Janet Nutter

Who is Janet Nutter?

Janet Ruth Nutter 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, and two medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

She was one of four Canadian athletes chosen by director Paul Cowan to appear in the National Film Board of Canada documentary Going the Distance, about the 1978 Games in Edmonton.

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