Anita Lonsborough (born in 1940?) MBE was a Treasurer's Officeclerk employed at the HuddersfieldTown Hall. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... MBE can stand for: Member of the Order of the British Empire Mail Boxes Etc. ... In many governments, a treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury. ... An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... A clerk can be someone who works in an office and whose duties include record-keeping or correspondence. ... Huddersfield is the largest town in Europe and is situated in the county of West Yorkshire in England, near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. ... City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. ...
Anita won her first Gold Medal for swimming in the 1958EmpireGames in Cardiff. Five world records and seven gold medals followed until her retirement in 1964. At one time she held the Olympic Gold Medal, Empire and European medals at the same time. A gold medal will generally represent the highest award for achievement in a non-military field, with no restriction on eligibility. ... Swimming is the method by which living creatures move themselves through water in a method not involving simply walking on the bottom. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An empire (also known technically, abstractly or disparagingly as an imperium, and with powers known among Romans as imperium) comprises a set of regions locally ruled by governors, viceroys or client kings in the name of an emperor. ... GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ... The Norman Keep, Cardiff Castle Aerial view of the Millennium Stadium The Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales. ... Olympic can refer to: The Olympic Games, an international multi-sport event International Olympic Committee (IOC), the organization managing the Olympic Games Various stadiums in the world are known as Olympic Stadium Olympic Airlines, state run airline for Greece and successor to Olympic Airways Olympic Aviation, subsidiary of Greek flag...
Other achievement
She was the first woman to carry the Britishflag at the Olympics in Tokyo and the first woman winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1962. The tricolor flag of France A flag is a piece of coloured cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually for purposes of signalling or identification. ... Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Kokyo Imperial Palace. ... The BBC Sports Personality of the Year award has been given to one British sportsperson each year since 1954. ...
She currently is a sports commentator and journalist.
She was followed a decade later by compatriot Shane Gould, freestyle world record holder at all distances from 100 m to 1,500 m.
Successful British women swimmers of the past have included AnitaLonsborough, the winner of an Olympic gold in Rome in 1960, and Sharron Davies, Britain's best all-round swimmer and winner of a silver medal at the 1980 OlympicGames.
From the late 1970s competitive swimming was tainted by drugs taking, and there remains doubt as to whether Kristin Otto of East Germany, the greatest modern swimmer with six golds from the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, took performance-enhancing drugs.
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