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Betty Main
Personal information
Birth nameClarice Lora Betty Moore
BornJanuary 1929 (1929-01) (age 95)
OccupationAnaesthetist
SpouseBrian William Main (died 2009)
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
SportDiving
Achievements and titles
National finalsDiving champion (1949)
Tower diving champion (1952, 1953)

Clarice Lora Betty Main (née Moore; born January 1929) is a former New Zealand diver, who represented her country at the 1950 British Empire Games.

Early life and education

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Born in January 1929,[1] Main was educated at St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin where she was the senior swimming and diving champion in 1945 and 1946.[2][3][4] She was also active in surf lifesaving.[5] She went on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1955.[6]

Swimming and diving

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Moore began swimming with the Dunedin Swimming Club as a junior in the 1930s.[7] In 1943, she won the South Island junior girls' diving title,[8] and in 1945 she was runner-up in the national intermediate girls' diving championship.[5] Moore won the New Zealand national women's diving championship in 1949,[9] and then competed for New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland.[10] She finished eighth in the women's 3 m springboard.[11] Subsequently, Moore won the New Zealand women's tower diving championship in 1952 and 1953.[9]

Later life

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Moore was married to Brian William Main; he died in 2009.[12] Betty Main worked as an anaesthetist at Dunedin Hospital, and lives in retirement in Wānaka.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Women diver honoured". Otago Daily Times. 26 January 1950. p. 4. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  2. ^ "St. Hilda's College". Otago Daily Times. 27 April 1940. p. 19. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Swimming: St. Hilda's sports". Evening Star. 7 April 1945. p. 9. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Swimming: St Hilda's sports". Evening Star. 13 April 1946. p. 11. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Sport and pastimes". Otago Daily Times. 3 May 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  6. ^ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Me–Mo". Shadows of Time. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Dunedin club notes". Otago Daily Times. 12 January 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Success of Otago swimmers". Otago Daily Times. 28 January 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  9. ^ a b McLintock, A.H., ed. (1966). "Swimming – national championships". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  10. ^ Betty Moore at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
  11. ^ "Diving 3m springboard – women Auckland 1950". Commonwealth Games Federation. 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  12. ^ a b Cook, Marjorie (20 May 2011). "Been there, done that: still skiing at 82". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
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