Ann Wilson (athlete)


Ann Shirley Wilson, also known as Ann Simmonds is a retired English pentathlete.

Athletics career

She competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in the pentathlon, hurdles and long jump events with the best result of 13th place in the long jump in 1968 and in the pentathlon in 1972.
Wilson collected three silver and one bronze medals at the British Commonwealth Games in 1970–74. She represented England in the 80 metres hurdles, long jump and high jump, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.
Four years later at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, she won three silver medals in the long jump, high jump and pentathlon and a further four years later she won a bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand.