Sylvia Hume
Appearance
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Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 1 February 1968||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sylvia Margaret Hume (born 1 February 1968), also known by her married name Sylvia Sinclair, is a New Zealand swimmer.
Hume won gold in 100 m backstroke at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1] She competed in two events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[2] She retired from the sport at age 22.[3] She lives in Bath, England with her husband and their two sons.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Medalists". Swimming New Zealand. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sylvia Hume". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Sylvia Sinclair". Swimming New Zealand. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
External links
[edit]- Sylvia Hume at World Aquatics
- Sylvia Hume at Olympedia
- Sylvia Hume at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
Categories:
- 1968 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for New Zealand
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers from Auckland
- Sportspeople from Bath, Somerset
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century New Zealand women
- 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- New Zealand swimming biography stubs