{{Short description|British athlete}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Janet Honour<br>née Oldall | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|09|01|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hammersmith, London | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = pentathlon | height = | weight = | club = Woking AC | pb = }}
'''Janet Lee Honour''' née '''Janet Oldall''' (born 1950), is a female former athlete who competed for England.
== Biography == Oldall became the national pentathlon champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1967 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19670702/480/0023 |title=Board may forgive Anne |work=Sunday Express |date=2 July 1967 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 March 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=1 March 2025}}</ref>
After finishing second behind Mary Peters at the 1970 WAAA Championships, she represented England at the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, finishing sixth in the high jump.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970/athletes |title=Edinburgh 1970 Team |website=Team England |access-date=28 February 2025 }}</ref>
Oldall married George Honour in late 1970 and competed under her married name thereafter,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=244604425:3364&d=bmd_1740370513 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=1 March 2025 }}</ref> which started with her regaining the national pentathlon title at the 1971 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=1 March 2025 }}</ref>
Three years later she represented England in the 100 metres hurdles and pentathlon events, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/christchurch-1974|title=1974 Games|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/christchurch-1974/athletes|title=Athletes, 1974 England team|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40172|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=26 September 2019|archive-date=26 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926182906/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40172|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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