Jan Cameron (coach)
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National team | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1947 Sydney, New South Wales |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Cameron (née Janice Gabrielle Murphy; born 1947), is an Australian former competition swimmer and coach.
She won a silver medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and three medals at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Jamaica. She coached with her former husband Don Talbot in Australia, Canada, and the United States, and then moved to New Zealand, where she worked as a coach and sporting administrator until 2011. Since May 2013 she has coached the Paralympic Swimming Program at the USC Spartans Swim Club based at University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Cameron was born in Sydney, the eldest of three children. Her two brothers were keen rugby players. She attended Rosebank College.
She won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She spent the majority of her career in the shadow of fellow Australian Dawn Fraser. She combined with Fraser, Lyn Bell and Robyn Thorn to finish second, 3.1 seconds behind the United States. At the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, she won two silver medals in the 440-yard individual medley and the freestyle relay, and bronze medal in the 110yd freestyle. Before the Commonwealth Games, she switched from Forbes Carlile's swimming team to work with Don Talbot.
After the Tokyo Olympics, she began a teaching scholarship at the Wollongong Teacher's College (now the University of Wollongong). While studying there she did coaching on the sidelines; her first coaching job was in 1968 at a small swimming club in Port Kembla. After graduation, she took the activity up full-time.
...
Wikipedia