A small silver trophy cup won by the celebrated Welsh-born Olympic water polo player and swimmer Paulo ''Raddy'' Radmilovic in Cardiff 1925, hallmarke

A small silver trophy cup won by the celebrated Welsh-born Olympic water polo player and swimmer Paulo ''Raddy'' Radmilovic in Cardiff 1925, hallmarked London 1925, height 12cm., inscribed WELSH AMATEUR SWIMMING ASSn. EVENING EXPRESS, CHALLENGE CUP, MENS LONG DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP, WINNER, PAOLO RADMOLIVIC,1925 Paulo Francesco ''Raddy'' Radmilovic was born in Cardiff 5 March 1886 and was a Welsh water polo player and swimmer of Croatian and Irish origin who won four Olympic titles in a 22 year Olympic career. He won his four gold medals across three successive Olympic Games (1908, 1912 & 1920), a record which stood for a GB Olympic athlete until broken by Sir Steve Redgrave when he won his fifth gold medal at Sydney in 2000. He also competed at the 1924 & 1928 Games and was the first Briton to go to five Olympic Games, a record that would remain until eclipsed by fencer Bill Hoskyns in 1976. He was one of the original ten inductees to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Radmilovic's 1908 double-gold Olympic performances in swimming and water polo, a plaque was placed on the Cardiff International Pool to honour him.