17 May 2021(2021-05-17) (aged 92) Wellington, New Zealand
Spouse
John Humphrey Cooke
(m. 1953; died 2013)
Sport
Country
New Zealand
Sport
Athletics
Event
80 m hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best
11.4 (1950)[1]
Medal record
Representing New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
1950 Auckland
80 m hurdles
Janet Park Cooke (née Shackleton; 10 July 1928 – 17 May 2021) was a New Zealand hurdler. At the 1950 British Empire Games, as Janet Shackleton, she won the bronze medal in the 80 metres hurdles.[1]
In 1953, she married John Humphrey Cooke at Waimate, and the couple went on to have four children.[2] In the late 1950s, they purchased the 8,000-acre (3,200 ha) Big Ben Station near the Rakaia Gorge, where they farmed sheep and cattle.[2] In 1991, Janet and John Cooke retired to Akaroa, before moving to Greenpark near Lincoln, and then Wellington, where John Cooke died in 2013.[2] Janet Cooke died in Wellington on 17 May 2021.[3]
^ abJanet Shackleton. trackfield.brinkster.net
^ abc"John Humphrey Cooke" (PDF). In Memoriam 2013. Christ's College Old Boys' Association. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
^"Janet Cooke death notice". The Press. 19 May 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
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