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Wendy Quirk

Personal information
Full name	Wendy Quirk
National team	Canada
Born	(1959-05-29) May 29, 1959 (age 65) Montreal, Quebec
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	Pointe-Claire Swim Club
College team	University of Florida
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Canada World Championships (LC) 1978 West Berlin 100 m butterfly 1978 West Berlin 4×100 m freestyle Pan American Games 1975 Mexico City 4×100 m medley 1979 San Juan 4×100 m freestyle 1975 Mexico City 100 m butterfly 1979 San Juan 400 m freestyle Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton 100 m butterfly 1978 Edmonton 4×100 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 4×100 m medley 1974 Christchurch 400 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 200 m butterfly 1978 Edmonton 100 m freestyle

Wendy Quirk (born May 29, 1959) is a former competition swimmer who represented Canada in international swimming events during the 1970s. Quirk won eleven medals in major international swimming championships, spanning the FINA World Championships, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games.

International career

In her international debut as a 16-year-old, Quirk represented Canada at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, where she won a bronze medal for her third-place finish in the 100-metre butterfly. The following year at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Quirk placed fifth overall in the 200-metre butterfly, sixth overall in the 100-metre butterfly, and ninth overall in the 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle events.

At the 1978 Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton, Alberta, Quirk won three gold medals in the 100-metre butterfly, 4x100-metre freestyle relay, and the 4x100-metre medley relay, a silver medal in the 200-metre butterfly, and a bronze medal in the 100-metre freestyle. Later that same year, she won bronze medals for her performances in the 100-metre butterfly and 4x100-metre freestyle relay in the 1978 World Aquatics Championships. In her final international appearance at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she won a pair of silver medals as a member of the Canadian relay teams in the 4x100-metre freestyle and 4x100-metre medley events, together with two bronze medals in individual events, the 100-metre butterfly and 400-metre freestyle.

College career

Quirk attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for the Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition under coach Randy Reese in 1977 and 1978. During her two-year American college career, she received five All-American honors. She also attended and graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.

See also

• List of University of Alberta alumni
• List of University of Florida Olympians
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)

References

1. Profile at Sports Reference
2. ^ Florida Swimming & Diving 2011–12 Media Supplement Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 62, 65, 79 (2011). Retrieved April 11, 2012.

External links

• Official Results for Wendy Quirk

• 1959 births
• Living people
• Anglophone Quebec people
• Canadian female butterfly swimmers
• Canadian female freestyle swimmers
• Florida Gators women's swimmers
• Canadian expatriate swimmers in the United States
• Olympic swimmers for Canada
• Swimmers from Montreal
• Swimmers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
• Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games
• Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
• Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
• Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
• Pan American Games medalists in swimming
• Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
• 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
• Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games