Penny McCarthy

{{short description|New Zealand swimmer}}

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|sport = Swimming

|country = New Zealand

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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalSilver| 1978 Edmonton | 100 m butterfly}}

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Penny McCarthy is a New Zealand swimmer. She won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres butterfly representing her country at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, recording a time of 1:02.27, and finishing 0.35 s behind the winner, Wendy Quirk from Canada.{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/penny-mccarthy |title=Penny McCarthy |website=Olympic.org.nz |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee}}{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3039/event/1602 |title=Swimming 100m butterfly – women Edmonton 1978 |publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation |year=2018 |access-date=16 January 2022}} She also competed in the 200 metres butterfly at those games, but finished ninth in the heats and did not progress further.{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3039/event/1606 |title=Swimming 200m butterfly – women Edmonton 1978 |publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation |year=2018 |access-date=16 January 2022}}

At the 1978 World Swimming Championships in West Berlin, McCarthy finished 12th in the women's 100 metres butterfly.{{cite web |url=http://www.todor66.com/swimming/World/1978/Women_100m_Butterfly.html |title=Women 100m butterfly swimming world championship 1978 West Berlin |date=1 August 2011 |access-date=16 January 2022}} The following year, at the 1978 Australian national swimming championships in Perth, she was second in the women's 100 metres butterfly, behind fellow New Zealander Rebecca Perrott.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136982192 |title=Record swim lost by timing failure |date=25 February 1979 |work=Canberra Times |page=3 |access-date=16 January 2022}}