Margot Wells (née Wilkie, born 10 October 1952) is a Scottish elite sprint and fitness coach based in

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and a former Scottish champion sprinter.

Early career

Wells started her coaching career by helping her husband

Allan Wells Allan Wipper Wells (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Within a fortnight of that, he also took on and beat America's best sprinters ...

win an Olympic Gold and silver medal in the 100m and 200m respectively at the

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in 1980. In the run-up to the Games, she protected him from hate mail generated by the then Soviet Union's involvement in Afghanistan.

Career

In the early 1990s, she coached rugby players for the club London Scottish. She then took a break from coaching to raise the couple's two children, before returning to coach London Wasps players

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and Thom Evans. She currently coaches a crop of England's top rugby and hockey players as well as up and coming athletes. Recently she has launched a new company, Wellfast – Margot Wells School of Speed, designed to teach aspiring coaches of all levels the intricacies of making a student faster. Her stable of sportsmen and women includes: *

– England and Wasps Fly Half *

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– England and Harlequins Scrum Half * James Haskell – England and Wasps Back Row *

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– England and Wasps Winger * Tom Voyce – England and Wasps Winger *

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– England Saxons and Wasps Centre * Mike Brown – England and Harlequins Full Back

References

External links

Wellfast
website 1952 births Living people British athletics coaches Scottish sports coaches Female sports coaches Scottish female hurdlers Scottish female sprinters British female hurdlers British female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland Sportspeople from Dunfermline {{Scotland-athletics-bio-stub