Helen Vanderburg

Synchronized Swimming Athlete - Inducted 1980

Helen Vanderburg won Junior Canadian Championship gold medals from 1971 to 1973 with the Calgary Aquabelle club.  She won the gold medal for the National Junior Aggregate, Solo, and Figures in 1973.  Helen won senior crowns in figures and duet from 1977 to 1979, and solo in 1979.  She was a gold medallist at the 1977 Pan Pacific Games for duet, in 1979 for solo, and at the 1979 Pan American Games for solo and duet.  Helen won four World Titles for solo and duet at both the 1978 World Aquatic Championships and 1979 Federation Internationale De Natation Amateur Cup.