{{Short description|British sprinter (born 1946)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Jannette Roscoe<br>née Champion | birth_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Sprinting/400 metres | club = Stretford AC | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|6|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Royal Tunbridge Wells, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =169 cm | weight =56 kg | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Athletics}} {{MedalCountry| {{GBR2}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Summer Universiade}} {{MedalBronze|1967 Tokyo|200m}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalGold| 1974 Christchurch | 4x400m relay}} }}
'''Jannette Veronica Roscoe''' (née '''Champion'''; born 10 June 1946) is a female British retired sprinter who competed at two Olympic Games.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/janette-roscoe-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041753/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/janette-roscoe-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Jannette Roscoe Olympic Results |accessdate=2 August 2017}}</ref>
== Biography == Champion, born with two sets of six toes,<ref>''Leicester Chronicle'' Friday 5 May 1972, page 6</ref> grew up in Hale, Greater Manchester and in June 1970 taught at Weaverham Secondary School.<ref>''Runcorn Guardian'' Thursday 25 June 1970, page 22</ref>
Champion represented England in the 400 metres, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970/athletes|title=1970 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970|title=Edinburgh, 1970 Team|publisher=Team England}}</ref> Shortly after the Commonwealth Games, Champion married Dennis Roscoe, a discus athlete, was from Woodland Avenue, Widnes Cheshire.<ref>''Widnes Weekly News'' Friday 11 August 1972, page 21</ref><ref>''Liverpool Echo'' Thursday 20 August 1970, page 7</ref> on 19 August 1970 at Altrincham and competed under her married name thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=244702224:7052&d=bmd_1740370513 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=6 March 2025 }}</ref>
Roscoe became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1971 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19710718/021/0021 |title=Women's AAA Results |work=Sunday Sun (Newcastle) |date=18 July 1971 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=6 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=6 March 2025}}</ref>
At the 1972 Olympics Games in Munich, she represented Great Britain, Roscoe competed in the women's 400 metres.<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68622 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=5 March 2025}}</ref>
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.<ref>''Leicester Mercury'' Wednesday 16 February 1972, page 28</ref> She taught PE at Countesthorpe College. The village parish council offered to fund their food.<ref>''Leicester Mercury'' Friday 10 March 1972, page 14</ref>
Roscoe regained the 400 metres title at the 1973 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=6 March 2025 }}</ref>
Roscoe represented England and 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40585|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=13 August 2019|archive-date=13 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813140502/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40585|url-status=dead}}</ref><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>
At the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, she represented Great Britain in the 4 × 400 metres Relay.<ref name=oly/>
By 1977 she was teaching PE at Trent Polytechnic, and by 1978 she was at Widnes.<ref>''Liverpool Echo'' Wednesday 21 June 1978, page 20</ref> She taught Widnes Sixth Form College, now Riverside College, Widnes.<ref>''Widnes Weekly News'' Friday 9 July 1982, page 18</ref>
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