Sue Hearnshaw

Sue Hearnshaw
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games

Susan Christina Richardson (née Hearnshaw, formerly Telfer, born 26 May 1961) is a British retired athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. She won the 1984 Olympic bronze medal in the long jump, having won the European Indoor title a few months earlier. Her long jump best of 6.83 metres in 1984, ranks her eighth on the UK all-time list.

Athletics career

Born Susan Hearnshaw in Liversedge, West Yorkshire, she competed for Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, U.S. in the long jump where she won the bronze medal. Her mother, Muriel Pletts, had competed in the first post-war Summer Olympic Games in London in 1948, finishing fourth as part of the British women's 4 x 100 metre relay team.^[1]

She represented England in the long jump event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[2] Four years later she represented England again in the long jump event, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.^[3]^[4] Hearnshaw achieved her legal best in the long jump with 6.83 metres on 6 May 1984. She also jumped a wind-assisted 7.00 metres when winning the UK Championship title on 27 May 1984.

Personal life

A graduate of Loughborough University, she subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Great Britain / England
1977	European Junior Championships	Donetsk, Soviet Union	12th	Long jump	5.54 m
1978	Commonwealth Games	Edmonton, Canada	4th	Long jump	6.40 m
1978	European Championships	Prague, Czechoslovakia	16th (q)	Long jump	6.25 m
1979	European Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	Long jump	6.46 m
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	9th	Long jump	6.50 m
1981	Universiade	Bucharest, Romania	5th	Long jump	6.53 m
1981	Universiade	Bucharest, Romania	2nd	4 × 100 m	43.86
1982	Commonwealth Games	Brisbane, Australia	5th	Long jump	6.50 m
1984	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	Long jump	6.70 m
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	3rd	Long jump	6.80 m (w)
(q) Indicates overall position in qualifying round

References

^ Sam Knight (9 June 2012). "The Olympians: Muriel Pletts, Great Britain". Financial Times Magazine.
^ "1978 Athletes". Team England.
^ "1982 Athletes". Team England.
^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.

Kubatko, Justin. "Sue Hearnshaw Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2010.