so what did she win, when?
I know that she won a bronze in the competition currently known as JWOC, sometime in the 90s. I think there was also a relay bronze around that time as well.
And I know JWOC was in the lakes in the 80s.
Can anyone fill in the blanks? I know i've got the answer at home....at least i once had....
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sorry - a bit off thread -she's just had a baby
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Yvette Baker Becomes a Mum
Britain's first world champion Yvette Baker has just become a mum. Yvette
and Joel announced that baby Olaf (Oli) Ian Baker was born on Wed 23rd June
at 8.30 pm. Weight 3.87kg / 8lb 04 oz, length 54 cm. All are well.
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Thanks to Google, there's a little archive at http://lazarus.elte.hu/tajfutas/history/jwoc/jwoc-0.htm which shows that Yvette won Bronze in the classic in Hungary in 1986, and the Lakes held it in 1987, both in the then unofficial European championships.
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Rocky wrote:I know that she won a bronze in the competition currently known as JWOC, sometime in the 90s.
Yvette's last JWOC was definitely the Lakes in 87. She was a senior after that, a year older than me. I was in the team in 87 and I don't remember her getting a medal, but I could be wrong. I don't remember me getting a medal either.
I think the only relay medal was Yvette/Sarah Hague/Gilly Hale in 84, 85 or 86, maybe.
Before 86 it was really really unofficial and called the 'International Junior Match' and after that it was semi official and called the European Junior Champs.
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Yvette was third and the women were second in the International Junior Match in 1984 in Austria. Nothing much in France in 1985. In 1986 in Hungary, the competition became the European Juniors, and Yvette won a bronze (this was the same year she won her first World Cup race in France). In the Lakes in 1987, Yvette was sixth, and the women's relay 4th. The only other medal winners that I can recall was in Belgium in 1988, the year before it became the Junior Worlds, when the men got the bronze in the relays.
I'm fairly certain that Yvette was the last top 10 result that we had in the women's races, which all goes to underline what a fabulous set of performances this is from Alison.
I'm fairly certain that Yvette was the last top 10 result that we had in the women's races, which all goes to underline what a fabulous set of performances this is from Alison.
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fabulous set of performances this is from Alison and mhairi!
Hey don't forget our Welsh representative, i reckon Cerys kicked some serious ass for her first JWOC coming 20th in the Classic!! Woo!!!
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and mhairi!
Hey don't forget our Welsh representative, i reckon Cerys kicked some serious ass for her first JWOC coming 20th in the Classic!!
Along with Graham's performance too, one of the best set of individual results ever. Hadn't realised quite how good and sorry not to have mentioned them - only just emerging from the final teaching practice and an induction week in my new school for September. A life outside planning, reviews and observations takes a bit of getting used to!
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