Gael Patricia Mulhall-Martin (born 27 August 1956 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australia

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n athlete, daughter of footballer Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules football

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er with the St Kilda Football Club.

She competed in the shot put

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 and in the discus throw

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She won the bronze medal in women's shot put at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1984 Summer Olympics

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 held in Los Angeles

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, United States

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, becoming the first Australian (male or female) to win an Olympic medal in a throwing event.

Mulhall competed in four successive Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

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 events from 1974, winning double gold in Shot Put and Discus at the 1986 Commonwealth Games

1986 Commonwealth Games

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 in Edinburgh

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Coached by Franz Stampfl

Franz Stampfl

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, she won a total of 20 senior Australian national championships in her career.

At the 1981 Pan Pacific Conference Games she was tested positive for the use of anabolic steroid

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s, and in 1987 she told a federal panel that she had used those doping

Doping

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substances throughout her career.