Janice Gabrielle Cameron ; or , , ) as a girl Murphy Murphy ) is an Australian swimmer who specializes in freestyle swimming . She played for the Australian national team in the mid-1960s, silver medalist at the Tokyo Summer Olympics , winner of the bronze and two silver medals of the Commonwealth Games. Also known as a swimming coach.
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Biography
Jan Cameron was born on October 19, 1942 in Sydney , Australia . My parents had the oldest child of three children. She studied at Rosebank College [3] , initially underwent training under the guidance of coach Forbes Carlisle , later transferred to the team of Don Talbot , who also became her first husband [4] .
As an athlete, she achieved the greatest success in the 1964 season, when she joined the main team of the Australian national swimming team and thanks to a series of successful performances she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Tokyo Summer Olympics . As part of the team, which also included swimmers Robin Thorne , Lynette Bell and Don Fraser , won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay race, losing the lead only to the US team [5] .
In 1966, she represented Australia at the Games of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations in Kingston , where she won a bronze medal in swimming at 110 yards in freestyle, as well as silver medals in the discipline of 440 yards in integrated swimming and a relay race 4 × 110 yards in freestyle.
While still an active athlete, she graduated from Wollongong Pedagogical College (now Wollongong University ) and in 1968 she began coaching practice in a small swimming club located in the suburbs of Wollongong . After graduating, she devoted herself completely to coaching - she became the coach of the Australian Paralympic swimming team, assembled to participate in the 1972 Paralympic Games in Heidelberg , in particular, she was the mentor of the titled swimmer Pauline English , who also prepared for the 1976 Paralympics in Toronto . She was an assistant to her husband, Don Talbot, when he worked in the national teams of Canada, the USA and Australia. While in Canada, she graduated from Lakehead University, receiving a degree with honors in physical education and a master's degree in the field of coaching sciences [6] .
In 1990, she married Kevin Cameron and moved permanently to New Zealand, where she joined a swimming club from North Shore . Under her leadership, the club has become one of the most famous in the country, releasing several athletes of the highest level.
In 2001, Jan Cameron led the national team at the newly created Institute of Sports and Health at Auckland University of Technology . In 2008, she took the post of general manager of the New Zealand Swimming Federation, but in September 2011 she left this post due to criticism. In the period 2011-2014, she headed the sports consulting company Jan Cameron Performance Compass [7] [8] .
From 2014 to 2017, she trained the Paralympic swimming team at the University of Sunshine Coast, then until the very death she headed the coaching council of the Australian Paralympic national team [9] .
Her son from his first marriage, Scott Talbot-Cameron, also became a fairly famous swimmer, participated in two Olympic games.
She died of a transient disease on April 30, 2018 in Queensland at the age of 76 years [10] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/705079?c=people
- ↑ 1 2 Former NZ swimming coach Jan Cameron dies suddenly in Queensland
- ↑ Swimming to Success (PDF), Sursum Corda (Summer 2010). Archived on April 27, 2013. Date of treatment May 4, 2012.
- ↑ Talbot, Don. 18 // Talbot: Nothing But the Best / Don Talbot, Kevin Berry, Ian Heads. - Lothian Books, August 2003. - ISBN 978-0-7344-0512-8 .
- ↑ Jan Cameron joins elite coaching group with Platinum recognition . Swimming Australia website . Date of treatment November 20, 2015. Archived November 20, 2015.
- ↑ Humphreys, Rod . A Hamburger and Onions with Gold , The Sydney Morning Herald (November 14, 1976), p. 38. Date of access November 20, 2015.
- ↑ Background . Jan Cameron Performance Compass. Date of treatment May 4, 2012. Archived on February 8, 2013.
- ↑ Jan Cameron Performance Compass Limited . New Zealand Companies Register . Date of treatment October 13, 2014. Archived October 16, 2014.
- ↑ Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement (link not available) . Swimming Australia News . Date of treatment April 13, 2016. Archived November 13, 2016.
- ↑ Former NZ swimming coach Jan Cameron dies suddenly in Queensland . Stuff.co.nz (1 May 2018). Date of treatment May 1, 2018.
Links
- Gian Cameron - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Gian Cameron - Page on the Australian Olympic Committee website