Haydn Rigby

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Haydn Rigby
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Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (1936-12-18) 18 December 1936 (age 88)
Southport, Merseyside, England
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
ClubSouthport

Haydn Rigby (born 18 December 1936) is an English former backstroke swimmer who competed at two Olympic Games.

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Biography

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

  1. ↑ Haydn Rigby at Sports Reference
  2. ↑ "Mersey Olympians: Haydn Rigby". 8 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ardrop pair for Turin" . Daily Herald. 5 July 1954. Retrieved 14 September 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "1954 Athletes". Team England.
  6. ↑ "BBC - Domesday Reloaded: WIGAN WASPS". Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
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