Haydn Rigby
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) |
| Born | 18 December 1936 Southport, Merseyside, England |
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke |
| Club | Southport |
Haydn Rigby (born 18 December 1936) is an English former backstroke swimmer who competed at two Olympic Games.
Biography
[edit]Born in Southport, Merseyside, England, Rigby represented Great Britain at two consecutive Summer Olympics in 1956 and 1960.[1][2]
He represented England[3] at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada and the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.[4][5]
Rigby started Wigan Wasps Swimming Team and coached at the Wigan International Swimming Pool.[6] Hayden taught many of the national champions and international swimmers from the 1990s how to swim and is still very much involved in the sport of swimming. He continues to coach youngsters at Wigan Swimming Club Wasps and also coaches the younger groups training in the Wigan best swimming squad.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Haydn Rigby at Sports Reference
- ^ "Mersey Olympians: Haydn Rigby". 8 June 2012.
- ^ "Ardrop pair for Turin". Daily Herald. 5 July 1954. Retrieved 14 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ "1954 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "BBC - Domesday Reloaded: WIGAN WASPS". Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
External links
[edit]- Sports Profile
- Wigan Swimming Club Archived 14 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1936 births
- Living people
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Wigan
- Swimmers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Southport
- English male backstroke swimmers
- British male backstroke swimmers
- Commonwealth Games swimmers for England
- English swimming biography stubs