June Foulds

June Florence Paul (née Foulds; 13 June 1934 – 6 November 2020) was a British track and field sprint runner.

Early life
Born June Florence Foulds in Shepherd's Bush in 1934, she was brought up by her grandparents.

She originated from East Acton. She lived at 80 Fitzneal Street. She attended Burlington Grammar School on Wood Lane. She left school in 1951 aged 17.

Personal life
She married British Olympic fencer Raymond Paul. Their son Steven Paul also became an Olympic fencer and their nephew Barry Paul won a Commonwealth Games gold medal. She was the second wife of singer Ronnie Carroll, with whom she co-owned a successful club in Grenada in the 1970s, until political unrest halted tourism. They were to later divorce. Her third husband was Eric Reynolds, divorcing after two years. She ran a food stall and became a key figure in the development of the Camden Lock Markets, she ran several restaurants in London, including those trading as "Huffs". In 1993 she started running the "Hampstead Everyman Cinema", in Hampstead, London, turning the basement into a popular bar and restaurant, later selling the entire site to the Everyman Group.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 November 1958.

Foulds died at the age of 86.

Athletics career
Foulds competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a bronze and a silver medal in the relay. Her best individual result was fifth place in the 200 m in 1956. At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal in the 4×110 yd relay in a world-record time alongside Dorothy Hyman, Madeleine Weston, and Heather Armitage and placed fourth in the 220 yards and fifth in the 100 yards.