Gillian Pollock

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Gillian Pollock
Personal information
Full nameGillian Pollock
NationalityNew Zealand
Born1984 (age 41–42)
Sport
SportSwimming
ClassificationsS8, SB8, SM8
ClubGreendale Swim Club
CoachNoel Hardgrave-Booth
Medal record
Women's para swimming
Representing  New Zealand
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 200 m individual medley – SM8

Gillian Pollock (born 1984) is a former paralympic swimmer from New Zealand. She competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympic winning a silver medal.

Pollock was classified S8 for freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, SB8 for breaststroke and SM8 for medley.[1]

At the IPC Swimming World Championships Christchurch 1998, Pollock gained three 4th-place finishes in the 200m metre individual medley, 100 metre backstroke and 100 metre butterfly.[2]

Pollock was part of the New Zealand team that made the short trip to Sydney for the 2000 Summer Paralympics.[3] There she won a silver medal in the 200 metre individual medley in a time of 3:04.12, behind Hungary's Dóra Pásztory who set a new games record. Gillian placed in the 100 metre backstroke finishing 5th and 400 metre freestyle finishing 6th . She also competed the 100 metre breaststroke and 100 metre butterfly although missed out on the finals.[2]

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