Sue Handscomb
{{short description|British rower}}
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| nationality = British
| sport = Rowing
| club = Civil Service Ladies RC
Weybridge Ladies
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|9|21|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Wandsworth, England
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Sue McNuff (née Handscomb; born 21 September 1956) is a retired British rower who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/sue-handscombe-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040730/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/sue-handscombe-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Sue Handscombe Olympic Results |access-date=2 September 2018}}
Rowing career
Handscomb began rowing for Barn Elms while still at school in 1973. She joined the Civil Services Ladies Rowing Club and won the junior coxed fours at the 1974 National Championships. Then she was selected by Great Britain at the 1975 World Rowing Championships.{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/people/sue-mcnuff/|title=Profile|website=Rowing Story|date=30 January 2018 }}
Handscomb won the quadruple sculls event, with Rosie Clugston, Jane Curry, Beverly Jones and E Morris (cox), at the 1977 National Championships.{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS117801202/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=e235369d|title=Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 18 July 1977, p. 7|newspaper=The Times|date=18 July 1977 |page=7 |last1=Railton |first1=Jim }}{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1977-2/|title=NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (15-17 JULY)|website=Rowing Story|date=7 August 2017 }} The same year she went to the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam and then one year later went to the 1978 World Rowing Championships in Bled.
She was selected to represent Great Britain in the women's double sculls event at the 1980 Olympic Games in Montreal. With her rowing partner Astrid Ayling they finished in seventh place.{{cite web|url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/37163|title=Biographical information|website=Olympedia}} She was part of the coxed four, that won the national title at the 1981 National Championships{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1981-world-rowing-championships/|title=NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (17-18 JULY 1981)|website=Rowing Story|date=14 February 2018 }} and a fourth and final World Championship appearance ensued at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich.
Personal life
References
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External links
- {{FISA|4352}}
- {{FISA|36951|Sue McNuff}}
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Category:British female rowers
Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain