Barbara Kendall
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| Birth name | Barbara Anne Kendall | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 August 1967 (age 56) Papakura, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Relative | Bruce Kendall (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Barbara Anne Kendall
Biography
Kendall was born in
During 1998, she had founded
Kendall was the Oceania athletes' representative on the International Olympic Committee from 2005 to 2008, having replaced Susie O'Neill who resigned in 2005 (Kendall was the athlete from the same continent who had received the next highest number of votes for the commission), and was on the New Zealand Olympic Committee Athletes Commission[5] until 2008.[6] In July 2011, she was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee and the IOC Athletes' Commission and sat on the Women and Sport Commission and Sport and the Environment Commission until August 2016.
Kendall's brother Bruce is also an Olympic Gold medallist. They are the first brother and sister to have achieved this feat for New Zealand.[7]
Kendall officially retired from competitive board sailing in May 2010.[8]
Honours and awards
In 1990, Kendall was awarded the
See also
References
Citations
- ^ ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
- ^ "Barbara Kendall". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Barbara Kendall". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ Kendall Barbara makes GHS Mural (Retrieved 27 March 2015)
- ^ International Olympic Committee - News
- ^ IOC Athletes' Commission election results released Archived 24 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ New Zealand Olympic Academy: Olympic Education - Barbara Kendall Archived 20 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Barbara Kendall calls time on career
- ^ "No. 53154". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1992. p. 30.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
Bibliography
- Butcher, Margot (2010). Golden Girls: Celebrating New Zealand's six female Olympic gold medallists. Auckland: HarperSports/HarperCollins. pp. 38–59. ISBN 978-1-86950-892-0.
External links
- Barbara Kendall at World Sailing
- Barbara Kendall at Olympics.com
- Barbara Kendall at Olympedia
- Barbara Kendall at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Barbara Kendall at the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
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