Geoffrey Boothby Saunders (25 January 1929 – 30 October 2019) was an English cross country runner.

[1][2] Saunders grew up around the Lake District, having moved the due to wartime evacuation.

He retired from the sport in 1953 at the age of 24 as his job at a chemists required him to work weekends.

[3] At the International Cross Country Championships he was England's top finisher in fifth in 1949, leading the English men (including Frank Aaron and Len Eyre) to second in the team rankings behind France.

[5] Aaron and Olney were in the International champion team of 1951, as was Walter Hesketh – a regional rival of Saunders'.