Janet Nutter

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Medal record
Competitor for Canada
Women's Diving
Pan American Games
Gold	Mexico City 1975	Platform
Bronze	San Juan 1979	Springboard

Janet Ruth Nutter (born April 2, 1953 in Montréal, Quebec) is a retired diver from Canada, who was supposed to represent her native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but failed to do so after the boycott. A resident of Thornhill, Ontario she twice won a medal at the Pan American Games (1975 and 1979).

Winnipeg’s Pan-Am Pool was the springboard which somersaulted Nutter into prominence on the international diving scene. As a youngster she stood out from her competitive cohorts. Religiously she was casting her tall, slender and flexible body from the lofty 10-metre tower and 3 metre springboard with championship form. It was the precision with which Nutter executed difficult dives that made her Manitoba champion from 1969 to 1975.

In that interval she captured a gold medal in the 3 metre springboard, a silver in the 10-metre tower and a bronze medal in the 1 metre springboard in the 1973 Canada Games in Burnaby, British Columbia That same academic year, 1973-74, she was named University of Manitoba Female Athlete of the Year.

A member of the national team since 1971, she plunged from the 10-metre tower and surfaced in the Mexico City pool with a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games. Focusing now on the international scene, Nutter flashed her brilliance in the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta. She captured a gold medal in the 3 metre springboard and bronze medal in the 10-metre tower. This earned her a spot on the Canadian team, which competed the same year in the 1978 World Aquatic Games in Berlin, West Germany.

In 1979, Nutter was a bronze medalist in the 3 metre springboard in the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico and a silver medalist in the same event in the 1979 FINA World Cup in Woodlands, Texas.

Inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1986.