- Mary Stewart (swimmer)
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Mary Stewart Personal information Full name Mary Beth Pauline Stewart Nationality Canada
Born December 8, 1945
Vancouver, British ColumbiaHeight 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle Medal recordCommonwealth Games Gold 1962 Perth 100 m Butterfly Mary Stewart-McIlwaine (born December 8, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired freestyle swimmer from Canada, who twice broke the world record in the women's 100m butterfly in the early 1960s. She represented her native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1960 in Rome, Italy.
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Records Preceded by
Janice Andrew
Women's 100 metre butterfly
world record holder (long course)
August 12, 1961 – August 12, 1961Succeeded by
Susan Doerr
Preceded by
Susan Doerr
Women's 100 metre butterfly
world record holder (long course)
July 28, 1962 – August 16, 1963Succeeded by
Kathy Ellis
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 100 m Butterfly 1958 – 1966: 110 Yards Butterfly • 1970 – 2010: 100 Metres Butterfly 1958: Beverley Bainbridge (AUS) • 1962: Mary Stewart (CAN) • 1966: Elaine Tanner (CAN) • 1970: Diane Lansley (ENG) • 1974: Patti Stenhouse (CAN) • 1978: Wendy Quirk (CAN) • 1982: Lisa Curry (AUS) • 1986: Caroline Cooper (ENG) • 1990: Lisa Curry-Kenny (AUS) • 1994: Petria Thomas (AUS) • 1998: Petria Thomas (AUS) • 2002: Petria Thomas (AUS) • 2006: Jessicah Schipper (AUS) • 2010: Alicia Coutts (AUS)
Categories:- 1945 births
- Living people
- Canadian swimmers
- Freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- People from Vancouver
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from British Columbia
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian sportswomen
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Canadian swimming biography stubs
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