Debbie Watson (water polo)
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Deborah Kathleen Watson (born 28 September 1965 in Sydney) is an Australian water polo player who captained the Australian team which won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
She participated at the 1984 FINA World Cup, and 1986 World Aquatics Championships.
Watson competed in the Gladiator Individual Sports Athletes Challenge in 1995.
In 2006, she became the first female waterpolo player to make it into the Australian Sports Hall of Fame.[1] In 2008, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[3]
See also
- List of Olympic champions in women's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo
- List of world champions in women's water polo
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
References
- ^ a b "Aussie in swimming Hall of Fame first". dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ The Compendium: Official Australian Olympic Statistics 1896–2002. Australian Olympic Committee. p. 205. ISBN 0-7022-3425-7.
- ^ Profile Archived 9 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine at International Swimming Hall of Fame
Also known as: Mr Badlan's misso
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Australian female water polo players
- Olympic water polo players of Australia
- Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Sportspeople from Sydney
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs
- Australian water polo biography stubs