Ngaire Lane

Ngaire Galloway JP (née Lane, 31 October 1925 – 9 July 2021) was a New Zealand swimmer, who represented her country at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

[1] Lane travelled to London in 1948 as the only swimmer and only woman on the New Zealand team at the Olympic Games.

[1][5] Before the games, she swam in the 1948 ASA British Championships 100 yards backstroke and won the event.

[1] On 21 May 1949, Lane married Kenneth Miller Galloway—a medical student at the University of Otago—in Thames,[8][9] and the couple moved to Nelson the following year.

[18] in 1996, the Nelson City Council named a pedestrian walkway and street, adjacent to the city's Riverside Pool, Ngaire Lane and Ngaire Place, respectively, in Galloway's honour.