Personal information | |
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Full name | Anna Therese McVann |
National team | Australia |
Born | 30 December 1968 |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Anna Therese McVann (born 30 December 1968) is a former competition swimmer who represented Australia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. At the age of 14, Anna McVann in her first national championships broke a national age record for the 200-metre freestyle event. In 1984 she became the first female to win gold medals in all freestyle events at the Australian championships. This effort saw her automatically selected for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she was a finalist in all her events: 200-, 400-, and 800-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre freestyle relay.
In 2008 McVann was inducted into the SwimmingSA Hall of Fame.