Rose Amankwaah, who represented Ghana at the 1972 Olympics, started working in the NHS in 1975.
A London nurse once described as the "fastest woman in Africa" is retiring after almost five decades in the NHS.
She was initially given weekends off so she could continue her athletics training, where she ran alongside a young Linford Christie.Image caption,Mrs Amankwaah, then Rose Asiedua, won a bronze medal at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand. During her time at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, the mother-of-four and grandmother-of-10 has met both royalty and senior politicians.Rose Amankwaah met the then Prince Charles when he visited the hospital
Her first trip in retirement will be to Ghana to visit her 87-year-old sister, with a number of other holidays in the pipeline.On her sprinting career she said: "I started running in 1958 when I was in secondary school in Ghana.
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