Diana Davies (swimmer)

Diana Davies
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
Born28 September 1940[1]
Rhondda Valley, Wales
Sport
SportSwimming
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. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. 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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