Kathy Smallwood-Cook is one of the most successful female sprinters in British athletics history.
16 Facts About Kathy Smallwood-Cook
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook is three-times an Olympic bronze medallist, including at 400 metres in Los Angeles 1984.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook is three-times a winner of the British Athletics Writers' Association Female Athlete of the Year Award.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook was coached throughout her career by Jim Spooner.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook spent time working at the Tadley branch of Lloyds Bank.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 relay.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook finished second to Evelyn Ashford in a UK record time of 11.10, defeating Marlies Gohr, who was third.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook won another silver in the sprint relay, along with Wendy Hoyte, Bev Callender and Shirley Thomas.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook did win a gold medal in the sprint relay with Hoyte, Callender and Sonia Lannamann.
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In 1983, now competing as Kathy Cook, following her marriage to fellow athlete Garry Cook, she won two medals at the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook then won the bronze medal in the 200 metres in 22.37, behind Marita Koch and Merlene Ottey and ahead of Florence Griffith.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook did still manage to win four medals at that years Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook won a total of sixteen senior national titles during her career.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook's accomplishments are all the more significant because many of her rivals after the fall of the "Iron Curtain" were found to have been performing illegally.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook retired in 1987, after competing at the UK Championships.
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Kathy Smallwood-Cook received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton in 2013.