[1] Goodwin competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, finishing 21st in the K-1 slalom event.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m sprint, but set a new British record with Hilary Peacock.
She is the first woman to canoe 225 miles of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, United States in July 1971.
[citation needed] [1][2] She is also the only British canoeist (male or female) to have competed in British teams in all four categories of canoeing: sprint, marathon, wild water racing and slalom.
[citation needed] Goodwin is also a hill climber and circuit racing driver in a Ferrari 328 since 2005.