{{Short description|Welsh athlete}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Thelwyn Appleby<br>Married name Bateman | image = | caption = | nationality = British (Welsh) | sport = Athletics | event = Sprints, 400m, middle-distance, Cross Country | club = Coventry Godiva Harriers | birth_date = 18 December 1944<ref name=CS>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000683/19660616/293/0027 |title=Welsh pick Godiva girl for Games |work=Coventry Standard |date=16 June 1966 |p=42 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 November 2025}}</ref> | birth_place = Rugby, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb = }}
'''Thelwyn S. Appleby''' married name '''Bateman''' (born 18 December 1944) is a former track and field athlete from Wales, who competed at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the 1970 British Commonwealth Games (now Commonwealth Games).
== Biography == Appleby was a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers and was eligible for Wales through her Welsh parentage.<ref name=CS/> After winning the Midland Championships in May 1966, Appleby was short listed for the Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000769/19660507/332/0042 |title=Godiva girls excel in Midland championships |work=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=7 May 1966 |p=42 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 November 2025}}</ref>
She subsequently represented the 1966 Welsh team<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3036/71/all |title=Wales Kingston 1966 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=26 November 2025 |archive-date=21 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021054620/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3036/71/all |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, participating in four events;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19660615/487/0022 |title=Ron Jones to lead strong Welsh team |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=15 June 1966 |p=22 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 November 2025}}</ref> the 100 yards, the 220 yards, the 440 yards and the 4 × 110 yards relay, with Gloria Dourass, Liz Gill and Liz Parsons.
Shortly after the Games, Appleby married her coach Roy Bateman and participated under her married name thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=235307086:0351&d=bmd_1763869701 |title=Appleby Thelwyn S.Bateman Rugby |website=Free BMD |access-date=26 November 2025}}</ref>
As Thelwyn Bateman she competed for Wales at multiple major cross county championships won the 3000 metres title on two occasions at the AAA Indoor Championships and became the British 3,000 metres champion at the 1976 WAAA Championships by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=27 December 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=27 December 2024 }}</ref>
She went to a second Commonwealth Games, representing the 1970 Welsh team<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004986/19700522/014/0014 |title=The Welsh Team |work=Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) |date=22 May 1970 |p=14 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 November 2025}}</ref> at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3037/71/all |title=Wales Edinburgh 1970 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=26 November 2025 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018081950/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3037/71/all |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
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