• Anita Lonsbrough, MBE (born 10 August 1941 in York), later known by her married name Anita Porter, is an English former swimmer from Great Britain who...
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  • songwriter Anita Lizana (1915–1994), Chilean tennis player Anita Lo, American chef and restaurateur Anita Lonsbrough MBE (born 1941), British swimmer Anita Loos...
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    born in Scholes; the York-born Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, Anita Lonsbrough; and the Brighouse born inventor Wilf Lunn, who was raised in Rastrick...
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     Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) Swimming 8th 1961  Stirling Moss (ENG) Formula One  Billy Walker (ENG) Boxing  Angela Mortimer (ENG) Tennis 9th 1962  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG)...
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    She was the first woman to win swimming gold for Great Britain since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. She was the first British swimmer to win more than one gold...
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    1976, the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. He is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth,...
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    Hugh Porter from the world of cycling, the Olympic medallist swimmer Anita Lonsbrough, professional darts player Wayne Jones, racing driver and winner of...
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  • (d. 2003) 1940 – Sid Waddell, English sportscaster (d. 2012) 1941 – Anita Lonsbrough, English swimmer and journalist 1941 – Susan Dorothea White, Australian...
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  • breaststroke  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) 1:21.3  Vivien Haddon (NZL) 1:21.3  Dorinda Fraser (ENG) 1:21.7 220 yd breaststroke  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) 2:51.7...
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    the following year and remained a co-presenter until 1983. Swimmer Anita Lonsbrough became the first female recipient of the main award in 1962; females...
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    Natalie Steward 1960 Rome Swimming Women's 100 metre backstroke  Gold Anita Lonsbrough 1960 Rome Swimming Women's 200 metre breaststroke  Silver Robert McGregor...
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  • Edwards (ENG) 1:12.6  Philippa Gould (NZL) 1:13.7 220 yd breaststroke  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) 2:53.5  Jackie Dyson (ENG) 2:58.2  Christine Gosden (ENG) 2:58...
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  • II. Adrian Littlejohn (born 1970) – footballer, midfielder/forward Anita Lonsbrough (born 1941) – gold medallist in swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
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    den Haan  Netherlands 4 August 1957 - Rhenen, Netherlands 23 2:50.3 Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain 25 July 1959 Netherlands vs Great Britain International...
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    (1940–), professional track cyclist and commentator, and his wife Anita Lonsbrough (1941–), swimmer, live in Tettenhall. Children's television presenter...
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    was a guest challenger on the TV panel show What's My Line? (episode with Anita Ekberg). In 1959 he was the subject of the TV programme This Is Your Life...
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  •  Hungary Eva-Maria Elsen  United Team of Germany 1960 Rome details Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany Barbara Göbel...
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    since 2011 of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Anita Lonsbrough — winner of the women's 200m breaststroke at the 1960 Rome Olympics...
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  • three consecutive females, for the first time since the 1960s, when Anita Lonsbrough, Dorothy Hyman and Mary Rand won it in consecutive years. Stuart Broad's...
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    Willenhall. He is married to British Olympic swimming gold medallist, Anita Lonsbrough; they met while travelling to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics and...
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  • covering the sport at many Olympic and Commonwealth Games, often with Anita Lonsbrough. He occasionally commentated on cricket, and often covered the Oxford...
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  • Sergei Ponomarenko Marina Klimova Ice dancing  Russia Hugh Porter Anita Lonsbrough Cycle sport Swimming  United Kingdom ( England) Jeff Porter Tiffany...
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  • 1 Q 4 . 3 Bärbel Walter 2:57.3 Q 5. 3 Alla Kovalenko 2:57.4 Q 6. 2 Anita Lonsbrough 3:00.0 Q 7. 1 Eleonore Lehmann 3:00.7 Q 8. 2 Vinka Jeričević 3:01.0...
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  • then switched to the metric conversion of 200 metres in 1971. In 1962 Anita Lonsbrough set a world record of 2.52.2 sec in the final. Aquatics GB List of...
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  •  Margaret Grundy (ENG) 1958  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG)  Jackie Dyson (ENG)  Christine Gosden (ENG) 1962  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG)  Jacqueline Enfield (ENG)...
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    record in the same event (02:50.2), beating the previous record of Anita Lonsbrough. Two months later, in the 1960 Summer Olympics finals, she swam even...
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  •  United Team of Germany Swimming Men's 100 metre freestyle John Devitt  Australia OR Women's 200 metre breaststroke Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain WR...
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  • Britain 1:10.8 Satoko Tanaka  Japan 1:11.4 200 m breaststroke details Anita Lonsbrough  Great Britain 2:49.5 (WR) Wiltrud Urselmann  United Team of Germany...
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  •  Elenor Gordon (SCO) 1954:  Elenor Gordon (SCO) 1958:  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) 1962:  Anita Lonsbrough (ENG) 1966:  Jill Slattery (ENG) 1970:  Beverley Whitfield (AUS)...
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  • International Blackpool, United Kingdom 11 4:54.0 (yd) Judy Grinham  (1:10.9) Anita Lonsbrough  (1:23.3) Christine Gosden  (1:14.2) Diana Wilkinson  (1:04.6)  Great...
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