Natalie Myburgh

Personal information

Full name

Natalie Myburgh

Nationality

Born

15 May 1940

Died

21 January 2014 (aged 73)^[1]

Sport

Strokes

freestyle

Medal record

Women's Swimming
Competitor for South Africa
Olympic Games
Bronze	1956 Melbourne	4x100 m freestyle relay
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold	1954 Auckland	4×110 yd freestyle relay

Natalie Myburgh (15 May 1940 – 21 January 2014) was a South African swimmer. At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Myburgh teamed up with Felicity Loveday, Joan Harrison and Machduldt Petzer to win the 4×110 yards freestyle relay. Two years later at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Myburgh teamed up with Susan Roberts, Moira Abernethy and Jeanette Myburgh to win the 4x100 m freestyle relay.^[2]

References

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1930: 4×100 Yards Freestyle 1934–1966: 4×110 Yards Freestyle 1970–2010: 4×100 Metres Freestyle

1930: England (J. Cooper, D. Cooper, Joynes, Harding) 1934: Canada (Dewar, Humble, Hutton, Pirie) 1938: Canada (Oxenbury, Lyon, Baggaley, Dewar) 1950: Australia (Spencer, Norton, Davies, McQuade) 1954: South Africa (Loveday, Harrison, Petzer, Myburgh) 1958: Australia (Colquhoun, Fraser, Crapp, Morgan) 1962: Australia (Fraser, Bell, Thorn, Everuss) 1966: Canada (Tanner, Hughes, Kennedy, Lay) 1970: Australia (Cain, Langford, Watts, Watson) 1974: Canada (Jardin, Smith, Amundrud, Wright) 1978: Canada (Klimpel, Amundrud, Sloan, Quirk) 1982: England (Gore, Willmott, Croft, Fibbens) 1986: Canada (Nugent, Kerr, Rai, Noall) 1990: Australia (Mullens, Wirdum, Curry-Kenny, O'Neill) 1994: Australia (Windsor, Lewis, Stevenson, O'Neill) 1998: Australia (Rooney, Denman, Thomas, O'Neill) 2002: Australia (Mills, Henry, Thomas, Ryan) 2006: Australia (Lenton, Henry, Mills, Reese) 2010: Australia (Coutts, Guehrer, Galvez, Seebohm) 2014: Australia (B. Campbell, Schlanger, McKeon, C. Campbell)