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

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. In the

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, Perrott was appointed a

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, for services to swimming. She was considered a possible medallist for the 1980 Summer Olympics but was denied the opportunity due to the boycott by the majority of New Zealand Olympic sports associations. At 15 she was the youngest person to represent New Zealand at the Olympics. At 12½ she was the youngest competitor at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games; swimming for Fiji as her father was Registrar at the

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.''Wellington’s swim queen'' in "The Wellingtonian", 21 March 2013 p12 In 1994 she won a silver medal at the world surf championships in Britain. In 2011, she broke six New Zealand Masters swimming records.

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* * * 1961 births Living people New Zealand female swimmers Olympic swimmers of New Zealand Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand New Zealand female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Wellington City Fijian female swimmers Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji Swimmers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games People educated at Wellington Girls' College New Zealand expatriates in Fiji Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century New Zealand women 21st-century New Zealand women Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-swimming-bio-stub

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