Heroic British women swimming figures who deserve statues

With the exception of mermaids – an excuse to put a bronze topless women in public – there are not enough tributes to inspirational women in the world of swimming …

The recent news that there is finally to be a statue of a woman in Parliament Square – the suffragist Millicent Fawcett – got me thinking. Which woman would I choose to make a statue of, and where would I put her? Well, she would definitely be swimming-related, and definitely not remotely royal or fictional. As @tkingdot’s infographic about the campaign shows, there are already more statues of men named John, than women who aren’t royal – or fictional.

Related: A new feminist statue is a great idea. Shame they picked the wrong feminist

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