Joy Foster

Joy Foster is a Jamaican table tennis player. She set the Guinness World Record as the youngest sportsperson to represent their country in an international match when she participated in the West Indies Championship in 1958, aged eight. She is also the first and youngest recipient of the Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year Award. Her father, Audley George Foster, known as "Gig" or "Mr Fos", was her coach.

In 1958 at age 8, Foster won a place in the Guinness record book as the world's youngest person to represent their country in international competition. She represented her country in the West Indies Championships. She won the women's singles championship; the mixed doubles partnering with Fuarnando Roberts, and the women's doubles partnering with Madge Bond.

Foster won the Jamaican Open Women's Singles title twice before the age of 12.