Donna Hartley - Telegraph The following year she represented Great Britain in the 1972 Munich Olympics, where she was the youngest member in the British team, and won the Amateur Athletics Association 200m and the 400m in 1975. She also broke the British record for the now obsolete 440 yards in 1976. Although as a young individual athlete she seldom reached the finals at major international championships, she fared much better as relay runner. She ran the anchor leg in the British 4 x 400 metres relay team which finished seventh at the 1976 Montreal Olympics . Having adopted the 400 metres as her event, she became British champion in 1977, and married a fellow athlete, Bill Hartley, the same year. As Donna Hartley, she finally achieved international success by winning the 400 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, also anchoring the English 4 x 400m relay team to the gold medal in a Games record time. Given six months" leave by her employers at Midland Bank ahead of the Moscow Olympics in 1980, her final year of serious competition, she suffered from injuries and loss of form, and was shocked to be dropped from the individual 400 metres event that she had come to dominate. But then came her greatest triumph, as she anchored Great Britain to a bronze medal in the 4 x 400m relay. After retiring from athletics, Donna Hartley divorced, married the comedian and Coronation Street actor Bobby Knutt (real name Bobby Wass) and, as Donna Hartley-Wass, achieved success on the British women's body building circuit. In 1988 she won the National Amateur Body Building Association's Miss Britain Physique trophy, and was featured on the front cover of Health & Strength Magazine. Her body building career was short-lived, however, and for several years she ran a line dancing school near her home in Sheffield. Latterly she was appointed spa and leisure manager at a hotel and country club near Macclesfield. Donna Hartley was appointed MBE in 1979. Her marriage to Bill Hartley was dissolved, and she married her second husband, Bobby Knutt, in 1986. She was found dead in her garden, where she had been sunbathing. Donna Hartley, born May 1 1955, died June 7 2013