Penny McCarthy is a New Zealand

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. She won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres butterfly representing her country at the

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, recording a time of 1:02.27, and finishing 0.35 s behind the winner,

Wendy Quirk Wendy Quirk (born May 29, 1959) is a former competition swimmer who represented Canada in international swimming events during the 1970s. Quirk won eleven medals in major international swimming championships, spanning the FINA World Championship ...

from Canada. She also competed in the 200 metres butterfly at those games, but finished ninth in the heats and did not progress further. At the 1978 World Swimming Championships in

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, McCarthy finished 12th in the women's 100 metres butterfly. The following year, at the 1978 Australian national swimming championships in

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, she was second in the women's 100 metres butterfly, behind fellow New Zealander

Rebecca Perrott Rebecca Vivian Mary Perrott (born 20 June 1961) is a swimmer from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the women's 200 metres freestyle at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. She was fourth in the women's 400m freestyle at the 1976 Summer Olympi ...

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand female swimmers Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand New Zealand female butterfly swimmers Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-swimming-bio-stub

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