Hugh porter anita lonsbrough biography

          Anita Lonsbrough, MBE later known by her married name Anita Porter, is an English former swimmer from Great Britain who won a gold medal at the Summer..

          Wolverhampton's golden athletics couple Anita and her husband Hugh Porter recall how a chance meeting on the plane to Japan led to 56 years of marriage.

        1. Wolverhampton's golden athletics couple Anita and her husband Hugh Porter recall how a chance meeting on the plane to Japan led to 56 years of marriage.
        2. Anita retired after the Games.
        3. Anita Lonsbrough, MBE later known by her married name Anita Porter, is an English former swimmer from Great Britain who won a gold medal at the Summer.
        4. Hugh William Porter MBE (born Wolverhampton, England, 27 January ) is one of Britain's greatest former professional cyclists, winning four world titles.
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          6. Anita Lonsbrough

          British swimmer (born 1941)

          Born10 August 1941 (1941-08-10) (age 83)
          York, England
          SportSwimming

          Anita Lonsbrough, MBE (born 10 August 1941 in York[1]), later known by her married name Anita Porter, is an English former swimmer from Great Britain who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

          Swimming career

          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.[2] She was one of only two GB gold medallists that year, the other being Don Thompson in the 50 kilometre walk.[3]

          She would also be the last British woman to win Olympic gold in swimming until Rebecca Adlington gained the gold in the 2008 Summer O