Career
She went on to become a senior athletics administrator. She competed in the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal and 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow and was the gold medalist in the 100m hurdles at the Commonwealth games in 1978 and the silver medallist in the event in 1982. She went on to become the athletics Great Britain team manager for 9 years and was the Senior Team Manager for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
She has worked for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and was involved in setting up the IAAF Academy and World Class Coaches Club and the lottery funded World Class Performance Programme.
She coaches hurdlers and sprinters at junior level and is on the Board of the Olympians Committee United Kingdom. Her son Tremayne Gilling is a sprinter with a personal best time of 10.25 seconds over 100 metres.