Pat Beavan - Wales Gold '74 Commonwealth Games

Pat Beavan made history in 1974 when she became the first woman ever to win gold for Wales at a Commonwealth games when she won gold in the games in Christchurch, New Zealand, seeing off Australia's Olympic champion Beverley Whitfield in the 200m breaststroke final. Pat is wearing the pink swimming cap. It would be 32 years before Wales would claim another swimming Gold at a Commonwealth Games, when David Davies won the 1500m freestyle at Melbourne in 2006. And it would be a further eight years before a Welsh woman would emulate Pat Beavan's magnificent feat, when Jazz Carlin set a new Games record of eight minutes 18.11 seconds as she took the 800m freestyle title at Glasgow 2014.