Helen Vanderburg

Helen Vanderburg
Personal information
Full name Helen Vanderburg
National team Canada
Born (1959-04-12) April 12, 1959
Calgary, Alberta
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Synchronised swimming
Club Calgary Aquabelles
Coach Debby Muir
Medal record
Synchronised swimming
Representing  Canada
World Aquatics Championships
1978 West BerlinSolo
1978 West BerlinDuet
Pan American Games
1979 San JuanSolo
1979 San JuanDuet
1979 San JuanTeam

Helen Vanderburg (born January 12, 1959) is a former Canadian synchronized swimmer and world champion.

Career

Vanderburg began synchronized swimming in 1969 at age eleven.[1] From 1971 to 1973, she was a member of junior national championship teams, and in 1973 she captured the junior Canadian solo and duet championships.[1] In 1977, Vanderburg joined the senior ranks, winning the solo and duet competition, with partner Michelle Calkins, at the Canadian Aquatic Championships, the first of three years that she won both events.[1] Vanderburg was the first non-American to win the World Championship at both the Solo and Duet events,[2] doing so at the 1978 World Aquatic Championships in West Berlin.[3] After Calkins' retirement in 1978 Vanderburg partnered with Kelly Kryczka, they went on to win gold in the duet at the 1979 Pan American Games,[4] Vanderburg also won gold in the solo event. Vanderburg retired from competition in 1979.

Titles

1979

1978

1977

  • Pan Pacific Games - gold in duet; silver in solo and team
  • Canadian Senior Champion - both solo and duet

1973

  • Canadian Jr. Champion - both solo and duet

Honors

Vanderburg was awarded the Velma Springstead Trophy in 1979 as Canada's outstanding female athlete of the year[5] Vanderburg was elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[1] She was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1980,[6] and in 1985, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Canada's Sports Hall of Fame | Stories". www.sportshall.ca. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Human Rights a Day - January 12, 1959 - Helen Vanderburg Shaw". www.hipcast.com. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  3. ↑ Bean, Dawn Pawson. Synchronized Swimming: An American History. McFarland. ISBN 9780786419487. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Kryczka, Kelly". ashfm.ca. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 "ISHOF.org | HELEN VANDERBERG (CAN)". ISHOF.org. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Vanderburg, Helen". ashfm.ca. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
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