Ruth Kennedy
English athletics competitor
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Born | (1957-01-13) 13 January 1957 (age 67) | |||||||||||||||||
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Ruth Kennedy (married name Ruth Patten; born 1957), is a female former athlete who competed for England.
Athletics career
She represented England and won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with Jannette Roscoe, Sue Pettett and Verona Bernard, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[1][2] Four years later she represented England and won a gold medal again in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[3] The other team members were Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Verona Elder and Donna Hartley.[4]
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Commonwealth Games champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay
- 1974:
Roscoe, Kennedy, Pettett, Elder (ENG)
- 1978:
Hartley, Hoyte-Smith, Kennedy, Elder (ENG)
- 1982:
Crooks, Richardson, Killingbeck, Taylor (CAN)
- 1986:
Crooks, Payne, Killingbeck, Richardson (CAN)
- 1990:
Piggford, Stoute, Gunnell, Keough (ENG)
- 1994:
Smith, Goddard, Keough, Gunnell (ENG)
- 1998:
Andrews, Lewis, Naylor, Van Heer (AUS)
- 2002:
Hewitt, Freeman, Lewis, Pittman (AUS)
- 2006:
Pittman, Willis, Lewis, Hayward (AUS)
- 2010:
Mj. Kaur, Jose, Akkunji, Md. Kaur (IND)
- 2014:
Day, Williams-Mills, Le-Roy, McPherson (JAM)
- 2018:
Day, Le-Roy, Russell, McPherson (JAM)
- 2022:
Constantine, McDonald, Powell, Stiverne (CAN)