June Croft

Personal information

Full name

June Alexandra Croft

National team

Great Britain

Born

17 June 1963
Ashton-in-Makerfield, England

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Weight

60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Freestyle

Club

Wigan Swim Club

Medal record

Women's swimming
Competitor for Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	4×100 m medley
	1984 Los Angeles	400 m freestyle
Commonwealth Games
Competitor for England
	1982 Brisbane	100 m freestyle
	1982 Brisbane	200 m freestyle
	1982 Brisbane	4×100 m freestyle
	1982 Brisbane	4×100 m medley
	1990 Auckland	4×200 m freestyle
	1982 Brisbane	400 m freestyle
	1990 Auckland	4×100 m freestyle

June Alexandra Croft (born 17 June 1963) is an English former freestyle swimmer who represented her Great Britain at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980. At her Olympic debut in Moscow, she won the silver medal in the women's 4×100-metre medley relay, followed by the bronze in the women's 400-metre freestyle four years later at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

References

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1930 – 1934: 100 yards 1938 – 1966: 110 yards 1970 – 2014: 100 metres

1930: Joyce Cooper (ENG) 1934: Phyllis Dewar (CAN) 1938: Evelyn de Lacy (AUS) 1950: Marjorie McQuade (AUS) 1954: Lorraine Crapp (AUS) 1958: Dawn Fraser (AUS) 1962: Dawn Fraser (AUS) 1966: Marion Lay (CAN) 1970: Angela Coughlan (CAN) 1974: Sonya Gray (AUS) 1978: Carol Klimpel (CAN) 1982: June Croft (ENG) 1986: Jane Kerr (CAN) 1990: Karen van Wirdum (AUS) 1994: Karen Pickering (ENG) 1998: Sue Rolph (ENG) 2002: Jodie Henry (AUS) 2006: Libby Lenton (AUS) 2010: Alicia Coutts (AUS) 2014: Cate Campbell (AUS)

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 200 m Freestyle

1970: Karen Moras (AUS) 1974: Sonya Gray (AUS) 1978: Rebecca Perrott (NZL) 1982: June Croft (ENG) 1986: Susie Baumer (AUS) 1990: Hayley Lewis (AUS) 1994 – 1998: Susie O'Neill (AUS) 2002: Karen Pickering (ENG) 2006: Caitlin McClatchey (SCO) 2010: Kylie Palmer (AUS) 2014: Emma McKeon (AUS)

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1930: 4×100 Yards Freestyle 1934–1966: 4×110 Yards Freestyle 1970–2010: 4×100 Metres Freestyle

1930: England (J. Cooper, D. Cooper, Joynes, Harding) 1934: Canada (Dewar, Humble, Hutton, Pirie) 1938: Canada (Oxenbury, Lyon, Baggaley, Dewar) 1950: Australia (Spencer, Norton, Davies, McQuade) 1954: South Africa (Loveday, Harrison, Petzer, Myburgh) 1958: Australia (Colquhoun, Fraser, Crapp, Morgan) 1962: Australia (Fraser, Bell, Thorn, Everuss) 1966: Canada (Tanner, Hughes, Kennedy, Lay) 1970: Australia (Cain, Langford, Watts, Watson) 1974: Canada (Jardin, Smith, Amundrud, Wright) 1978: Canada (Klimpel, Amundrud, Sloan, Quirk) 1982: England (Gore, Willmott, Croft, Fibbens) 1986: Canada (Nugent, Kerr, Rai, Noall) 1990: Australia (Mullens, Wirdum, Curry-Kenny, O'Neill) 1994: Australia (Windsor, Lewis, Stevenson, O'Neill) 1998: Australia (Rooney, Denman, Thomas, O'Neill) 2002: Australia (Mills, Henry, Thomas, Ryan) 2006: Australia (Lenton, Henry, Mills, Reese) 2010: Australia (Coutts, Guehrer, Galvez, Seebohm) 2014: Australia (B. Campbell, Schlanger, McKeon, C. Campbell)

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June Croft

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