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Birth name | Barbara Elizabeth Evans | |||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||
Born | 28 January 1940 | |||||||||||
Died | 23 June 2021 | (aged 81)|||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||
Club | Drummoyne Swimming Club | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Barbara Elizabeth Sargeant (née Evans; 28 January 1940 – 23 June 2021) [1] was an Australian swimmer. [2] She competed in the women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics. [3]
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. [1]
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. [1]