June Foulds


June Florence Foulds is a retired British track and field sprint runner.

Personal life

Born June Florence Foulds in Shepherd's Bush in 1934 she was brought up by her grandparents. She became June Paul upon marrying British Olympic fencer Raymond Paul. Their son Steven Paul also became an Olympic fencer and another son Barry Paul won a Commonwealth Games gold medal. She was the second wife of singer Ronnie Carroll, with whom she owned an unsuccessful club in Grenada in the 1970s. They later divorced. Her third husband was Eric Reynolds. She ran a food stall in Camden Locks and ran several restaurants in London. In 1993 she bought the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, London.
She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 November 1958.

Athletics career

Foulds competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a silver medal in the relay. Her best individual result was fifth place in the 200 m in 1956. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal in the 4×110 yd relay in a world-record time alongside Dorothy Hyman, Madeleine Weston, and Heather Armitage and placed fourth in the 220 yards and fifth in the 100 yards.