{{Short description|Australian swimmer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Judy Playfair | image = <!-- Only free-content images are allowed for depiting living people -- see WP:NONFREE. --> | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | alt = | caption = | fullname = Judith White Playfair | nicknames = Judy | national_team = Australia | strokes = Breaststroke | club = Bondi Ladies SC | coach = | collegeteam = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|9|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Sydney | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{convert|1.62|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|57|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's swimming}} {{MedalCountry | Australia}} {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver | 1968 Mexico City | 4×100 m medley}} }} '''Judith White Playfair''' (born 14 September 1953) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
==Swimming career== Playfair was born in Rose Bay, Sydney. She learned to swim at the age of four, at Watson's Bay Baths, and continued to train there two to three times a day from an early age. From 1965 to 1969 she was the New South Wales Junior and then senior breaststroke champion and record holder. She was the Australian 100m and 200m breaststroke champion from 1967 to 1969, and held both Australian and Commonwealth records.<ref name="Profile"/>
In 1968, still aged 14, she was selected to represent Australia at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Playfair combined with Janet Steinbeck, Lyn McClements and Lynne Watson to register a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay, trailing the Americans home by 1.7 seconds. She was eliminated in the semi-finals and heats of the 100-metre and 200-metre backstroke events respectively. She was away from home and school for three months and had her 15th birthday while overseas.<ref name="Profile">[http://kogu.kambala.nsw.edu.au/nsw/kambala/uploads/files/Judy%20Playfair%20-%20final.pdf Playfair Kambala profile]</ref>
She swam at the Australian National titles with an injury and was not selected for the 1970 Commonwealth Games squad at which point she retired from competitive swimming.<ref name="Profile"/>
==Professional career== Playfair studied arts and teaching at the University of Sydney. She taught Physical Education and HSIE at a number of comprehensive public schools in Sydney and in 2003 became the deputy principal of Canterbury Girls High School. She retired from teaching in 2009 and then worked at the University of Sydney.<ref name="Profile"/>
==Personal== Playfair is the granddaughter of the Sydney businessman, politician and soldier Thomas Alfred John Playfair. She attended Kambala School for her entire schooling.<ref name="Profile"/> She is the aunt of New South Wales King's Cup winning and Australian representative rower Hamish Playfair.
==See also== * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book | last = Andrews | first = Malcolm | year = 2000 | title = Australia at the Olympic Games|publisher=ABC Books |isbn=0-7333-0884-8 |location=Sydney, New South Wales |page=352}}
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