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| Full name | Suzanne Allday-Goodison | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 November 1934 Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 July 2017 (aged 82) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Suzanne Allday-Goodison (26 November 1934 – 26 July 2017) was an English discus thrower and shot putter. She was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.[1]
Allday-Goodison represented Great Britain at three Summer Olympics: 1952, 1956 and 1960. She married hammer thrower Peter Allday, and was affiliated with the Brighton Ladies Athletic Club and the Spartan Ladies Athletic Club during her career.
In 1954 she won the first of four medals for England at the Commonwealth Games. The first was a silver medal in the discus at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Allday-Goodison represented England at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff winning a gold medal in the discus and a silver medal in the shot put.[2][3]
Four years later she won a bronze medal in the shot put at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.[4]
