Collection of materials on the sporting career of Irene Steer, digitised as part of the Women and Sport: Wales project by Women's Archive Wales. Irene Steer was a freestyle swimmer who won the gold medal as the anchor leg of the 4 X 100 metres freestyle British relay team at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. She was the first Welsh woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Steer dominated Welsh swimming between 1907 and 1913, holding the Welsh Ladies’ 100
