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Judy Simpson

1960–

United Kingdom

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Judith Earline Veronica Simpson (née Livermore; born 14 November 1960) is a British former heptathlete who competed at three Olympic Games and one World Athletics Championships, with a highest Olympic finish of fifth in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. She was the 1986 Commonwealth Games champion in heptathlon, and won further medals at two more Commonwealth Games, the European Athletics Championships and the World Student Games, now knows as the Universiade. Following her retirement from athletics, she went on to appear as Nightshade in the TV show Gladiators between 1993 and 1996.

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