British Olympic champion swimmer to auction off gold medal
Anita Lonsbrough was one of only two British gold medallists at the Rome 1960 Olympics
Anita Lonsbrough was a 19-year-old council treasurer's clerk in Huddersfield when she set a new world record in the 200m breaststroke. Also going under the hammer is a "primitive" swimming costume which Ms Lonsbrough wore in the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, where she won her first two gold medals.
Other memorabilia going up for sale includes Ms Longsbrough's first tracksuit top, which a present from her parents when she first started swimming competitively, souvenir programmes, and a Team GB Olympics towelling robe in which her name is spelled incorrectly as "LonsboroughMs Lonsbrough, who now lives in Wolverhampton, said "a lot of people struggled with the name" but "not so much after the Olympic gold medal".
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