Betty Moore (diver)
New Zealand diver (born 1929)
Clarice Lora Betty Main (née Moore; born January 1929) is a former New Zealand diver, who represented her country at the 1950 British Empire Games.
Early life and education
Born in January 1929, Main was educated at St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin where she was the senior swimming and diving champion in 1945 and 1946. She was also active in surf lifesaving. She went on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1955.
Swimming and diving
Moore began swimming with the Dunedin Swimming Club as a junior in the 1930s. In 1943, she won the South Island junior girls' diving title, and in 1945 she was runner-up in the national intermediate girls' diving championship. Moore won the New Zealand national women's diving championship in 1949, and then competed for New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland. She finished eighth in the women's 3 m springboard. Subsequently, Moore won the New Zealand women's tower diving championship in 1952 and 1953.
Later life
Moore was married to Brian William Main; he died in 2009.
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