Wendy Cearns (née Griffiths, born 25 August 1960) is an English former athlete who competed in the 400 metres hurdles.
Representing England she went on to finish fourth at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
Competing as Wendy Cearns, she narrowly missed out on Olympic selection in 1988 after she finished fourth at the AAA Championships (incorporating the Olympic trials) in 57.01, just behind Simone Laidlow who ran 57.00 in third.
Cearns then improved her best to 56.85 a week later, to rank number three in the UK for that year behind Sally Gunnell and Elaine McLaughlin.
[5] In 1989, she won the AAA Championships title in a lifetime best of 56.05,[6] to rank second in the UK behind Gunnell.