Janet Shackleton

{{Short description|New Zealand hurdler (1928–2021)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2015}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Janet Cooke

| image = Janet Shackleton 1950.jpg

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| caption = Shackleton at the 1950 British Empire Games

| birth_name = Janet Park Shackleton

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|07|10|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|05|17|1928|07|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| spouse = {{marriage|John Humphrey Cooke|1953|2013|end=d.}}

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| country = New Zealand

| sport = Athletics

| event = 80 m hurdles

| pb =11.4 (1950)

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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 1950 Auckland|80 m hurdles}}

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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.[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=2460&Gender=W Janet Shackleton]. trackfield.brinkster.net

In 1953, she married John Humphrey Cooke at Waimate, and the couple went on to have four children.{{cite news | url=https://christscollege.com/assets/Uploads/In-Memoriam-2013-For-Web.pdf | title=John Humphrey Cooke | work=In Memoriam 2013 | publisher=Christ's College Old Boys' Association | access-date=9 July 2018 | pages=11–12}} In the late 1950s, they purchased the {{convert|8000|acre|ha|sigfig=2|adj=on}} Big Ben Station near the Rakaia Gorge, where they farmed sheep and cattle. In 1991, Janet and John Cooke retired to Akaroa, before moving to Greenpark near Lincoln, and then Wellington, where John Cooke died in 2013. Janet Cooke died in Wellington on 17 May 2021.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/the-press-nz/obituary.aspx?n=janet-cooke&pid=198700388 |title=Janet Cooke death notice |date=19 May 2021 |work=The Press |access-date=18 July 2021}}