Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh


Janet Bewley Wardell-Yerburgh is a British retired international fencer.

Fencing career

She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.
She represented England and won double gold in the foil events, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.
Four years later she repeated the success by winning another double gold at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Personal life

In 1966, she married the Olympic oarsman Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh, and they had one daughter, Atlanta Jane. Her husband was killed in a road accident in January 1970.