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Full name | Margaret Edwards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 28 March 1939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Heston S.C. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Margaret Edwards (born 28 March 1939) is an English former competitive swimmer.
Edwards was born on 28 March 1939.[1]
She represented Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a bronze medal in the women's 100-metre backstroke in the time of 1:13.1.[2]
At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, she won a gold medal and a silver medal in the women's 440-yard medley relay and 110-yard backstroke respectively, while representing England.[3][4][5] At the ASA National British Championships she won the 110 yards backstroke title twice (1959, 1961).[6][7]