| Janet Cooke | |
| Birth Name: | Janet Park Shackleton |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1928 |
| Death Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | 80 m hurdles |
| Pb: | 11.4 (1950) |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
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 8000sigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 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]