Margot Wells
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Margot Wells (née Wilkie; born 10 October 1952) is a Scottish sprint and fitness coach based in Guildford, Surrey and a former Scottish champion sprinter.
Early career
Wells started her coaching career by helping her husband Allan Wells win an Olympic Gold and silver medal in the 100m and 200m respectively at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. In the run-up to the Games, she protected him from hate mail generated by the then Soviet Union's involvement in Afghanistan.[1]
Career
In the early 1990s, she coached rugby players for the club London Scottish.[2] She then took a break from coaching to raise the couple's two children, before returning to coach London Wasps players Danny Cipriani and Thom Evans.[3]
Her stable of sportsmen and women includes:
- Danny Cipriani – England and Wasps Fly Half[4]
- Andy Gomarsall – England and Harlequins Scrum Half
- James Haskell – England and Wasps Back Row
- Paul Sackey – England and Wasps Winger[5]
- Tom Voyce – England and Wasps Winger
- Dom Waldouck – England Saxons and Wasps Centre
- Mike Brown – England and Harlequins Full Back
References
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External links
- Wellfast website
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- British athletics coaches
- Scottish sports coaches
- Female sports coaches
- Scottish female hurdlers
- Scottish female sprinters
- British female sprinters
- British female hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Scotland
- Sportspeople from Dunfermline
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen