Jane Tomlinson
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1964 – 2007
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Who was Jane Tomlinson?
Jane Emily Tomlinson, CBE was an amateur English athlete who raised £1.85 million for charity by completing a series of athletic challenges, despite suffering from terminal cancer.
Having had treatment for breast cancer in 1991, aged 26; the disease returned in 2000 throughout her body. During the next six years, Tomlinson completed the London Marathon three times, the London Triathlon twice, the New York Marathon once and cycled across Europe and the United States. Jane Tomlinson died in 2007, aged 43.
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- Born
- Feb 21, 1964
Wakefield - Spouses
- Mike Tomlinson
( - 2007/09/03)
- Mike Tomlinson
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Died
- Sep 3, 2007
Leeds
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on July 23, 2013
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