{{Short description|British athlete (born 1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Penny Forse<br>née Yule | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Middle-distance running | club = Portsmouth Atalanta AC | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|6|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Chichester, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =169 cm | weight =54 kg }}
'''Penelope Ann Forse''', née '''Yule''' (born 7 June 1949) is a female retired British middle-distance runner who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/penny-yule-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417191000/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/penny-yule-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Penny Yule Olympic Results |access-date=1 November 2017}}</ref>
== Biography == At the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, Yule represented Great Britain in the women's 1500 metres.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68823 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=8 March 2025}}</ref> The following month Yule became the British 1500 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1976 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19760822/558/0027 |title=Super Andrea Powers Home |work=Sunday Express |date=22 August 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19760823/333/0011 |title=Athletics |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=23 August 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref> and successfully retained the title at the title at the 1977 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=8 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref>
She finished seventh at the 1980 World Cross Country Championships, also winning a silver medal in the team competition.<ref name=archive_03> {{ Citation |last=Magnusson |first=Tomas |date=8 February 2007 |title=IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.5km CC Women - Paris Lonchamp Date: Sunday, March 9, 1980 |url=http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW1980S.html |publisher=Athchamps (archived) |accessdate=18 October 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110825/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW1980S.html |archivedate=16 October 2007 }} </ref>
She represented England in the 3,000 metres event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edmonton-1978/athletes|title=1978 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40510|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=28 September 2019|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928105734/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40510|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Yule married Alan Forse in late 1979 and competed under her married name thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=264021394:2135&d=bmd_1740370513 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Forse, Penny}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Category:English women middle-distance runners Category:British women middle-distance runners Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain Category:Sportspeople from Chichester Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for England Category:20th-century English sportswomen