Background
Baptiste was born in Saint Vincent and was a member of the Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club.
Baptiste was born in Saint Vincent and was a member of the Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club.
Her teammates were Kathy Cook, Bev Callender and Shirley Thomas. They ran 42.71 secs, finishing behind the East Germans and just ahead of the fast finishing Jamaicans. She also reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres.
Baptiste reached the 200 metres semi-finals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, running a lifetime best of 22.86 secretaries
She improved her own United Kingdom indoor record to 23.33 secs in Stuttgart in 1985. She went on to finish fourth in the 200 metres final at the 1985 European Indoor Championships.
Her 23.33 would remain the national indoor record for nine years, until Katharine Merry ran 23.00 in 1994, in Glasgow. 100 metres - 11.32 Zurich SWI 24/08/83
200 metres - 22.86 Los Angeles United States of America 09/08/84
200 metres (indoors) 23.33 23/02/1985 (former United Kingdom indoor record).