Janet Le Mare

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Janet Le Mare
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
BornQ2. 1942 [1]
Cardiff, Wales
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event
 Breaststroke
ClubCardiff Ladies SC
Newport SC

Janet Le Mare also spelt Lemare (born 1942) is a former Welsh swimmer who specialised in breaststroke and competed at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Le Mare was born in Cardiff, Wales and attended Kitchener Road School in Cardiff. Despite having progressive myopia [2] she competed in the prestigious mass start event known as the Taff Swim held in Roath Park Lake. [3] Le Mare living in Leckwith Road, Cardiff at the time was guided by a friends verbal instructions from a rowing boat. [4]

Le Mare joined the Cardiff Ladies' Swimming Club and won the 1956 Glamorgan County Championships 100 yards breaststroke title. [4]

She represented the Welsh team [5] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where she competed in the 220 yards breaststroke event. [6]

In 1960 she became Welsh breaststroke champion and set two national records at the European trials. [7] In 1962, she was swimming for Newport Swimming Club [8] and was selected for the initial team to represent Wales again, at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia but lost out on a place to breaststroke rival Cynthia Shaddick. [9]

In 1964 she married Gordon Summers in Cardiff. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Lemare, Janet". Free BMD. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "They swim for Wales" . Western Mail. 18 July 1958. p. 31. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Taff winner had cramp" . Western Mail. 30 July 1956. p. 7. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. 1 2 "Voice guides blind girl swimmer" . Western Mail. 1 August 1956. p. 5. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Wales Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "The Welsh Swimming Team" . Pontypridd Observer. 19 July 1958. p. 22. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "In the swim" . Liverpool Echo. 8 April 1961. p. 22. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Results" . Pontypridd Observer. 11 August 1962. p. 7. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "The Family Affair" . Daily Mirror. 16 August 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 17 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Marriages Dec 1964". Free BMD. Retrieved 17 October 2025.


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