Diana Davies (swimmer)

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Diana Davies
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
Born28 September 1940 [1]
Rhondda Valley, Wales
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event
 Backstroke
ClubNottingham SC / Maindee SC

Diana Davies (born 28 September 1940) is a former Welsh swimmer who specialised in the backstroke and competed at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Davies was born in the Rhondda Valley, Wales and was a comptometer operator at Weldon and Wilkinson in Nottingham. [2] She first represented Wales in 1955. [3] In August 1956, aged 15 and living at Glendon Drive in Sherwood, Nottingham, she became the backstroke champion of Wales. [4]

Swimming for the Nottingham Swimming Club, she subsequently finished sixth in the British Championships in Blackpool [5] before retaining her national title in 1957. She also swam for the Maindee Swimming Club.

She represented the Welsh team [6] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where she competed in the 110 backstroke event and helped Wales secure a sixth place finish in the final of the women's 110 yards medley relay, with Geraldine Francis, Jocelyn Hooper, Gillian Howells and Joyce Dixon. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Davies, Diana". Free BMD. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "They swim for Wales" . Western Mail. 18 July 1958. p. 31. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Nottingham Girl Swimmer To Represent Wales" . Nottingham Evening News. 28 September 1957. p. 8. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Nottm Girl Wins Welsh Championship" . Nottingham Evening News. 16 August 1956. p. 8. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Diana swims sixth" . Nottingham Evening News. 5 September 1956. p. 8. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Wales Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  7. ↑ "The Welsh Swimming Team" . Pontypridd Observer. 19 July 1958. p. 22. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.


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