title: Simon Rodhouse
text: # Simon Rodhouse
  
  Simon Dominic Rodhouse (20 April 1955 – 24 February 1983) was an English male athlete.
  
  ## Athletics career
  
  Rodhouse was a National champion after winning the 1981 UK Athletics Championships in the shot put.
  
  He represented England in the shot put, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  
  He was a PE and French teacher at St Mary's College in Southampton and was killed in a car crash (driving his V8 MGB GT) when returning home from an indoor athletics meeting at RAF Cosford on 24 February 1983.
  
  