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Australian and Olympic sprinter (Athletics Australia Hall of Fame)

Won Bronze Medal for 200 metres Tokyo Olympics 1964

Olympic representative /member of the 4×200 Men’s Freestyle Relay Stockholm Olympic Games 1912, won Gold medal came 1st in world record time; event not won again by Australia until 1956

Competed in the long jump at the 1948 London Olympics, placing seventh. She was seventh in the event at the 1950 British Empire Games. Canty was Australian champion in long jump in 1948 and 1950.

Won Olympic gold/siver medals in swimming; bronze medal in boxing.

Manager of the 1928 Summer Olympics team, Amsterdam

1912 Summer Olympic Games, Stockholm, swam a heat of the 100 metres free-style in 1 min19.8 sec to break the world record. Won gold for the 100 metres, the only individual event for women. Between 1912 and 1918 broke twelve world records and retired from competitive swimming, 1921

Won Silver Medal 4x100m relay Olympic Games London 1948 with Fortians Betty McKinnon, Joyce King, Shirley Strickland

Represented Australia in basketball at Melbourne Olympic Games 1956

Won Gold medal 1912 Stockholm Olympics representing Australasia in swimming the 4x 200 relay, won bronze medal in the 400m and 1500m freestyle.

Champion swimmer won gold medals in 100m freestyle and 4x200m relay at 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Held 100m world record for 5 years

Selected for 1960 Olympics but had to withdraw because of illness

Inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame 1973

First Australian to break 60 seconds for the 100 yards

Won 2 gold medals at the modern Olympic games Paris 1900 for the 200m freestyle race and the 200m obstacle course.

Betty was one of only 5 female athletes at the 1948 London Olympic Games. In the 4 X 100 metres relay her team including Fortian June Maston, finished 2^nd.  This was Australia’s first relay medal in Olympic athletics.

She also competed in the 100 & 200 metre races in London.

Member of Australian Olympic Water Polo team Munich Olympics 1972

Melbourne Olympic Games 1956  3rd in the 100 metres, 3rd in the 200 metres; 1st in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 100 yards, 1st in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 220 yards, 2nd in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 110 yards Relay (with [Betty Cuthbert

AM 1979 for service to athletics; AO 1999 for service to Athletics/Sports Administration particularly through Australian Track, Field Coaches Association and the Community

Long distance athlete; represented Australia in 3,000m steeplechase in 1956 Melbourne Olympics

Australian Representative for rowing, Olympic Games Rome, 1960 (Double Sculls) OAM 1990 for service to Rowing

2000 Sydney Olympic games Australian team Gold Medal for Women’s Water Polo.    OAM 2001 for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

2000 Sydney Olympic games Australian team Gold Medal for Women’s Water Polo. OAM 2001 for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.