Jennifer Frances Newstead MBE (born 1966 or 1967)[1] is a former paralympic swimmer from New Zealand who competed mainly in category S5 events.

[2] At the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, USA she won the 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle and also made up for her silver in the last games by breaking the world record on her way to a gold medal in the 100m breaststroke.

She also won a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle, having broken the world record in the heat only to see Jeanette Esling of Great Britain swim even faster.

[2] Newstead featured in the New Zealand television documentaries 12 Days Of Glory - The Forgotten Athletes (1993)[5] and Triumph of the Human Spirit (1996),[6] narrated by Paul Holmes.

At the Dunedin Fringe Festival in March 2013 an aerial troupe including Newstead wowed the crowd with a spectacular silk routine, suspended from a crane nine metres above the Octagon.