Meda McKenzie
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 the Cook Strait in both directions.[2]
References
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- ↑ http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/M/Meda-McKenzie.aspx Sports Hall of Fame website
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47551. p. 6271. 3 June 1978. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
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