Jan Murphy

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexFemale
Full nameJanice Gabrielle “Jan“•Murphy (-Talbot-, -Cameron)
Used nameJan•Murphy
Born20 February 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales (AUS)
Died30 April 2018 in ?, Queensland (AUS)
Affiliations?, New South Wales, (AUS)
NOC Australia
Medals OG
Gold 0
Silver 1
Bronze 0
Total 1

Biography

Jan Murphy swam for Australia at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay. At the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, she earned three medals, with silvers in the 440 yd IM and the 4x110 yd free relay, adding a bronze in the 110 yd freestyle.

A student at Rosebank College, after the Tokyo Olympics Murphy earned a scholarship to study at Wollongong Teacher’s College (now the University of Wollongong). While there she started coaching in 1968 as an assistant at a small swimming club in Port Kembla, and this led to a career in coaching. She married Don Talbot in 1973, a well-known swim coach, and worked as an assistant coach for him in Canada, the United States and Australia. The marriage ended in 1989 but she later married Kevin Cameron, the director of sport production at Sky Television in New Zealand, in 1990.

With Cameron she settled in New Zealand, along with her son, Scott Talbot, whom she coached and who would swim at two Olympics, 2000 and 2004. She was appointed New Zealand’s national coach in 2001 and was in charge of Swimming New Zealand’s high performance development. She resigned that position in 2011 and formed Jan Cameron Performance Compass, a sports consulting company. Returning to Australia in 2014, she became a paralympic swim coach while working at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1964 Summer Olympics Swimming (Aquatics) AUS Jan Murphy
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women (Olympic) Australia 2 Silver
400 metres Individual Medley, Women (Olympic) DNS

Olympic family relations

Special Notes

Errata

Date of birth is uncertain. Commonwealth Games data also has a DOB of 19 October 1942, but multiple sources confirm the DOB listed above.