Joyce Dixon

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Joyce Dixon
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
BornQ1. 1945 [1]
Rhyl, Wales
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event
 Backstroke
ClubWellington ASC
Shiverers SC, Cardiff

Joyce Dixon (born 1945) is a former Welsh swimmer who specialised in the backstroke and competed at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Dixon was born in Rhyl, North Wales but moved with her family as a young child to Wellington, Shropshire, where she attended Wrekin Road School and Wellington High School and lived at 82 Roseway. [2] [3]

In September 1957, at the age of 12, Dixon won three swimming events for Wellington Amateur Swimming Club at the Shropshire County Championships. [4] Her father was the club secretary of Wellington ASC and she was a competent swimmer in the freestyle and breaststroke in addition to her primary backstroke event. [5]

In 1958, swimming for Shiverers SC of Cardiff, she won the Welsh backstroke championship, defeating Diana Davies in the final. [6]

She represented the Welsh team [7] 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, Diana Davies and Gillian Howells. [8]

She retained her Welsh backstroke title in 1959, 1960 and 1961, the latter in a record time of 68.2 sec but missed out on selection for the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Dixon, Joyce". Free BMD. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "In Welsh Swimming Championships" . Wellington Journal. 21 June 1958. p. 12. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "To swim for Wales at Empire Games" . Wellington Journal. 5 July 1958. p. 5. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Amateur Swimming Club" . Wellington Journal. 28 September 1957. p. 18. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Twelve-Years-Old Joyce Dixon" . Wellington Journal. 2 November 1957. p. 12. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Gillian's Birthday Eve Record Swim" . Western Mail. 2 November 1957. p. 12. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Wales Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  8. ↑ "The Welsh Swimming Team" . Pontypridd Observer. 19 July 1958. p. 22. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Joyce retains Welsh titles" . Wellington Journal. 23 July 1960. p. 15. Retrieved 16 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.


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