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| Birth name | Barbara Elizabeth Evans | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||
| Born | 28 January 1940 | |||||||||||
| Died | 23 June 2021(2021-06-23) (aged 81) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||
| Club | Drummoyne Swimming Club | |||||||||||
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Barbara Elizabeth Sargeant (née Evans; 28 January 1940 – 23 June 2021) was an Australian swimmer. She competed in the women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Two years after 1956 Olympic Games, she won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and finished fifth in the 200m breaststroke final at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.
She married Graham Sargeant, who also had a swimming background and won an Australian junior surf belt championship. She had two children - former Hockeyroo Megan Oman (née Sargeant) and son Andrew.
References
- ^ "Vale Barbara Sargeant (nee Evans)". Swimming Australia. 1 July 2021. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- "Barbara Evans". Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Barbara Evans Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
External links
- Barbara Evans at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Barbara Evans at Olympedia
- Barbara Evans at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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