Beverley Goddard

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Medal record
Women’s Athletics
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Olympic Games
Bronze	1980 Moscow	4 x 100 metres
Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	4 x 100 metres
World Championships
Silver	1983 Helsinki	4 x 100 metres
European Championships
Silver	1978 Prague	4 x 100 metres
Silver	1982 Athens	4 x 100 metres
Commonwealth Games
Gold	1978 Edmonton	4 x 100 metres
Gold	1982 Brisbane	4 x 100 metres
Gold	1982 Edinburgh	4 x 100 metres

Beverley Lanita Callender (nee Goddard) (born 28 August 1956) is a British athlete who competed for Great Britain and Reading Athletic Club mainly in the 100 metres 200 metres and 4x100m Relay.

She represented Great Britain in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Heather Hunte, Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Sonia Lannaman there they set a British Record which still stands to this day.

She also competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Simone Jacobs, Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Heather Oakes.

The 1983 relay team of Joan Baptiste, Kathy Cook, Beverley and Shirley Thomas won a silver in the first ever World Athletics Championship sprint relay final. Beverley ran a superb third leg, bringing the team clearly into the lead over the eventual winners and red hot favourites the GDR.

In fact the Great Britain women's 4x100 m relay team never lost out on a major championship medal from 1978- 1984 including European and Commonwealth honours.

Beverley usually ran the third leg and became a specialist in this position, as is evident all her major medals came as a member of the sprint relay team.

Beverley is still active at Reading Athletic Club and is found each week coaching athletes there.

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Personal Bests

100 m 11.48 -0.60 Helsinki, FIN 07/08/1983

4x 100 Relay 42.43 Moscow, RUS 1/08/1980