Myrtle Augee
Myrtle Sharon Mary Augee is a female retired English shot putter.Athletics career
Augee represented Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics.
She competed at four Commonwealth Games and won a medal on all four occasions. Representing England in 1986 she won a bronze medal, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later she represented England and won a gold medal, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. This was followed by a silver medal, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The final appearance was when she represented England and won another silver, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Her personal best put was 19.03 metres, achieved in June 1990 in Cardiff placing her second on the British outdoor list, behind Judy Oakes. She was also a World Champion in powerlifting, and a World Championship medalist in weightlifting. As of 2019, she remains the last British weightlifter to win a World Championships overall medal, a bronze in 1994 World Weightlifting Championships. She was the last British lifter to win a medal of any type until Emily Godley's clean and jerk bronze medal in 2019.
