Georgina Parkes
Appearance
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Full name | Georgina Louise Parkes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 30 May 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Georgina Louise Parkes (born 30 May 1965) is an Australian former competitive swimmer who won a silver medal in the 200-metre backstroke at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships.[1] She also competed in four events at the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics, with the best achievement of fourth place in the 200-metre backstroke in 1984.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jean-Louis Meuret (2007), HistoFINA Volume IV – Tome IV[permanent dead link ]. MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS. Special FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (50 m.) Before Rome 2009.
- ^ Georgina Parkes Archived 13 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Australian female backstroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Swimmers from Sydney
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen
- Australian swimming biography stubs