5/8/2023 0 Comments Upper volta olympic swimmerMichelle Ford beat the powerful East German women to win the 800m freestyle at Moscow 1980. Brad Cooper won the men’s 400m freestyle after the original winner, Rick DeMont of the United States, was disqualified for taking a prohibited substance in his asthma medication. Other winners in Munich were Gail Neall in the women’s 400m individual medley and Beverley Whitfield in the women’s 200m breaststroke. Gould won the 200m and 400m freestyle and the 200m individual medley, took silver in the 800m and bronze in the 100m freestyle. Lyn McClements was also a winner, in the women’s 100m butterfly.Īt Munich 1972, Shane Gould dominated with medals in five individual events. The rarefied atmosphere in Mexico City 1968 didn’t stop Michael Wenden taking on and beating the powerful Americans in the 100m and 200m freestyle. John Devitt won the 100m freestyle and Jon Konrads the 1500m freestyle.ĭawn Fraser won the women's 100m freestyle for an unprecedented third time at Tokyo 1964 and Ian O’Brien (200m breaststroke), Kevin Berry (200m butterfly) and Robert Windle (1500m freestyle) also returned with gold medals. At Rome 1960 Fraser, Theile and Rose, in the 400m, repeated their Melbourne victories. David Theile won the first of his two 100m backstroke gold medals. In the women’s events, Dawn Fraser won the 100m, Lorraine Crapp won the 400m and the team of Fraser, Crapp, Faith Leech and Sandra Morgan won the 4 x 100m relay. The men’s winners were Jon Henricks (100m), Murray Rose (400m and 1500m) and the men’s 4 x 200m relay team of Henricks, Rose, John Devitt and Kevin O’Halloran. Melbourne 1956 saw Australia become the world’s top swimming nation by winning eight gold medals, including every freestyle event. The next gold medal came twenty years later in Helsinki when John Davies won the 200m breaststroke. At Paris 1924 Andrew “Boy” Charlton shattered the world record on the way to becoming the first of a long line of Australians to win the 1500m freestyle.Įight years later, Clare Dennis became the first Australian to win a medal in a non-freestyle swimming event when she won the women’s 200m breaststroke at Los Angeles 1932.
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