Éva Pajor

Éva Pajor was a Hungarian swimmer who swam the 100 backstroke at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. In September 1955 she had swum lead-off for the Hungarian medley relay team that broke the world record. After the Olympics she sought asylum in Australia and by 1958 she was teaching children to swim in Sydney. By 1961 she teamed with Forbes Carlisle and together they produced the Carlisle Swimming Programme and Methods. Pajor went on to write Teach Yourself to Swim. She then opened and began running her own swim centers, first at Toongabbie and then in 1973 at Emu Plains.

In 1984 Pajor moved to the United States, eventually passing away there in Arizona, although she retained close ties to Australia. In Penrith, New South Wales, the swim centre was named in her honor, the Eva Bory Centre, and a sister facility was opened near it, the Nepean Aquatic Centre.