Barbara Sargeant
- June 23, 2021
- 81 years
About Barbara Sargeant
Barbara Sargeant, 81, Australian Olympic swimmer (1956).
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|Barbara Elizabeth Sargeant (née Evans; 28 January 1940 – 23 June 2021) was an Australian swimmer. She competed in the women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Two years after 1956 Olympic Games, she won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and finished fifth in the 200m breaststroke final at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.
She married Graham Sargeant, who also had a swimming background and won an Australian junior surf belt championship. She had two children - former Hockeyroo Megan Oman (née Sargeant) and son Andrew.
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