Joan Baptiste
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Great Britain
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World Championships
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1983 Helsinki | 4x100 m relay |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
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1983 Budapest |
200 metres |
Representing  England
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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1986 Edinburgh | 4x100 m relay |
Joan Jeanetta Baptiste (born 12 October 1959) is a former British sprinter who competed mainly in the
4 x 100 metres relay. She won a silver medal at the inaugural World Championships in 1983 in the 4 × 100 m relay and competed in the 200 metres at the 1984 Olympic Games
in Los Angeles.
Career
Baptiste was born in
Kathy Cook, Bev Callender and Shirley Thomas
. They ran 42.71 secs, finishing behind the East Germans and just ahead of the fast finishing Jamaicans. She also reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres.
Baptiste reached the 200 metres semi-finals at the
1985 European Indoor Championships. Her 23.33 would remain the national indoor record for nine years, until Katharine Merry
ran 23.00 in 1994, in Glasgow.
In 1986, Baptiste won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in Edinburgh in the 4 × 100 m relay, along with Paula Dunn, Kathy Cook and Heather Oakes. She won the AAAs National title at 200 metres in 1987 and competed that year at the World Championships in Rome as a member of the sprint relay squad.
Personal bests
- 100 metres – 11.32 Zurich SWI 24 August 1983
- 200 metres – 22.86 Los Angeles USA 9 August 1984
- 200 metres (indoors) 23.33 23 February 1985 (former UK indoor record)
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Joan Baptiste". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010.
- European Indoor Championships
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