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June Croft has competed for Great Britain June Croft has won 1 silver medal at the Olympic Games June Croft has won 1 bronze medal at the Olympic Games

June Croft is a swimmer who has competed for Great Britain. She competed at the 1980, 1984, and 1988 Summer Olympic Games.

Croft was the top British female swimmer in the freestyle events through the 1980s. She enjoyed a glorious success at her first Olympics in 1980 when she helped the British women secure the runner-up spot behind the East Germans in the 4x100 metres medley relay.

Four years later in Los Angeles, the absence of many swimmers from Eastern Bloc countries heightened Croft's chances for a medal in the distance-freestyle treble (200-400-800). In the 400 metres freestyle, she snared a bronze with a lifetime best of 4:11.49, lagging more than a second behind her teammate Sarah Hardcastle. Croft also entered the finals of four other races in her swimming schedule but she finished outside the medal contention in either of them.

Seoul 1988 turned to be lackluster for Croft as she failed to advance from the prelims in her distance-freestyle treble (100, 200, and 400) and missed the final by more than a second with the British women's team in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay. She retired from competitive swimming two years later.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Rank
1980 Women's 100m freestyle 9th
Women's 200m freestyle 6th
Women's 4x100m freestyle relay 4th
Women's 4x100m medley relay Silver
1984 Women's 100m freestyle 6th
Women's 200m freestyle 6th
Women's 400m freestyle Bronze
Women's 4x100m freestyle relay 6th
Women's 4x100m medley relay 4th
1988 Women's 100m freestyle 28th
Women's 200m freestyle 21st
Women's 400m freestyle 27th
Women's 4x100m freestyle relay 10th

1980[]

Discipline Round Time
100 metres freestyle Heats 57.88
Final Did not advance
200 metres freestyle Heats 2:03.95
Final 2:03.15
4x100 metres freestyle relay Heats 3:53.08
(57.30 split)
Final 3:51.71
(56.85 split)
4x100 metres medley relay Heats 4:16.29
(57.69 split)
Final 4:12.24
(55.92 split)

1984[]

Discipline Round Time
100 metres freestyle Heats 57.12
A Final 56.90
200 metres freestyle Heats 2:01.05
A Final 2:00.64
400 metres freestyle Heats 4:15.51
A Final 4:11.49 PR
4x100 metres freestyle relay Heats 3:51.47
(57.06 split)
Final 3:50.12
(57.49 split)
NR
4x100 metres medley relay Heats 4:16.83
(56.76 split)
Final 4:14.05
(56.08 split)

1988[]

Discipline Round Time
100 metres freestyle Heats 58.19
Final Did not advance
200 metres freestyle Heats 2:03.63
Final Did not advance
400 metres freestyle Heats 4:21.98
Final Did not advance
4x100 metres freestyle relay Heats 3:50.84
(57.70 split)
Final Did not advance
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