Janet Nutter

Janet Ruth Nutter (born April 2, 1953 in Montréal, Quebec) is a retired diver from Canada, who was supposed to represent her native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but failed to do so after the boycott. A resident of Thornhill, Ontario she twice won a medal at the Pan American Games (1975 and 1979).

Winnipeg’s Pan-Am Pool was the springboard which somersaulted Nutter into prominence on the international diving scene. As a youngster she stood out from her competitive cohorts. Religiously she was casting her tall, slender and flexible body from the lofty 10-metre tower and 3 metre springboard with championship form. It was the precision with which Nutter executed difficult dives that made her Manitoba champion from 1969 to 1975.

In that interval she captured a gold medal in the 3 metre springboard, a silver in the 10-metre tower and a bronze medal in the 1 metre springboard in the 1973 Canada Games in Burnaby, British Columbia That same academic year, 1973-74, she was named University of Manitoba Female Athlete of the Year.

A member of the national team since 1971, she plunged from the 10-metre tower and surfaced in the Mexico City pool with a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games. Focusing now on the international scene, Nutter flashed her brilliance in the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta. She captured a gold medal in the 3 metre springboard and bronze medal in the 10-metre tower. This earned her a spot on the Canadian team, which competed the same year in the 1978 World Aquatic Games in Berlin, West Germany.

In 1979, Nutter was a bronze medalist in the 3 metre springboard in the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico and a silver medalist in the same event in the 1979 FINA World Cup in Woodlands, Texas.

Inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1986.

References

* [http://72.232.38.190/EN/athletes/query/details2.php?id=40885 Canadian Olympic Committee]

External links

* [http://www.halloffame.mb.ca/honoured/1986/jNutter.htm Janet Nutter’s biography] at [http://www.halloffame.mb.ca/ Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum]