Pam Piercy

{{Short description|Former British athlete (born 1937)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Pam Piercy | image = | image_size =  | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = 4 July 1937 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = 400m/440y | height = | weight = | club = Ideal Standard AC Hull<br>Hull Achilles | pb = }}

'''Pamela Joyce Piercy''' (born 4 July 1937), is a female former athlete who competed for England.

== Biography == Piercy finished third behind Shirley Pirie in the 440 yards event at the 1958 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003359/19580608/220/0012 |title=England's Girl Athletes Can Hold Australians |newspaper=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=8 June 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |p=12|access-date=19 February 2025 }}</ref> and then two years later became the national 440 yards champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1960 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19600703/963/0024 |title=Girls shine amid the bungling |newspaper=Sunday Express |date=3 July 1960|p=24 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 February 2025 }}</ref> Piercy would not podium again at the WAAA Championships until winning silver in the 880 yards behind Anne Smith at the 1965 WAAA Championships.<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=19 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=19 February 2025 }}</ref>

Piercy was selected by England to represent her country at the 1966 European Championships. She finished just outside of the medals in fourth place, in the 1966 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres in Budapest, Hungary.

She represented the England team<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003126/19660705/529/0037 |title=Muareen Tranter chosen for Empire Games |work=Wolverhampton Express and Star |date=5 July 1966 |p=37 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=10 December 2025}}</ref> in the 440 and 880 yards, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kingston-1966/athletes|title=1966 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kingston-1966|title=Kingston, Jamaica, 1966 Team|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40733|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>

She was a coach for Hull Achilles Athletics Club.

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