Jane Colebrook
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| Women's athletics | |||
Representing  Great Britain
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| World Indoor Games | |||
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1985 Paris | 800 m | |
| European Indoor Championships | |||
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1977 San Sebastián | 800 m | |
Representing  England
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| Commonwealth Games | |||
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1978 Edmonton | 800 m | |
Katrina Jane Weston (née Colebrook, formerly Finch; born 8 November 1957) is a former British middle distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. Competing as Jane Colebrook, she equalled the world indoor best to win at the 1977 European Indoor Championships and won a bronze medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. Competing as Jane Finch, she won a silver medal at the 1985 World Indoor Games.
Born Jane Colebrook in Lincolnshire, she started out as a sprinter and won the under-15s 200 metres race at the 1972 AAAs Junior Championships. She stepped up to longer distances over the next two years, winning both indoor and outdoor under-17s title in the 400 metres and 800 metres. She was the winner of the intermediate 800 m race at the 1974 English Schools Championships. In December 1976 she ran a British indoor junior record of 2:05.0 minutes for the 800 m (later bettered by Kirsty Wade in 1981).
She had her greatest achievement at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships at the age of nineteen, where after qualifying for the final as one of the fastest losers she went on to beat Totka Petrova to win the 800 m gold medal with a world indoor record-equalling time of 2:01.1 minutes. This time was a British indoor record for 26 years, becoming the longest-standing British record at one point, and was improved upon by Kelly Holmes in 2003. It remains the fastest ever time by a female British under-23 runner. That July, she ran her lifetime best for the 800 m outdoors in Oulu, Finland, clocking a time of 2:00.6 minutes, which made her the second best British performer in the event at that point, behind Rosemary Stirling. Colebrook also won the women's title at the North of England Cross Country Championships that year.
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