Margot Wells

Margot Wells
Born
Margaret Cummings Wilkie

10 October 1952
Dunfermline, Scotland
Occupationrugby coach
Known forfounder of Wellfast – Margot Wells School of Speed

Margot Wells (née Wilkie; born 10 October 1952) is a Scottish sprint and fitness coach based in Guildford, Surrey and a former Scottish champion sprinter.

Early career

Wells started her coaching career by helping her husband Allan Wells win an Olympic Gold and silver medal in the 100m and 200m respectively at the Moscow Olympics 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.[1]

Career

In the early 1990s, she coached rugby players for the club London Scottish.[2] She then took a break from coaching to raise the couple's two children, before returning to coach London Wasps players Danny Cipriani and Thom Evans.[3]

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:

References

  1. ^ "BBC Sport article".
  2. ^ "Margot Wells interview".
  3. ^ "BBC Sportnation profile".
  4. ^ Cleary, Mick (4 July 2008). "Danny Cipriani to come back in better shape – Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London: TMG. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006.
  5. ^ "International Rugby Board – Total Rugby Focus: Paul Sackey". irb.com. 29 April 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2011.


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