Jacqueline Townsend

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Jacqueline Townsend
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
BornQ2. 1939 [1]
Newport, Wales
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event
 Freestyle
ClubMaindee SC

Jacqueline M. Townsend (born 1939) is a former Welsh swimmer who specialised in freestyle and competed at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Townsend was born Newport, Wales, and held the Welsh junior title and Welsh junior record over 100 yards freestyle. [2] A clerk by trade, she swam for the Maindee Swimming Club [3] and was selected for the Welsh international team in 1957. [4]

She represented the Welsh team [5] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where she competed in the 110 yards freestyle event [6] and helped Wales secure a sixth place finish in the final of the women's 110 yards freestyle relay, with Geraldine Francis, Jocelyn Hooper and Gillian Howells. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Townsend, Jacqueline M". 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. ↑ "Late choice" . Western Mail. 19 July 1958. p. 19. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Brockway's tenth cap" . Western Mail. 19 July 1958. p. 12. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Wales Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "They wear the Red Dragon" . Western Mail. 18 July 1958. p. 25. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "The Welsh Swimming Team" . Pontypridd Observer. 19 July 1958. p. 22. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.


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