Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, USSR

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. Although Australia did not officially participate in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics

American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan...

, athletes were encouraged to boycott by the government, and Australia competed under the Olympic Flag. 120 competitors, 92 men and 28 women, took part in 92 events in 17 sports.

Ultimately, the Australian Olympic Committee decided in a split vote to attend the Games, but some sport federations and athletes were pressured into boycotting the Games of their own volition. Many chose to stay at home, including such likely medallists as champion swimmer Tracey Wickham

Tracey Wickham

Tracey Lee Wickham MBE OAM is an Australian former middle distance world champion swimmer. Despite her success in the pool, Wickham has battled financial hardship and personal tragedy throughout her life....

, sprinter Raelene Boyle

Raelene Boyle

Raelene Ann Boyle, AM, MBE, , Australian athlete, represented Australia at three Olympic Games as a sprinter, winning three silver medals. In 1998, Boyle was named one of 100 National Living Treasures by the National Trust of Australia.-Early life:Boyle was born on 24 June 1951, the daughter of...

 and the Men's Field Hockey Team. A team of 127 athletes attended the Games. Months earlier, a team of 204 athletes had been approved before boycott talks began.

In protest of the Afghanistan invasion, Australia did not march behind the national flag in the Opening Ceremony. Instead, flag bearers Denise Boyd (athletics) and Max Metzker (swimming), Australia’s first joint-flag carriers, carried the Olympic flag. Thanks to the Russian alphabet

Russian alphabet

The Russian alphabet is a form of the Cyrillic script, developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

, it was first after Greece (which has traditionally, since 1928

1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...

, led the Parade of Nations, as the birthplace of the Olympics) in the Parade of Nations.

Gold

• Michelle Ford
  Michelle Ford
  Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 800 metres Freestyle
• Neil Brooks
  Neil Brooks
  Neil Brooks is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer best known for winning the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. Brooks was as much known for his swimming achievements as he was for disciplinary incidents...
  
  , Mark Kerry
  Mark Kerry
  Marcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  , Peter Evans
  Peter Evans (swimmer)
  Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
   and Mark Tonelli
  Mark Tonelli
  Mark Lyndon Tonelli is a former Australian backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a makeshift butterfly swimmer in the self-named Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay, known as the Mean Machine!

Silver

• Rick Mitchell
  Rick Mitchell
  Richard Charles Mitchell is an Australian triple Olympian who competed in the 400 metres.Commencing in athletics at the relatively late age of seventeen, he joined the Waverley Athletics Club in Melbourne in 1972 with the aim of improving his fitness before the following rugby union season...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 400 metres
• John Sumegi
  John Sumegi
  John Sumegi is an Australian flatwater canoer who competed from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-1 500 m event at Moscow in 1980....
  
   — Canoeing, Men's K1 500 metres Kayak Singles

Bronze

• Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 200 metres Freestyle
• Max Metzker
  Max Metzker
  Maxwell Raymond Metzker was an Australian long distance freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 1.500 metres Freestyle
• Mark Kerry
  Mark Kerry
  Marcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 200 metres Backstroke
• Peter Evans
  Peter Evans (swimmer)
  Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 100 metres Backstroke
• Michelle Ford
  Michelle Ford
  Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 200 metres Butterfly

Archery

In the third Olympic archery competition that Australia contested, the nation sent two women and one man. Carole Toy, a veteran of the 1972 Games

1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

, repeated her 15th place performance despite shooting 20 points lower.


Women's Individual Competition:

• Terene Donovan — 2343 points (→ 9th place)
• Carole Toy — 2285 points (→ 15th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Scott Dumbrell — 2271 points (→ 26th place)

Athletics

Men's 10,000 metres

• Bill Scott
• Heat — 28:58.8
• Final — 28:15.1 (→ 9th place)

• Stephen Austin
• Heat — 29:45.2 (→ did not advance)

• Gerard Barrett
• Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• Gary Honey
  Gary Honey
  Gary Ronald Honey is a retired long jumper from Australia. He won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics with a jump of 8.24 metres....
  
  
• Qualification — 7.44 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

• Ian Campbell
  Ian Campbell (athlete)
  Ian Bernard Campbell is a retired long and triple jumper from Australia, who represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There he ended up in fifth place in the men's triple jump event, with a leap of 16.72 metres. In the final, Ian Campbell, was robbed of a certain...
  
  
• Qualification — 17.02 m
• Final — 16.72 m (→ 5th place)

• Ken Lorraway
  Ken Lorraway
  Kenneth John Lorraway was a male triple jumper from Australia, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1980 and 1984....
  
  
• Qualification — 16.80 m
• Final — 16.44 m (→ 8th place)

Men's Marathon

• Robert de Castella
  Robert de Castella
  Robert Francois de Castella, MBE is an Australian former world champion marathon runner. He is widely known as "Deek" or "Deeks" to the Australian public, and "Tree" to his competitors due to his thick legs and inner calm...
  
  
• Final — 2:14:31 (→ 10th place)

• Christopher Wardlaw
• Final — 2:20:42 (→ 28th place)

• Gerard Barrett
• Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Peter Farmer
• Qualifying Round — 69.16m (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

• David Smith
  David Smith (race walker)
  David Gregory Smith is a retired male race walker from Australia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 . His best Olympic result was finishing in tenth place in the men's 20 km race at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Achievements:-References:**...
  
  
• Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Willi Sawall
  Willi Sawall
  Willi Alfred Sawall is a retired male race walker from Australia. He set his personal best in the men's 50 km in 1980. Sawall is a seven-time national champion in race walking.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
  
• Final — 4:08:25 (→ 8th place)

• David Smith
  David Smith (race walker)
  David Gregory Smith is a retired male race walker from Australia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 . His best Olympic result was finishing in tenth place in the men's 20 km race at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Achievements:-References:**...
  
  
• Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon

• Peter Hadfield
  Peter Hadfield
  Peter Robert Hadfield is a former Australian Olympic athlete who competed in the decathlon.Hadfield won a total of nine Australian Championships in Athletics between 1976 and 1985...
  
  
• Final — 7709 points (→ 13th place)

Women's 100 metres

• Denise Boyd
  Denise Boyd
  Denise Boyd is a former Australian Olympic sprinter, who reached two Olympic finals in the 200 metres sprint...
  
  
• Heat — 11.56
• Quarterfinals — 11.35
• Semifinals — 11.44 (→ did not advance)

• Debbie Wells
• Heat — 11.72
• Quarterfinals — 11.66 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Hurdles

• Penelope Gillies
• Heat — 13.68 (→ did not advance)

Women's Discus Throw

• Gael Mulhall
  Gael Martin
  Gael Patricia Mulhall-Martin is a former Australian athlete, daughter of footballer Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club.She competed in the shot put and in the discus throw....
  
  
• Qualification — 54.90 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

• Gael Mulhall
  Gael Martin
  Gael Patricia Mulhall-Martin is a former Australian athlete, daughter of footballer Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club.She competed in the shot put and in the discus throw....
  
  
• Final — 18.00 m (→ 12th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Pamela Matthews
• Qualification — 55.72 m (→ did not advance)

• Petra Rivers
  Petra Rivers
  Petra Rivers is a retired Australian athlete who specialised in the javelin throw.At the 1970 National Championships, she won both the Open and Junior javelin titles. Although still only seventeen, it was her fourth national junior javelin championship win...
  
  
• Qualification — 51.08 m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Christine Stanton
  Christine Stanton
  Christine Frances Stanton is a retired high jumper from Australia, who was born as Christine Annison. She set her personal best on 1985-01-26, jumping 1.96 metres at a meet in Adelaide, South Australia...
  
  
• Qualification — 1.88m
• Final — 1.91m (→ 6th place)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group C):
• Lost to Cuba (76-83)
• Defeated Italy (84-77)
• Defeated Sweden (64-55)
• Classification Round (Group B):
• Defeated Czechoslovakia (91-86)
• Lost to Poland (74-101)
• Defeated Senegal (95-64)
• Defeated India (93-75) → 8th place

• Team Roster:
• Peter Ali
• Stephen Breheny
• Perry Crosswhite
• Mel Dalgleish
• Ian Davies
• Gordon McLeod
  Gordon McLeod (basketball)
  Gordon McLeod is a former professional basketball player and current head coach of the Wollongong Hawks in Australia's National Basketball League.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Danny Morseau
• Les Riddle
• Larry Sengstock
  Larry Sengstock
  Larry Sengstock is a retired Australian basketball player and the current CEO of Basketball Australia and NBL....
  
  
• Phil Smyth
  Phil Smyth
  Philip John Smyth AM is an Australian former basketball player and former three time championship winning head coach of the National Basketball League's Adelaide 36ers.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Michael Tucker
• Peter Walsh
• Head Coach: Lindsay Gaze
  Lindsay Gaze
  Lindsay John Casson Gaze is an Australian basketball player and coach. He played for Australia in three Olympics between 1960 and 1968 and coached the Australian basketball team at four Olympics between 1972 and 1984...
  
  

Boxing

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Norm Stevens
• First Round — Lost to Geza Tumbas (Yugoslavia) on points (1-4)

Diving

Men's Springboard

• Stephen Foley
• Preliminary Round — 521.82 points (→ 11th place, did not advance)

Men's Platform

• Stephen Foley
• Preliminary Round — 427.44 points (→ 16th place, did not advance)

Fencing

Three fencers, one man and two women, represented Australia in 1980.

Men's foil

Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's foil

The men's foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from July 22 to 23 1980. 37 fencers from 16 nations competed.-Results:...

• Greg Benko

Men's épée

Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's épée

The men's épée was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from July 27 to 28 1980. 42 fencers from 16 nations competed.-Results:...

• Greg Benko

Women's foil

Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's foil

The women's foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eleventh appearance of the event. The competition was held from July 23 to 24, 1980. 33 fencers from 14 nations competed.-Results:...

• Mitzi Ferguson
  Mitzi Ferguson
  Mitzi Ferguson is an Australian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  
• Helen Smith
  Helen Smith (fencer)
  Helen Smith is an Australian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil events at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. She was a long standing member of the VRI Fencing Club before joining other clubs in the 1990s...
  
  

Modern pentathlon

Men's individual competition:

• Robert Barrie — 4696 pts, 37th place

Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Neil Brooks
  Neil Brooks
  Neil Brooks is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer best known for winning the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. Brooks was as much known for his swimming achievements as he was for disciplinary incidents...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 51,11 (2nd)
• Semi-Finals — 52,70 (→ did not advance)
• Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 52,59 (4th)
• Semi-Finals — 51,91 (3rd)
• Final — 52,22 (→ 8th place)
• Mark Tonelli
  Mark Tonelli
  Mark Lyndon Tonelli is a former Australian backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a makeshift butterfly swimmer in the self-named Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 52,04 (3rd)
• Semi-Finals — 52,17 (5th, did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 1.51,92 (2nd)
• Final — 1.51,60 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Ron McKeon
• Qualifying Heat — 1.52,66
• Final — 1.52,60 (→ 5th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

• Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 3.57,19 (→ did not advance)
• Max Metzker
  Max Metzker
  Maxwell Raymond Metzker was an Australian long distance freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 3.54,79 (2nd)
• Final — 3.56,87 (→ 7th place)
• Ron McKeon
• Qualifying Heat — 3.56,77 (2nd)
• Final — 3.57,00 (→ 8th place)

Men's 1.500m Freestyle

• Max Metzker
  Max Metzker
  Maxwell Raymond Metzker was an Australian long distance freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 15.21,63 (3rd)
• Final — 15.14,49 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Paul Moorfoot
• Qualifying Heat — 2.05,69 (5th, did not advance)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Peter Evans
  Peter Evans (swimmer)
  Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 1.04,55 (2nd)
• Final — 1.03,96 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Lindsay Spencer
• Qualifying Heat — 1.04,78 (3rd)
• Final — 1.05,04 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Lindsay Spencer
• Qualifying Heat — 2.21,08 (2nd)
• Final — 2.19,68 (→ 5th place)
• Peter Evans
  Peter Evans (swimmer)
  Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 2.26,62 (4th, did not advance)

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Mark Tonelli
  Mark Tonelli
  Mark Lyndon Tonelli is a former Australian backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a makeshift butterfly swimmer in the self-named Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 58,66 (1st)
• Semi Final — 57,89 (2nd)
• Final — 57,98 (→ 7th place)
• Mark Kerry
  Mark Kerry
  Marcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 58,08 (3rd)
• Semi Final — 58,07 (3rd, did not advance)
• Glenn Patching
  Glenn Patching
  Glenn Patching was an Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres backstroke event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1976.-References:*...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 58,30 (1st)
• Semi Final — 1.00,31 (8th, did not advance)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Mark Kerry
  Mark Kerry
  Marcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 3.03,60 (1st)
• Final — 2.03,14 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Mark Tonelli
  Mark Tonelli
  Mark Lyndon Tonelli is a former Australian backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a makeshift butterfly swimmer in the self-named Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 2.07,04 (3rd, did not advance)
• Paul Moorfoot
• Qualifying Heat — 2.04,87 (1st)
• Final — 2.06,15 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

• Paul Moorfoot
• Qualifying Heat — 4.34,28 (5th, did not advance)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer
  Graeme Brewer was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
  
  , Mark Tonelli
  Mark Tonelli
  Mark Lyndon Tonelli is a former Australian backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a makeshift butterfly swimmer in the self-named Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  , Mark Kerry
  Mark Kerry
  Marcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  , and Ron McKeon
• Qualifying Heat — 7.34,06 (3rd)
• Final — 7.30,82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

• Mark Kerry
  Mark Kerry
  Marcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  , Peter Evans
  Peter Evans (swimmer)
  Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  , Mark Tonelli
  Mark Tonelli
  Mark Lyndon Tonelli is a former Australian backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a makeshift butterfly swimmer in the self-named Quietly Confident Quartet...
  
  , and Neil Brooks
  Neil Brooks
  Neil Brooks is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer best known for winning the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. Brooks was as much known for his swimming achievements as he was for disciplinary incidents...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 3.48,94 (2nd)
• Final — 3.45,70 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Michelle Pearson
  Michelle Pearson
  Michelle Robyn Pearson , was an Australian medley and freestyle swimmer of the 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 58,90 (4th, did not advance)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Karen Ramsay
• Qualifying Heat — 2.06,06 (3rd, did not advance)

Women's 400m Freestyle

• Michelle Ford
  Michelle Ford
  Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 4.13,90 (1st)
• Final — 4.11,65 (→ 4th place)
• Rosemary Fydler
• Qualifying Heat — 4.21,36 (6th, did not advance)

Women's 800m Freestyle

• Michelle Ford
  Michelle Ford
  Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 8.42,36 (2nd)
• Final — 8.28,90 (→ Gold Medal)
• Rosemary Fydler
• Qualifying Heat — 8.49,47 (4th, did not advance)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• Lisa Curry
• Qualifying Heat — 1.02,92 (3rd)
• Final — 1.02,40 (→ 5th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

• Michelle Ford
  Michelle Ford
  Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 2.12,72 (1st)
• Final — 2.11,66 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Karen Ramsay
• Qualifying Heat — 2.17,82 (4th, did not advance)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

• Lisa Curry
• Qualifying Heat — 2.39,42 (→ 5th place, did not advance)

Women's 200m Butterfly

• Michelle Ford
  Michelle Ford
  Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games...
  
  
• Final — 2.11,66 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 100m Backstroke

• Lisa Forrest
  Lisa Forrest
  Elizabeth Marie "Lisa" Forrest is a former Australian swimmer and current media personality. Forrest was the captain of the Australian swimming team at the 1980 Summer Olympics-References:...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 1.04,55 (3rd, did not advance)
• Georgina Parkes
• Qualifying Heat — 1.05,06 (3rd, did not advance)

Women's 200m Backstroke

• Lisa Forrest
  Lisa Forrest
  Elizabeth Marie "Lisa" Forrest is a former Australian swimmer and current media personality. Forrest was the captain of the Australian swimming team at the 1980 Summer Olympics-References:...
  
  
• Qualifying Heat — 2.15,40 (1st)
• Final — 2.16,75 (→ 7th place)
• Georgina Parkes
• Qualifying Heat — 2.17,78 (3rd, did not advance)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

• Lisa Curry
• Qualifying Heat — 5.01,58 (→ 5th place, did not advance)

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

• Lisa Curry, Karen Ramsay, Rosemary Brown, and Michele Pearson
• Qualifying Heat — 3.56,24 (2nd)
• Final — 3.54,16 (→ 5th place)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

• Lisa Forrest
  Lisa Forrest
  Elizabeth Marie "Lisa" Forrest is a former Australian swimmer and current media personality. Forrest was the captain of the Australian swimming team at the 1980 Summer Olympics-References:...
  
  , Lisa Curry, Karen Ramsay, and Rosemary Brown
• Qualifying Heat — 4.23,33 (2nd)
• Final — 4.19,90 (→ 6th place)

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group C)
• Defeated Bulgaria (9-5)
• Lost to Cuba (4-6)
• Lost to Yugoslavia (2-9)
• Final Round (Group B)
• Defeated Bulgaria (8-5)
• Drew with Romania (4-4)
• Defeated Greece (4-2)
• Defeated Sweden (9-4)
• Defeated Italy (5-4) → 7th place

• Team Roster
• Michael Turner
• David Neesham
• Robert Bryant
• Peter Montgomery
• Julian Muspratt
• Andrew Kerr
• Anthony Falson
• Charles Turner
• Martin Callaghan
• Randall Goff
  Randall Goff
  Randall Goff is a former water polo player from Australia, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1976. He finished in 11th and 7th position with the Australian National Men's Team.-References:...
  
  
• Andrew Steward
• Head Coach: Tom Hoad
  Tom Hoad
  Tom Hoad is an Australian water polo coach and former player. In 1968, he was appointed to International Swimming Federation , the world governing body for swimming and was chairman of the 1998 World Swimming Championships held in Perth, Western Australia. He is currently a director of the...
  
  

Trivia

Norman May

Norman May

Norman 'Nugget' Alfred May AM is an Australian radio and television sports broadcaster famous in Australia for calling “GOLD, GOLD for Australia, GOLD” during the men's 4 x 100 medley final in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. His career in sports broadcasting began in the 1950s and extended well...

's call of the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay, in which he excitedly exclaimed "Four, Three, Two, One. Gold, Gold to Australia, Gold", has become one of the most famous calls in the history of Australian sport.

See also

• Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
  Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
  Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their eleventh of 11 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.-External links:*...
  
  
• Australia at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
  Australia at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
  Australia hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland and their team was abbreviated AUS.This was Australia's twelfth of 12 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.-Gold:...