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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