Anne Marshall helped England win bronze in the women's 4x110 yards freestyle relay at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.
At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, held in Cardiff, Wales from 18 to 26 July 1958, English swimmer Anne Marshall competed as part of the women's 4×110 yards freestyle relay team. Swimming alongside her English teammates, Marshall contributed to a performance strong enough to secure the bronze medal in this event, one of the marquee races of the swimming program at the Games.
The British Empire and Commonwealth Games (the forerunner of today's Commonwealth Games) brought together athletes from across the Commonwealth nations in a quadrennial multi-sport festival that, for many British swimmers of the era, represented the pinnacle of international competition, second only to the Olympic Games in prestige. Earning a medal at this level required not only individual speed but also the tactical precision and teamwork essential to relay swimming.
While the exact calendar day of the relay final within the Games' nine-day swimming schedule is not clearly documented in publicly available records, the medal itself is a firmly attested and significant achievement in Marshall's competitive career. It stands as a testament to the depth of English women's swimming talent in the late 1950s and remains one of the defining accomplishments of Marshall's athletic life, cementing her place in the history of British Commonwealth sport.