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| name = Winifred Ashby |
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| country = New Zealand |
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| sport = Swimming |
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| nationals = 220 yards freestyle champion (1951, 1953, 1955, 1957)<br>440 yards freestyle champion (1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957) |
| nationals = 220 yards freestyle champion (1951, 1953, 1955, 1957)<br />440 yards freestyle champion (1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957) |
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==References== |
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{{1950 New Zealand British Empire Games team}} |
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Birth name | Winifred Clare Griffin | ||||||||||||||
Born | Kawakawa, New Zealand | 17 November 1932||||||||||||||
Died | 11 December 2018 Hibiscus Coast, New Zealand | (aged 86)||||||||||||||
Spouse | Kerry Ashby | ||||||||||||||
Relative | Murray Ashby (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
National finals | 220 yards freestyle champion (1951, 1953, 1955, 1957) 440 yards freestyle champion (1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957) | ||||||||||||||
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Winifred Clare "Winkie" Ashby (née Griffin, 17 November 1932 – 11 December 2018) was a New Zealand freestyle swimmer. At the 1950 British Empire Games she won the silver medal as part of the 4 x 110 yards freestyle relay.[1] She was also a member of the New Zealand 3 x 100 yards medley relay team that was disqualified.[1] Individually she placed fourth in the 440 yards freestyle and sixth in the 110 yards freestyle.[1] She also competed in the 440 and 110 yards freestyle at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[1]
Her only Olympic Games appearance was in 1956 at Melbourne where she swam 100 m and 400 m freestyle, and was eliminated in the heats.[2]
Griffin won nine New Zealand national swimming titles: the 220 yards freestyle in 1951, 1953, 1955 and 1957; and the 440 yards freestyle in 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, and 1957.[3]
She was married to rower Kerry Ashby, who died in 2015.[4] Winifred Ashby died of cancer on the Hibiscus Coast, north of Auckland, on 11 December 2018.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d "Winifred C. Griffin". Commonwealth Games Federation. 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ^ Winifred Griffin. sports-reference.com
- ^ McLintock, A.H., ed. (1966). "Swimming – national championships". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Winifred Ashby death notice". New Zealand Herald. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- 1932 births
- 2018 deaths
- New Zealand female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Swimmers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Olympic swimmers for New Zealand
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- New Zealand female freestyle swimmers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- 20th-century New Zealand women
- 21st-century New Zealand women
- Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games
- New Zealand swimming biography stubs