Editing Coventry (section)

===Sports===
{{see also|Category:Sportspeople from Coventry}}{{More citations needed|date=November 2024}}
Notable Coventrians in sports include [[Motorcycle speedway|speedway]] rider [[Tom Farndon]];<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jacobs |first1=Norman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DapWQwAACAAJ&q=tom+farndon |title=Tom Farndon: The Greatest Speedway Rider of Them All |last2=Chaplin |first2=John |date=2010 |publisher=History Press Limited |isbn=978-0-7524-5140-4 |language=en}}</ref> [[Davis Cup]] tennis player [[Tony Mottram]]; footballers [[Graham Alexander]], [[Bobby Gould]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gould |first=Bobby |date=2013-06-13 |title=Solid Gould: Meet the family who made me the man I am |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/bobby-gould-meet-family-who-4310681 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Reg Matthews]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Live |first=Coventry |date=2001-10-15 |title=Last tributes to hero Matthews |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/last-tributes-to-hero-matthews-3175885 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Gary McSheffrey]], [[James Maddison]], [[Peter Thomas (footballer, born 1944)|Peter Thomas]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Thomas, League of Ireland's 'best ever goalkeeper,' dies |url=https://www.irishecho.com/2023/1/peter-thomas-league-of-ireland-s-best-ever-goalie-dies |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=Irish Echo Newspaper |language=en}}</ref> and [[Callum Wilson (English footballer)|Callum Wilson]]; soccer player [[Patricia O'Connor (soccer)|Patricia O'Connor]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-04 |title=Pat O'Connor {{!}} Football Australia |url=https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/pat-oconnor |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.footballaustralia.com.au |language=en}}</ref> cricketers [[Tom Cartwright]] and [[Ian Bell]];<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Daniel |date=2014-05-21 |title=Coventry and Warwickshire sportsmen who played for England |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/gallery/-7152370 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> rugby union players [[Andy Goode]],<ref name=":7" /> [[Ivor Preece]], [[Keith Fairbrother]], [[David Duckham]], [[Neil Back]],<ref name=":8" /> [[Danny Grewcock]],<ref name=":8" /> [[Geoff Evans (rugby union born 1950)|Geoff Evans]], and [[Tom Wood (rugby union)|Tom Wood]];<ref name=":8" /> squash and tennis player [[Sally Jones (journalist)|Sally Jones]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-07-27 |title=Squash-Tennis: Warwickshire duo win inaugural national championships |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/other-sport/squash-tennis-warwickshire-duo-win-inaugural-3022734 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> bantamweight boxer [[Les Tarrant]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Les Tarrant |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/3504 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref> judokas [[Chelsie Giles]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-07-25 |title=Tokyo Olympics: Chelsie Giles wins Team GB's first medal with judo bronze |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57960295 |access-date=2024-10-15 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref> and [[Yasmin Javadian]];<ref>Jennings, Will (2 August 2022). "[https://www.birminghamworld.uk/sport/other-sport/commonwealth-games-birmingham-2022-3791319 Northern Ireland judoka Yasmin Javadian on how 'home' Coventry crowd fired her to Commonwealth medal]" ''Birmingham World''. Retrieved 15 October 2024.</ref> gymnasts [[Jade Faulkner]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Jade Faulkner |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/126302 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref> and [[Rachel Smith (gymnast)|Rachel Smith]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rachel Smith {{!}} Team GB |url=https://www.teamgb.com/athlete/rachel-smith/1M4GLEiMnKfuHQghauBdCv |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.teamgb.com |language=en-gb}}</ref> [[MotoGP]] rider [[Cal Crutchlow]];<ref name="CT64" /> golfer [[Laura Davies|Dame Laura Davies]];<ref name=":1" /> sprinters [[Marlon Devonish]]<ref name="CT64" /> and [[Yasmin Liverpool]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yasmin LIVERPOOL {{!}} Profile {{!}} World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/yasmin-liverpool-14709407 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref> distance runners [[Sheila Carey]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sheila CAREY - Fourth in the 800m at the 1968 Olympic Games. - Great Britain |url=https://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics/great-britain/sheila-carey-1446/fourth-in-the-800m-at-the-1968-olympic-games_a07628/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Sporting Heroes}}</ref> [[Brian Kilby]] and [[David Moorcroft]];<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-11-04 |title=Warwickshire statues celebrate sporting heroes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-63502329 |access-date=2024-10-15 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> wrestler [[Millie McKenzie]];<ref>{{Cite web |last=Broggi |first=Fabio "Fantomius" |title=Emilia McKenzie: Profile, Career Stats, Face/Heel Turns, Titles Won & Gimmicks {{!}} Pro Wrestlers Database |url=https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/wrestlers/millie-mckenzie |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The SmackDown Hotel |language=en-gb}}</ref> swimmers [[Graham Sykes]]<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=2008-08-20 |title=Parade honour for former Coventry Olympians |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/parade-honour-former-coventry-olympians-3093860 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> and [[Daphne Wilkinson]];<ref name=":6" /> darts player [[Steve Beaton]]; and snooker player [[Dominic Dale]]. Boxer [[Errol Christie]] also grew up in Coventry.