Allison Higson

Who is Allison Higson?

Allison Higson now Allison Cavanaugh is a former international breaststroke and freestyle swimmer from Canada, who won the bronze medal with the Women's 4x100 Medley Relay Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, together with Andrea Nugent, Jane Kerr, and Lori Melien.

At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Higson won gold medals in the women's 100-metre and 200-metre breaststroke, both in Games Record time. At the 1986 world championships in Madrid, Higson captured a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke event.

She briefly held the women's 200-metre breaststroke world record in 1988. Higson also competed four years later, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she didn't win a medal.