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Lynette Farkash

Personal information
Birth name	Lynette Brake
Sport
Country	New Zealand
Sport	Gymnastics
Medal record Representing  New Zealand Women's gymnastics Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton Team all-around

Lynette Farkash (née Brake) is a former New Zealand gymnast. She won a bronze medal representing her country—alongside Kirsty Durward, Rowena Davis and Deborah Hurst—in the women's all-around team event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. Also at those games, she finished 17th in the women's individual all-round.

Farkash was the manager and head women's artistic gymnastics coach at Mid-Island Gym Sports in Rotorua.

References

1. "Gymnastics artistic team competition – women Edmonton 1978". Commonwealth Games Federation. 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
2. ^ "Rotorua women in sixties, seventies and eighties use gymnastics to manage falls-risk". Rotorua Daily Post. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
3. Lynette Brake at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
4. "Mid Island Gym Sports (MIGS in Motion)". Citizens Advice Bureau. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
5. "About us". Mid-Island Gym Sports. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

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