About Catherine Gibson
Catherine Gibson, later known by her married name Catherine Brown, was a Scottish swimmer. During a 16-year career she won three European Championships medals and a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, Britain's sole swimming trophy in the home-based Games. In 2008, she was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. Gibson won silver medals in the 400m freestyle and the 100m backstroke and a bronze in the 100m freestyle relay. At the start of the Olympics, four months past her seventeenth birthday, Gibson made her first journey to London, without her family because they could not afford the cost of the trip. She won a prize in a girls' competition in 1942.
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