Jacqueline Townsend
British swimmer
About Jacqueline Townsend
Born 1939.
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. A clerk by trade, she swam for the Maindee Swimming Club and was selected for the Welsh international team in 1957.
She represented the Welsh team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where she competed in the 110 yards freestyle event 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.
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British swimmer
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Jacqueline Townsend was born in 1939.
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