Gillian Pollock
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] References
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