William Price (swimmer)

As a 14-year-old, Price was a proficient butterfly swimmer,^[2] completing a mile course in under 25 minutes.^[1] He would later specialise in breaststroke^[3] but in 1968 won the boys open medley at the 1968 inter-club swimming gala.^[4]

He swam for the Hornchurch Amateur Swimming Club^[5] and won the 220 yards breaststroke at the 1970 Commonwealth Games trials.^[6]

Price subsequently represented the England team^[7] at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,^[8] where he participated in the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke events.