{{Short description|British pentathlete}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Susan Longden<br>née Wright | full_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Pentathlon | club = Essex Ladies AC | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|1|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Epping, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = 180 cm | weight = 70 kg }}
'''Susan Jane Longden''' née '''Wright''' (born 22 January 1950) is a retired British athlete who competed at two Olympic Games.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/sue-longden-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190944/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/sue-longden-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Susan Longden Olympic Results |access-date=28 January 2018}}</ref>
== Biography == Wright finished third behind Ann Wilson in the pentathlon event at the 1974 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19740722/291/0012 |title=Midland Girl Shocks Champion |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=22 July 1974 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002454/19740721/217/0019 |title=Hurdler Judy runs into row |work=The People |date=21 July 1974 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref> before becoming the British pentathlon champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1975 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19750720/310/0039 |title=Athletic Results |work=Sunday Mirror |date=20 July 1975 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/9900007/19750724/136/0069 |title=Anti-Climax at Crystal Palace |work=Country Life |date=24 July 1975 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref>
Shortly after her 1975 WAAA title win, Wright married Bruce Longden and competed under her married name thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=255177384:1799&d=bmd_1740370513 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref>
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Longden represented Great Britain in the pentathlon<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68712 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=8 March 2025}}</ref> and then retained her WAAA pentathlon 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>
Londen won her third title with a national record haul of 4152 points 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> and clinched a fourth at the 1980 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref>
At the 1980 Olympics Games in Moscow, Longden represented Great Britain in the women's pentathlon again.<ref name=oly/>
== References == {{Reflist}} {{British Indoor Athletics Championships women's long jump champions}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Longden, Susan}} Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:British pentathletes Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain Category:Sportspeople from Epping Category:English women athletes Category:20th-century English sportswomen