Nan Rae
Appearance
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National team | Great Britain Scotland | |||||||||||
Born | Motherwell, Scotland | 14 January 1944|||||||||||
Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Medal record
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A. W. "Nan" Rae (born 13 January 1944) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer.
Swimming career
[edit]She won a bronze medal in the women's 400-metre freestyle at the 1958 European Aquatics Championships.[1] She finished sixth in the same event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[2]
She won the 1961 ASA National Championship 220 yards freestyle title and the 440 yards freestyle.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Nancy RAE. les-sports.info
- ^ Nan Rae. sports-reference.com
- ^ ""Swimmers Beat Four Records." Times, 2 Sept. 1961, p. 4". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""Miss Edwards To Retire." Times, 30 Aug. 1961, p. 4". Times Digital Archive.
Categories:
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Motherwell
- Scottish female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- British female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
- Swimmers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen
- Scottish sportspeople stubs
- British swimming biography stubs