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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Darcy Wallingford is a Canadian former swimmer of the 1980s.
A breaststroke specialist from Sudbury, Ontario, Wallingford featured at the 1986 World Championships in Madrid, where he placed 21st in the 100 m breaststroke. He swam heats for the gold medal-winning 4 × 100 m medley relay team at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and won three medals at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis.
Wallingford's father Ron was a noted distance runner and he has a son Keon who also competes in running events.
References
- "Support and swimming were hand in hand for Jennifer Campbell-Michel". www.sudburysports.com. May 11, 2019.
- "Darcy Wallingford". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "Paddlers claim Pan-Am gold for Canada". North Bay Nugget. August 10, 1987.
- "'I want to do well for my country'". North Bay Nugget. December 27, 2019.
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Categories:- Living people
- Canadian male breaststroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
- Sportspeople from Greater Sudbury