Helen Vanderburg
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Helen Vanderburg (born January 12, 1959) is a former Canadian synchronized swimmer and world champion.
Career
Vanderburg began synchronized swimming in 1969 at age eleven.[1] From 1971 to 1973, she was a member of junior national championship teams, and in 1973 she captured the junior Canadian solo and duet championships.[1] In 1977, Vanderburg joined the senior ranks, winning the solo and duet competition with partner, Michelle Calkins at the Canadian Aquatic Championships, the first of three years that she won both events.[1] Vanderburg was the first non-American to win the World Championship at both the Solo and Duet events,[2] doing so at the 1978 World Aquatic Championships in West Berlin.[3] After Calkins' retirement in 1978, Vanderburg partnered with Kelly Kryczka and they went on to win gold in the duet, at the 1979 Pan American Games,[4] Vanderburg also won gold in the solo event. Vanderburg retired from competition in 1979.
Titles
1979
- Pan American Games (in Puerto Rico) - gold in both solo and duet; silver in the team
- Fina World Cup (in Tokyo) - gold in both solo and duet
- Pan Pacific Games (in Christchurch, New Zealand) - gold in solo
- Canadian Senior Champion - solo, duet and figures
1978
- World Aquatics Championships (in Berlin) - gold in both solo and duet
- Canadian Senior Champion - solo, duet and figures
1977
- Pan Pacific Games (in Mexico City, Mexico) - gold in duet; silver in solo and team
- Canadian Senior Champion - both solo and duet
1973
- Canadian Jr. Champion - both solo and duet
Honors
Vanderburg was awarded the Velma Springstead Trophy in 1979 as Canada's outstanding female athlete of the year[5] Vanderburg was elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[1] She was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1980,[6] and in 1985, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[5]
See also
References
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External links
- Official web site
- Canada's Sport Hall of Fame profile
- International Swimming Hall of Fame profile
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- Alberta Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian people of Dutch descent
- Swimmers from Calgary
- Canadian synchronized swimmers
- University of Calgary alumni
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
- Pan American Games gold medalists in synchronized swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists in synchronized swimming