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senior record for 220 yards backstroke, thus becoming the first female swimmer to hold junior, intermediate and senior national records concurrently. She was the national champion for the 100 yards and 220 yards backstroke every year from 1944 to 1949, and in 1947 she also won the 100 yards medley and 50 yards freestyle titles.
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and won the event. At the Olympics, she reached the semi-finals of the 100 m backstroke, where she finished seventh in a time of 1:19.0. At the conclusion of the Olympic swim meet, Lane was part of an Australasian team that finished third in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the
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In 1940, Lane was the New Zealand junior champion in 50 and 100 yards freestyle and 50 yards backstroke, equalling the national junior record in the latter event. In 1943 she broke the national intermediate 100 yards backstroke record, and the following year she broke the national
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board of trustees, and was the first woman to be president of the Nelson Tasman Justice of the Peace Association. In 2011, she was inducted into Nelson's Legends of Sport. Galloway's granddaughter, Gina Galloway, won a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke at the
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in 1996, the Nelson City Council named a pedestrian walkway and street, adjacent to the city's Riverside Pool, Ngaire Lane and Ngaire Place, respectively, in Galloway's honour.
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Galloway died in Nelson on 9 July 2021, aged 95. She was the last surviving member of the 1948 New Zealand Olympic team.
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on 31 October 1925, the daughter of Mabel Doris Lane (née Saxby) and William George Lane. She was educated at
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the following year. The couple went on to have five children. Ken Galloway died in 2007.
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at the Olympic Games. Before the games, she swam in the 1948 ASA British Championships
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On 21 May 1949, Lane married Kenneth Miller Galloway—a medical student at the
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in 1980, and as a marriage celebrant in 1983. She served as a member of the
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Lane travelled to London in 1948 as the only swimmer and only woman on the
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Ngaire Galloway
Cambridge
Nelson
Otago Girls' High School
JP
1948 Summer Olympics
London
Cambridge
Otago Girls' High School
New Zealand team
100 yards backstroke
University of Otago
Thames
Nelson
justice of the peace
Nelson College
2017 Commonwealth Youth Games
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
"Obituary"




"Nelson Legends of Sport — Ngaire Galloway"
the original
"Birth"
"Ngaire Lane"
"Otago Girls High School honours its Olympians"
"Olympic team selection announced"
""Swimming." Times, 12 July 1948, p. 2"

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