Pat Evans

When she won the 1947 women’s individual championship of Wales, Pat Evans was a member of the Sketty Olympic Gymnastic Club in Swansea. A fellow member of the club was Jack Whitford, who won the English open title that same year. Evans’ performance was witnessed by a 1948 Olympic talent scout, and the Swansea girl got called up to the British squad for the London Games. Two months after the Olympics, Evans and Whitford married at Sketty, and at Helsinki in 1952, like his wife, he became an Olympic gymnast.