Ann Elizabeth Brightwell, MBE

Ann Elizabeth Packer MBE (born 8 March 1942) PE Teacher
English former sprinter, hurdler and long jumper. She won a gold medal in the 800 metres (in a world record time of 2:01.1), and a silver in the 400 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics, having never previously run an international 800m race, and with the final itself only her eighth ever two-lap run. Her real focus was the 400m, with Packer arriving in Japan as the favourite to win the event having run the fastest time in the world that year. As it was, she took silver, finishing behind Australia’s Betty Cuthbert in a European record time of 52.20sec.

Anne Packer retired immediately after winning the 1964 Olympic 800 metres gold medal.

She was the second British female athlete to win gold in an Olympic track and field event following Mary Rand’s success in the 1964 long-jump final.

Ian and David played football for Manchester United.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Packer
https://web.archive.org/web/20040831160320/http://www.sportinglife....

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/may/04/ann-packer-tokyo...

Births Mar 1942

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