- Nancy McCredie
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Nancy McCredie Personal information Born February 5, 1945 Medal recordWomen's Athletics Competitor for 
CanadaPan American Games Gold 1963 São Paulo Shot Put Gold 1963 São Paulo Discus Throw Gold 1967 Winnipeg Shot Put Nancy McCredie (born February 5, 1945 in Belleville, Ontario) is a retired female track and field athlete from Canada, who represented her native country in two events (discus and shot put) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She claimed two gold medals at the 1963 Pan American Games in Brazil, followed by a gold once again four years later in the women's shot put event in Winnipeg, Canada. McCredie was rewarded the Velma Springstead Trophy in 1963.
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Pan American Champions in Women's Shot Put 1951: Ingeborg Mello (ARG) • 1955: not held • 1959: Earlene Brown (USA) • 1963 – 1967: Nancy McCredie (CAN) • 1971: Lynn Graham (USA) • 1975 – 1983: María Elena Sarría (CUB) • 1987: Ramona Pagel (USA) • 1991: Belsy Laza (CUB) • 1995 – 1999: Connie Price-Smith (USA) • 2003: Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB) • 2007 – 2011: Misleydis González (CUB)
Pan American Champions in Women's Discus Throw 1951: Ingeborg Mello (ARG) • 1955: Ingeborg Pfüller (ARG) • 1959: Earlene Brown (USA) • 1963: Nancy McCredie (CAN) • 1967: Carol Moseke (USA) • 1971 – 1979: Carmen Romero (CUB) • 1983: María Betancourt (CUB) • 1987: Maritza Martén (CUB) • 1991: Bárbara Hechavarría (CUB) • 1995: Maritza Martén (CUB) • 1999 – 2003: Aretha Hill (USA) • 2007 – 2011: Yarelys Barrios (CUB)
Categories:- 1945 births
- Living people
- Canadian discus throwers
- Canadian shot putters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Olympic track and field athletes of Canada
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- Canadian sportswomen
- Canadian track and field athletics biography stubs
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