Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Birth name | Janet Park Shackleton | |||||||||||
Born | 10 July 1928 | |||||||||||
Died | 17 May 2021 Wellington, New Zealand | (aged 92)|||||||||||
Spouse |
John Humphrey Cooke
(
m. 1953; died 2013) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | 80 m hurdles | |||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
Personal best | 11.4 (1950) [1] | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Janet Park Cooke (née Shackleton; 10 July 1928 – 17 May 2021) was a New Zealand hurdler. At the 1950 British Empire Games, as Janet Shackleton, she won the bronze medal in the 80 metres hurdles. [1]
In 1953, she married John Humphrey Cooke at Waimate, and the couple went on to have four children. [2] In the late 1950s, they purchased the 8,000-acre (3,200 ha) Big Ben Station near the Rakaia Gorge, where they farmed sheep and cattle. [2] In 1991, Janet and John Cooke retired to Akaroa, before moving to Greenpark near Lincoln, and then Wellington, where John Cooke died in 2013. [2] Janet Cooke died in Wellington on 17 May 2021. [3]
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Birth name | Janet Park Shackleton | |||||||||||
Born | 10 July 1928 | |||||||||||
Died | 17 May 2021 Wellington, New Zealand | (aged 92)|||||||||||
Spouse |
John Humphrey Cooke
(
m. 1953; died 2013) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | 80 m hurdles | |||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
Personal best | 11.4 (1950) [1] | |||||||||||
Medal record
|
Janet Park Cooke (née Shackleton; 10 July 1928 – 17 May 2021) was a New Zealand hurdler. At the 1950 British Empire Games, as Janet Shackleton, she won the bronze medal in the 80 metres hurdles. [1]
In 1953, she married John Humphrey Cooke at Waimate, and the couple went on to have four children. [2] In the late 1950s, they purchased the 8,000-acre (3,200 ha) Big Ben Station near the Rakaia Gorge, where they farmed sheep and cattle. [2] In 1991, Janet and John Cooke retired to Akaroa, before moving to Greenpark near Lincoln, and then Wellington, where John Cooke died in 2013. [2] Janet Cooke died in Wellington on 17 May 2021. [3]