{{short description|Scottish racewalker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Verity Snook<br>née Larby | image = | caption = | nationality = British (Scottish) | sport = Athletics | event = race walking | club = AFD | birth_date = 13 November 1970 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb = | medaltemplates= }}

'''Verity Beatrice Snook''', née '''Larby''' (born 13 November 1970) is a retired female race walker from Scotland, who also represented Great Britain during her career.

== Biography == Larby who trained at Aldershot, Farnham & District AC, became the British 10,000 metres walk champion, after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1993 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002192/19930717/026/0026 |title=Panasonic AAA Championships |work=Sports Argus |date=17 July 1993 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=31 March 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=29 March 2025}}</ref> The following year she retained her 10,000 metres title and also became the British 5000 metres walk champion at the 1994 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=29 March 2025 }}</ref>

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada she represented Scotland in the women's 10 kilometres walk event.

==Achievements== {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing the {{GBR}} and {{SCO}} |- |1993 |World Championships |Stuttgart, Germany |29th |10 km |47:54 |- |rowspan=2|1994 |Commonwealth Games |Victoria, Canada |7th |10 km |46:06 |- |European Championships |Helsinki, Finland |23rd |10&nbsp;km |47:23 |- |1997 |World Race Walking Cup |Poděbrady, Czech Republic |94th |10 km |50:14 |}

== Personal life == Her son Chris Snook won the UK Athletics Championships men's 5000m race walking title, in Manchester, in July 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/event-reports/rowden-strikes-as-bold-burgin-falters-1039969371/|website=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=July 10, 2023|title= Rowden strikes as bold Burgin falters|first=Jason|last=Henderson |date=July 9, 2023}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}} *{{World Athletics}}

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