Gillian Pamela Horovitz (née Adams) (born 7 June 1955 in

Bromley, Kent Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is southeast of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 88,000 as of 2023. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, charte ...

) is an English female retired

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. She competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the women's

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Biography

In June 1979, Adams finished second behind

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at Sandbach in the British national marathon. Adams won the 1980 Paris Marathon. Adams married American screenwriter

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, in late 1981 and competed under her married name thereafter. Horovitz represented

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in the marathon, at the

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, Malaysia.

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1955 births Living people English female long-distance runners British female long-distance runners English female marathon runners British female marathon runners Paris Marathon female winners Place of birth missing (living people) Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for England 20th-century British women People from Bromley Athletes from the London Borough of Bromley 20th-century English sportswomen {{England-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub