Jan Cameron (coach)

Janice Gabrielle Cameron (née Murphy, formerly Talbot), OAM (20 February 1947 – 30 April 2018) was an Australian competition swimmer and coach.

Murphy won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo; she teamed with Fraser, Lyn Bell and Robyn Thorn to finish 3.1 seconds behind the United States.

[3][5] While in Canada, she completed an Honours degree in Physical Education and received a Masters in Coaching Sciences from Lakehead University.

[14][15] She was the Paralympic swimming coach at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland from April 2014 to February 2017, having been appointed to that role in an interim capacity in May 2013.

[18] In 2015, she became the third Australian woman to gain her Platinum Coaching Licence following on from her swimmers' winning ten medals at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

[3] Her marriage to Talbot ended in 1989, and she married Kevin Cameron, the director of sport production at Sky Television in New Zealand, in 1990.

[17][20] Cameron posthumously received the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours "for service to swimming, particularly as a coach.