Penny McCarthy
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
SportSwimming
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1978 Edmonton 100 m butterfly

Penny McCarthy is a New Zealand swimmer. She won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres butterfly representing her country at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, recording a time of 1:02.27, and finishing 0.35 s behind the winner, Wendy Quirk from Canada.[1] [2] She also competed in the 200 metres butterfly at those games, but finished ninth in the heats and did not progress further.[3]

At the 1978 World Swimming Championships in West Berlin, McCarthy finished 12th in the women's 100 metres butterfly.[4] The following year, at the 1978 Australian national swimming championships in Perth, she was second in the women's 100 metres butterfly, behind fellow New Zealander Rebecca Perrott.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Penny McCarthy at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
  2. ↑ "Swimming 100m butterfly – women Edmonton 1978". Commonwealth Games Federation. 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  3. ↑ "Swimming 200m butterfly – women Edmonton 1978". Commonwealth Games Federation. 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Women 100m butterfly swimming world championship 1978 West Berlin". 1 August 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Record swim lost by timing failure". Canberra Times. 25 February 1979. p. 3. Retrieved 16 January 2022.


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