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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Clarice Lora Betty Moore |
| Born | January 1929 (age 95) |
| Occupation | Anaesthetist |
| Spouse | Brian William Main (died 2009) |
| Sport | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sport | Diving |
| Achievements and titles | |
| National finals | Diving champion (1949) Tower diving champion (1952, 1953) |
Clarice Lora Betty Main (née Moore; born January 1929) is a former New Zealand diver, who represented her country at the 1950 British Empire Games.
Born in January 1929,[1] Main was educated at St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin where she was the senior swimming and diving champion in 1945 and 1946.[2][3][4] She was also active in surf lifesaving.[5] She went on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1955.[6]
Moore began swimming with the Dunedin Swimming Club as a junior in the 1930s.[7] In 1943, she won the South Island junior girls' diving title,[8] and in 1945 she was runner-up in the national intermediate girls' diving championship.[5] Moore won the New Zealand national women's diving championship in 1949,[9] and then competed for New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland.[10] She finished eighth in the women's 3 m springboard.[11] Subsequently, Moore won the New Zealand women's tower diving championship in 1952 and 1953.[9]
Moore was married to Brian William Main; he died in 2009.[12] Betty Main worked as an anaesthetist at Dunedin Hospital, and lives in retirement in Wānaka.[12]