| Birth Date: | 17 September 1951 |
Susan Diane Reeve (née Scott; born 17 September 1951 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is a former female track and field athlete from England.[1]
She took part in the 1968 Olympics as 16 year old school girl atHodge Hill Girls' Grammar School.[2] [3] [4]
She took Religious Knowledge and Geography A-level, and wanted to be a primary school teacher.[5]
She competed in the women's long jump, pentathlon and heptathlon during her career. She represented Great Britain at three Summer Olympics: 1968, 1976 and 1980.
As Sue Scott she competed in the 1968 Olympics and in 1969 competed in the pentathlon at the 1969 European Athletics Championships in Athens. One year later she represented England in 100 metres hurdles and pentathlon events, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[6] [7] But at this event, she competed with a recent injury to her left ankle.[8]
By the end of 1970 she had damaged tendons in her left foot, severing two tendons to the ankle, needing an operation, not competing for two years.
She married Kevin Reeve in May 1971, aged 19.[9]
In 1978 she won a gold medal in the long jump, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada,[10] . She returned to work on Monday 14 August 1978, as a Liable Relatives Officer, at the DHSS office in Washwood Heath, suffering from jetlag.[11]
Either side of this success she appeared in two more Olympic Games, competing in the long jump.
She had been hoping to go to the 1982 Commonwealth Games, then retire, but a weight training injury to her back, in 1978, caused her to retire early in April 1981, aged 28, after medical X-ray examinations.[12]
In 1976 she lived in Coton Green in Tamworth.[13]