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Graham Huxtable
Welsh swimmer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Strefford Graham Huxtable (17 July 1916 – 2004)[1] was a Welsh competitive swimmer, who specialised in backstroke. He represented Wales at two British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games).
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Huxtable was educated at Swansea Grammar School and was a member of the Swansea Swimming Club and was the backstroke champion of Wales in 1934, setting a Welsh record of 1 min 14.1/5sec.[2]
He won the Welsh backstroke qualifying event for the 1934 Empire Games[3] but failed to reach the finals of the freestyle and backstroke events at the Games.[4]
In 1937, he won the Taff Swim held in Roath Park Lake.[5] He also represented the Welsh team and reached the final of the 110 yards backstroke at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia.[6]
At the time of the Games, he was a factory manager for a tin plate manufacturer and living at 16 Myrtle Grove, Glanmor in Swansea.[1] At the 1938 Empire Games he met the English diver Jean Gilbert and the pair would later marry in 1942 in Swansea.[7]
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