Anita Lonsbrough
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| Women's swimming | ||
Representing  Great Britain
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1960 Rome | 200 m breaststroke |
| European Championships | ||
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1962 Leipzig | 200 m breaststroke |
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1958 Budapest | 200 m breaststroke |
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1962 Leipzig | 400 m individual medley |
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1958 Budapest | 4×100 m medley |
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1962 Leipzig | 4×100 m medley |
Representing  England
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| British Empire and Commonwealth Games | ||
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1958 Cardiff | 220 yd breaststroke |
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1958 Cardiff | 4×110 yd medley |
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1962 Perth | 110 yd breaststroke |
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1962 Perth | 220 yd breaststroke |
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1962 Perth | 440 yd individual medley |
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1962 Perth | 4×110 yd medley |
Anita Lonsbrough, MBE (born 10 August 1941 in York), later known by her married name Anita Porter, is a former swimmer from Great Britain who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff she won gold in the 220 yards breaststroke and the medley relay.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, on 27 August 1960, at the age of 19, she won gold in the 200 m breaststroke in 2:49.5 ahead of West Germany's Wiltrud Urselmann (2:50.0), setting a new world record time. She was one of only two GB gold medallists that year, the other being Don Thompson in the 50 kilometre walk.
She would also be the last British woman to win Olympic gold in swimming until Rebecca Adlington gained the gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 48 years later.
At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth she won three golds: 110 yards breaststroke; 220 yards breaststroke; and 440 yards individual medley.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she came seventh in the 400 m individual medley
Lonsbrough was educated at St. Joseph's Catholic College, Bradford, a girls' direct grant grammar school. She became a Treasurer's Office clerk employed at the Huddersfield Town Hall. She won her first gold medal for swimming in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. Five world records and seven gold medals followed until her retirement in 1964. At one time she held the Olympic, Empire and European titles at the same time.
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