Anita Lonsborough

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Anita Lonsborough MBE (born August 10, 1941 in Huddersfield) is a former swimmer from Great Britain.

She was the first female flag bearer for Britain when she carried the flag in the 1964 Summer Olympics. She was also the first woman to swim the 200 metres breaststroke in under 2mins 50 seconds, when she beat Wiltrud Urselmann.

Lonsborough was a Treasurer's Office clerk employed at the Huddersfield Town Hall. She won her first Gold Medal for swimming in the 1958 Empire Games 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.

Lonsborough was the first woman winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1962. She currently is a sports commentator and journalist, and lives with her husband, Hugh Porter, in Wolverhampton.

Preceded by
Stirling Moss		 BBC Sports Personality of the Year
1962		 Succeeded by
Dorothy Hyman
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BBC Sports Personality of the Years winners

SPOTY winners · (1954) Christopher Chataway · (1955) Gordon Pirie · (1956) Jim Laker · (1957) Dai Rees · (1958) Ian Black · (1959) John Surtees · (1960) David Broome · (1961) Stirling Moss · (1962) Anita Lonsborough · (1963) Dorothy Hyman · (1964) Mary Rand · (1965) Tom Simpson · (1966) Bobby Moore · (1967) Henry Cooper · (1968) David Hemery · (1969) Ann Jones · (1970) Henry Cooper · (1971) HRH The Princess Anne · (1972) Mary Peters · (1973) Jackie Stewart · (1974) Brendan Foster · (1975) David Steele · (1976) John Curry · (1977) Virginia Wade · (1978) Steve Ovett · (1979) Sebastian Coe · (1980) Robin Cousins · (1981) Ian Botham · (1982]) Daley Thompson · (1983) Steve Cram · (1984) Torvill & Dean · (1985) Barry McGuigan · (1986) Nigel Mansell · (1987) Fatima Whitbread · (1988) Steve Davis · (1989) Nick Faldo · (1990) Paul Gascoigne · (1991) Liz McColgan · (1992) Nigel Mansell · (1993) Linford Christie · (1994) Damon Hill · (1995) Jonathan Edwards · (1996) Damon Hill · (1997) Greg Rusedski · (1998) Michael Owen · (1999) Lennox Lewis · (2000) Steve Redgrave · (2001) David Beckham · (2002) Paula Radcliffe · (2003) Jonny Wilkinson · (2004) Kelly Holmes · (2005) Andrew Flintoff · (2006) Zara Phillips

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