# Janet Honour

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{{Short description|British athlete}}
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| name             = Janet Honour<br>née Oldall
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| nationality      = British (English)
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1950|09|01|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = Hammersmith, London
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| sport            = [Athletics](/source/Sport_of_Athletics)
| event            = pentathlon
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| club             = Woking AC
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'''Janet Lee Honour''' née '''Janet Oldall''' (born 1950), is a female former athlete who competed for England.

== Biography ==
Oldall became the [national pentathlon champion](/source/List_of_British_champions_in_decathlon%2Fheptathlon) after winning the British [WAAA Championships](/source/WAAA_Championships) title at the [1967 WAAA Championships](/source/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](/source/Mary_Peters_(athlete)) at the [1970 WAAA Championships](/source/1970_WAAA_Championships), she represented [England](/source/England_at_the_1970_British_Commonwealth_Games) at the British Commonwealth Games in [Edinburgh](/source/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](/source/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](/source/England_at_the_1974_British_Commonwealth_Games) in the 100 metres hurdles and pentathlon events, at the [1974 British Commonwealth Games](/source/1974_British_Commonwealth_Games) in [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), [New Zealand](/source/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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Category:1950 births
Category:English women high jumpers
Category:British women high jumpers
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Living people
Category:English women hurdlers
Category:British women hurdlers
Category:British pentathletes
Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for England
Category:People from Hammersmith
Category:Athletes from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Category:20th-century English sportswomen

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