Lyn Lillecrapp

Lynette Margaret "Lyn" Lillecrapp, OAM (née Michael; born 1945) Lillecrapp started her competitive swimming career in 1974, and competed at the 1976 Toronto, 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Summer Paralympics.

Swimming

Paralympic Games Lillecrapp won two silver medals at the 1976 Toronto Games in the Women's 25m Freestyle 2 and Women's 3x25m Individual Medley 2 events. She won three bronze medals at the 1988 Seoul Games in the Women's 50m Freestyle 2, Women's 50m Backstroke 2, and Women's 25m Butterfly 2 events, and a silver medal in the Women's 50m Breaststroke 2 event.

State Swimming

In the Swimming SA State Sprints in March 2009, she won multiple silver medals in the 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle events. She competed in the Multi-Class 100m butterfly at the Victorian Open Championships on 11 January 2013, racing the best young swimmers with disability in the state and visiting Paralympian Kayla Clarke. She came last in a straight final, but beat her entry time by 14 seconds. At the South Australian State short course championships on 17 July 2013, Lillecrapp broke her own individual medley S5 record by 2.5 seconds, and in 2014 again broke her own Australian short course multi-class record in the 100m butterfly. She currently holds SA State short course multi-class records in the 100m freestyle, 50 & 100m backstroke, 50 & 100m butterfly and 100m individual medley, and SA State long course records in 50m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke, and 50m butterfly. She also competed in the Australian Masters Games in 2011 in Adelaide and Geelong in 2013, winning gold and silver medals at each Games.

She is currently a coach at the STARplex Swim Club in Gawler, South Australia.

Recognition In 1992, Lillecrapp received the Medal of the Order of Australia "For service to swimming, particularly as a gold medallist at the Stoke Mandeville World Wheelchair Championships". In 2009, she was inducted into the Swimming SA Hall of Fame.