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Lonsborough was a Treasurer 's Office Clerk employed at the Huddersfield Town Hall . She won her first Gold Medal for Swimming in the 1958 Empire Games in Cardiff . Five world records and seven gold medals followed until her retirement in 1964 . At one time she held the Olympic Gold Medal, Empire and European medals at the same time.

Lonsborough was the first woman winner of BBC Sports Personality Of The Year in 1962 . She currently is a sports commentator and journalist.