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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 May 1961 Liversedge, West Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | long jump | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Hull Spartan | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Susan Christina Richardson (néeHearnshaw, formerlyTelfer, born 26 May 1961) is a British retired athlete who competed mainly in thelong jump and won a bronze medal at the1984 Summer Olympics.
Hearnshaw, born inLiversedge, West Yorkshire, graduated fromLoughborough University. Her mother,Muriel Pletts, had competed in the first post-warSummer Olympic Games in London in 1948, finishing fourth as part of the British women's 4 x 100 metre relay team.[1]
Hearnshaw representedEngland in the long jump event, at the1978 Commonwealth Games inEdmonton, Canada[2] and the following year became theBritish long jump champion after winning the BritishWAAA Championships title at the1979 WAAA Championships.[3]
Hearnshaw representedEngland again in the long jump event, at the1982 Commonwealth Games inBrisbane, Australia.[4][5]
Hearnshaw achieved her legal best in the long jump with 6.83 metres on 6 May 1984. She also jumped awind-assisted 7.00 metres when winning theUK Championship title on 27 May 1984. Soon afterwards Hearnshaw regained the WAAA title at the1984 WAAA Championships.[6][7]
Additionally in 1984, she won theEuropean Indoor title and competed for Great Britain at the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, in the long jump, where she won a bronze medal. Her long jump best of 6.83 metres in 1984, ranks her eighth on the UK all-time list.
She subsequently qualified as aChartered Accountant.
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Great Britain / England | |||||
| 1977 | European Junior Championships | Donetsk, Soviet Union | 12th | Long jump | 5.54 m |
| 1978 | Commonwealth Games | Edmonton, Canada | 4th | Long jump | 6.40 m |
| European Championships | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 16th (q) | Long jump | 6.25 m | |
| 1979 | European Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 3rd | Long jump | 6.46 m |
| 1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 9th | Long jump | 6.50 m |
| 1981 | Universiade | Bucharest, Romania | 5th | Long jump | 6.53 m |
| 2nd | 4 × 100 m | 43.86 | |||
| 1982 | Commonwealth Games | Brisbane, Australia | 5th | Long jump | 6.50 m |
| 1984 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 1st | Long jump | 6.70 m |
| Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States | 3rd | Long jump | 6.80 m (w) | |
| (q) Indicates overall position in qualifying round | |||||
