found it difficult to afford their food each week. She trained 10 hours a week at Saffron Lane sports ground, and he trained 10 hours a week. At the weekend they trained at Loughborough, and in Charnwood Forest. If they lived in Germany, as an A-class athlete, she would receive £100 a month funding, and as a B-class athlete, he would receive £70 a month.[2]

She taught PE at Countesthorpe College. The village parish council offered to fund their food.[3]

By 1977 she was teaching PE at Trent Polytechnic, and by 1978 she was at Widnes.[4] She taught Widnes Sixth Form College, now Riverside College, Widnes.[5]

Roscoe competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[6]

She also represented England in the 400 metres, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[7][8] Four years later she won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with Ruth Kennedy, Sue Pettett and Verona Bernard, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[9][10][11]

She married on 19 August 1970 at Altrincham, shortly after the Commonwealth games, when both were 24. Dennis Roscoe, a discus athlete, was from Woodland Avenue, Widnes Cheshire.[12][13]

She was born with two sets of six toes.[14]