Jaynie Parkhouse
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Birth name | Jaynie Margaret Parkhouse | |||||||||||||
Born | Cambridge, New Zealand | 17 April 1956|||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||
Club | Wharenui Swimming Club, Christchurch | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jaynie Margaret Hudgell (née Parkhouse, born 17 April 1956) is a retired female freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed for her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. She claimed the gold medal at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the women's 800 m freestyle and bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle.[1] Jaynie Parkhouse Drive, within Queen Elizabeth II Park, where she won her gold and bronze medals, was named after her.
Hudgell grew up in Christchurch where she attended Villa Maria College.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "Where is she now? Jaynie Parkhouse". Newsroom. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
External links[]
- Jaynie Hudgell at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Jaynie Parkhouse at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1956 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female swimmers
- New Zealand female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of New Zealand
- Swimmers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Sportspeople from Cambridge, New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- New Zealand swimming biography stubs