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| Born | Rebecca Vivian Mary Perrott (1961-06-20)20 June 1961 (age 64) Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Fiji New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Vivian Mary PerrottMBE (born 20 June 1961) is aswimmer from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the women's 200 metresfreestyle at the1978 Commonwealth Games. She was fourth in the women's 400m freestyle at the1976 Summer Olympics.
In the1980 New Year Honours, Perrott was appointed aMember of the Order of the British Empire, for services to swimming.[1] She was considered a possible medallist for the1980 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.[2] At 12½ she was the youngest competitor at the1974 British Commonwealth Games; swimming for Fiji as her father was Registrar at theUniversity of the South Pacific.[3]
In 1994 she won a silver medal at the world surf championships in Britain.[3] In 2011, she broke six New Zealand Masters swimming records.[4]
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| Preceded by | Lonsdale Cup of theNew Zealand Olympic Committee 1978 | Succeeded by |
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