Helen Good, a former member of Britain’s Olympic swim workforce who additionally gained silver medals on the World Championships and European Championships, has died. She was 42.
Good was referred to as Helen Don-Duncan earlier than she married. Good’s household and British Swimming each introduced the swimmer’s demise Monday. After her swim profession was over, she turned a trainer at Worsley Mesnes Group Main Faculty in Wigan.
The trigger was not instantly recognized.
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Helen Don-Duncan smiles. (Mike Egerton/EMPICS by way of Getty Photographs)
“She cherished the college, employees, youngsters and fogeys a lot,” Good’s husband, Craig, mentioned, by way of the Night Customary. “She was so proud to achieve her objective of being headteacher. She used to say to me on a regular basis she might by no means see herself at one other college. She was Worsley Mesnes via and thru!
“I keep in mind solely final week she mentioned her objective was to get the college to excellent and that she had the correct employees to realize this. I hope you all continue learning like champions. Please be taught from this and dwell your finest life, no regrets.”
Alison Halliwell, the chair of governors on the college, described Good’s demise as “sudden.”
“It’s with nice unhappiness and remorse that I’ve to announce the sudden demise of our beloved headteacher, Mrs. Helen Good,” she mentioned. “Our heartfelt condolences are despatched to Helen’s household at this very troublesome time. I do know this information can be a shock and trigger nice unhappiness to our neighborhood.
“I need to reassure you that the governors of Worsley Mesnes Faculty are working with the native authority and college to make sure that our youngsters, employees and fogeys will obtain the required help within the coming weeks.”
Katy Sexton and Sarah Ruckwood had been amongst those that paid tribute to Good.
Helen Don-Duncan celebrates her win within the Ladies’s 200 Meters Backstroke, when she broke the British file. (Steve Mitchell/EMPICS by way of Getty Photographs)
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“I’ve been looking for the phrases to say about this however am so shocked by the information, I don’t know what to say,” Sexton mentioned via British Swimming. “Helen was such a vibrant character, at all times comfortable and a terrific buddy and roommate. She was such a devoted athlete and had a tremendous work ethic which she carried into her life exterior of sport. She can be drastically missed and my greatest sympathies go to her household.”
Ruckwood added that she was “grateful” for the reminiscences she had of Good.
“I keep in mind Helen most although as somebody who would at all times brighten a room when she walked in it and her infectious snicker would deliver a smile to everybody,” Ruckwood added. “It’s no shock that she went on from swimming to change into a main college headteacher working with and provoking throughout her. I’m so sorry that life after swimming meant we didn’t handle to see one another over time because of distance and different life pressures. DD did at all times and can at all times have a really particular place in my coronary heart, as probably the most superb particular person.”
Good competed within the backstroke for Britain. She gained a silver within the 1998 European Championships within the 200-meter backstroke in Sheffield and within the 1999 World Championships in Hong Kong in the identical occasion. She additionally had a bronze within the 1998 Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur.
Australia’s Giaan Rooney, left, holds her hand over her face in disbelief after setting a brand new Commonwealth file for the ladies’s 100m backstroke occasion on the sixteenth Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur September 14. Eighth-placed Helen Don Duncan, proper, smiles alongside after Rooney set a brand new file time of 1:02.43 minutes. (Reuters)
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She participated within the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and completed fifteenth within the backstroke.
