Joyce Cooper

Joyce Cooper, later known by her married name Joyce Badcock, was an English competitive swimmer born on 18 April 1909 in Sri Lanka, where her father was a wealthy tea planter, and died on 22 July 2002 in Chichester. She swam for Great Britain at the Olympics and European championships and for England at the British Empire Games in the late 1920s and early 1930s. At the 1928 Olympics she won bronze medals in the 100-metre freestyle and 100-metre backstroke and a silver in the freestyle relay, and she added another relay bronze in 1932, four Olympic medals in all. She was the outstanding woman at the first British Empire Games in 1930, winning all four of her events, and she won medals at the 1927 and 1931 European Championships. In 1934 she married the Olympic rowing champion Felix Badcock.