Rebecca Perrott

Rebecca Perrott

Personal information
Born	20 June 1961
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton 200 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 200 m indiv. medley 1978 Edmonton 400 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 800 m freestyle

Rebecca Vivian Mary Perrott (born 20 June 1961, Wellington, New Zealand) is a swimmer from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the women's 200 metres freestyle at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. She was fourth in the women's 400m freestyle at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Perrott was considered a possible medallist for the 1980 Summer Olympics but was denied the opportunity due to the boycott by the majority of New Zealand Olympic sports associations.

At 15 she was the youngest person to represent New Zealand at the Olympics.^[1] At 12½ she was the youngest competitor at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games; swimming for Fiji as her father was Registrar at the University of the South Pacific.^[2]

In 1994 she won a silver medal at the world surf championships in Britain.^[2] In 2011 she smashed six New Zealand Masters swimming records.^[3]

References

1. Miles, Penny (2009-06-25). "Rebecca Perrott reflects on grand swim career". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
2. Wellington’s swim queen in "The Wellingtonian", 21 March 2013 p12
3. Tanya Wood (2011-09-08). "Perrott shows her class". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-10-07.

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)

External links

• New Zealand Olympic Committee
• SR Sports Reference website