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Meda McKenzie

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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}}{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2014}}Meda-Therese McKenzie {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (born 1963), generally known as Meda McKenzie, is a former New Zealand long-distance swimmer, who was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.^[1]

At fifteen she swam Cook Strait, and later (in 1978) swam it in the opposite direction. She also swam Foveaux Strait; and in England the English Channel and a double crossing of the Bristol Channel.

After retiring to raise two children, she returned after five years to swim across Lake Erie in Canada, and two firsts: the first double crossing of Cook Strait by a woman and a circumnavigation of Rarotonga.

In the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours, McKenzie was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for being the first New Zealand woman to swim the Cook Strait in both directions.^[2]

References

{{cite book |author= Ron Palenski|coauthors= |title= Profiles of Fame: The Stories of New Zealand’s Greatest Sports Achievers |year=2002 |publisher= New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame |page= 29 |quote= | url= |isbn= 0-473-08536-4 }}

1. ^http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/M/Meda-McKenzie.aspx Sports Hall of Fame website
2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=47551 |date=3 June 1978 |page=6271 |supp=y }}

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