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- ↑ "Profile of Lynette Sadleir". New Zealand Olympic Committee website. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ↑ "Professor Lynette Sadleir, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health". University of Otago. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
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