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After retiring to raise two children, she returned after five years to swim across [[Lake Erie]] in Canada, and two firsts: the first double crossing of Cook Strait by a woman and a circumnavigation of [[Rarotonga]]. |
After retiring to raise two children, she returned after five years to swim across [[Lake Erie]] in Canada, and two firsts: the first double crossing of Cook Strait by a woman and a circumnavigation of [[Rarotonga]]. |
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In the [[1978 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|1978 Queen's Birthday Honours]], McKenzie was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the Order of the British Empire]], for being the first New Zealand woman to swim Cook Strait and the first person to swim Cook Strait in both directions.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1978/51.pdf |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 1978 |date=9 June 1978 |work=Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette |page=1650 |issue=51}}</ref> |
In the [[1978 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|1978 Queen's Birthday Honours]], McKenzie was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the Order of the British Empire]], for being the first New Zealand woman to swim Cook Strait and the first person to swim Cook Strait in both directions.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1978/51.pdf |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 1978 |date=9 June 1978 |work=Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette |page=1650 |issue=51}}</ref> In 1996, she was inducted into the [[New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/New-Zealand-Sports-Hall-of-Fame-Inductees/M/Meda-McKenzie |title=Meda McKenzie |publisher=New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame |access-date=23 April 2024}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:12, 23 April 2024
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| Birth name | Meda-Therese McKenzie |
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Long-distance swimming |
Meda-Therese McKenzie MBE (born 1963), generally known as Meda McKenzie, is a former New Zealand long-distance swimmer, who was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.[1]
At fifteen she swam Cook Strait, and later (in 1978) swam it in the opposite direction. She also swam Foveaux Strait; and in England the English Channel and a double crossing of the Bristol Channel.
After retiring to raise two children, she returned after five years to swim across Lake Erie in Canada, and two firsts: the first double crossing of Cook Strait by a woman and a circumnavigation of Rarotonga.
In the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours, McKenzie was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for being the first New Zealand woman to swim Cook Strait and the first person to swim Cook Strait in both directions.[2] In 1996, she was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
References
- Ron Palenski (2002). Profiles of Fame: The Stories of New Zealand’s Greatest Sports Achievers. New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. p. 29. ISBN 0-473-08536-4.
- ^ http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/M/Meda-McKenzie.aspx Sports Hall of Fame website
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 1978" (PDF). Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette. No. 51. 9 June 1978. p. 1650.
- ^ "Meda McKenzie". New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
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