{{Short description|British sprinter (born 1941)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Joy Grieveson | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = 400m/440y | club = Darlington Harriers | birth_date = 31 October 1941 | birth_place = Marylebone, London, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =167 cm | weight =62 kg | pb = | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport | Women's athletics}} {{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships }} {{MedalSilver| 1962 Belgrade | 400 m }} }}
'''Elizabeth Joyce "Joy" Grieveson''' (born 31 October 1941) from Darlington, England, is a retired track and field athlete.
== Biography == Grieveson finished third behind Maeve Kyle in the 440 yards event at the 1961 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001816/19610709/027/0027 |title=Britain find a stand-in for Carole - From Australia |work=Birmingham Weekly Mercury |date=9 July 1961 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref> and second behind Jean Sorrell in the same event at the 1962 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref>
During the same year of 1962, she won the silver medal in the women's 400 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, having taken a week's leave from work to compete.<ref name=Gap>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7158369.Gap_in_the_Wall_filled_at_last/ |title=Gap in the Wall filled at last |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=7 March 2006 |accessdate=24 December 2016}}</ref> She came in behind Maria Itkina of the Soviet Union, and ahead of Tilly van der Made of the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ecw.htm |title=European Championships (Women) |publisher=Gbrathletics.com |date= |accessdate=15 August 2011}}</ref> She also represented England in the 220 and 880 yards, at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40490 |title=Athletes and results |publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=30 July 2019 |archive-date=24 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124162605/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40490 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/perth-1962/athletes |title=1962 Athletes |publisher=Team England}}</ref>
Grieveson became the national 440 yards champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1963 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19630707/286/0030 |title=Dorothy's Dinner Double |work=Sunday Mirror |date=7 July 1963 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 February 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=22 February 2025}}</ref> and then represented Great Britain in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and was one of the favourites, but a hamstring injury hampered her chances and she only reached the semi-final.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68664 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=22 February 2025}}</ref>
She retired from athletics after her second Commonwealth Games, where she competed for the England team in the 440 yards at the 1966 Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kingston-1966/athletes |title=Kingston 1966 Team |website=Team England |access-date=20 February 2025 }}</ref>
Grieveson married Darlington F.C. footballer Stan Watson in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=237650879:4259&d=bmd_1737698379 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref><ref name=Gap/>
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