Judy Grinham

Judith Brenda Grinham, born 5 March 1939 and known as Judy Grinham, is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and European championships and England at the Commonwealth Games. She won the 100 metre backstroke at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in a world record 1:12.9, the first British Olympic swimming gold since Lucy Morton in 1924. In 1958 she won the 100 metre backstroke at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and at the European Championships in Budapest, and became the first woman in any sport to hold World, Olympic, European and Commonwealth titles at once. She retired in 1959, was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1981 and was appointed MBE in 2007.