One of the great coaching careers in world swimming is over, with the passing of Jan Cameron at the age of 70.
The outspoken Australian spent two decades coaching in New Zealand.
Cameron was working as recently as last month's Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, with the Australian para-swimming team.
As a swimmer, she won a relay silver medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and two silvers and a bronze at the 1966 Kingston British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Cameron married her coach, Dan Talbot, and coached with him in Australia, Canada and the United States, until the split in 1989.
She later married Sky Television sport director Kevin Cameron and moved to New Zealad in 1991, coaching the powerful North Shore club, before taking on a role as national coach in 2001.
Cameron rose to Swimming New Zealand's performance and pathways general manager between 2008-11, but resigned after a Sport New Zealand report described the programme culture as "negative" and "dysfunctional".
In typical fashion, she described the report as "poorly written, poorly done rubbish".
Son Scott Talbot-Cameron represented New Zealand as a backstroke specialist at two Olympics and a Commonwealth Games, and also attended the 2012 London Olympics as national coach.
"There is no doubt that Jan has played a highly successful role in swimming in New Zealand as an incredibly successful coach at the North Shore Swimming Club and then as part of the Swimming New Zealand high performance team," said Swimming NZ chief executive Steve Johns.
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