June Foulds

June Florence Foulds (born 13 June 1934) is a retired British track and field sprint runner.

June Foulds
Foulds and Paul in 1952
Personal information
Birth nameJune Florence Foulds
Born13 June 1934 (1934-06-13) (age 86)
Shepherd's Bush, England[1]
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)100 m, 200 m
ClubSpartan Ladies
L.A.C., London
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m – 11.6 (1956)
200 m – 23.7 (1956)[1][2]
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne4×100 m
1952 Helsinki4×100 m
European Championships
1950 Brussels4×100 m
1950 Brussels100 m
Representing  England
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
1958 Cardiff4×110 yd

Personal life

Born June Florence Foulds in Shepherd's Bush in 1934 she was brought up by her grandparents.[3] She became June Paul upon marrying British Olympic fencer Raymond Paul.[4] Their son Steven Paul also became an Olympic fencer[1] and another son Barry Paul won a Commonwealth Games gold medal. She was the second wife of singer Ronnie Carroll, with whom she owned an unsuccessful club in Grenada in the 1970s. They later divorced.[5] Her third husband was Eric Reynolds. She ran a food stall in Camden Locks and ran several restaurants in London. In 1993 she bought the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, London.


She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 November 1958.[6]

Athletics career

Foulds competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a silver medal in the relay. Her best individual result was fifth place in the 200 m in 1956. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal in the 4×110 yd relay in a world-record time alongside Dorothy Hyman, Madeleine Weston, and Heather Armitage and placed fourth in the 220 yards and fifth in the 100 yards.[1]

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References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "June Foulds-Paul". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  2. June Paul (née Foulds). trackfield.brinkster.net
  3. "Interview: Still doing her personal best at 60: In the Fifties June". The Independent. 7 December 1993. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  4. "June Paul". British Athletics. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  5. "Ronnie Carroll, singer and 'Eurovisionary' - obituary". The Telegraph. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  6. "Desert Island Discs – Castaway : June Paul". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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