Gweneth Molony is an 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...

n figure skater. She is the 1949-1951 Australian national champion

Australian Figure Skating Championships

The Australian Figure Skating Championships are the figure skating national championships held annually to crown the national champions of Australia. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...

. She represented Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Australia's second Winter Olympic Games appearance was at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. It was 16 years since Australia's last Winter Games, as the 1940 and 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled, and Australia did not compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics. Australia sent nine athletes and...

, where she placed 21st. She and Nancy Burley

Nancy Burley

Nancy Burley is an Australian figure skater. She represented Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where she placed 14th. She and Gweneth Molony were the first ladies singles skaters to represent Australia at the Olympics.Burley is the mother of figure skaters Sharon Burley and Robyn...

 were the first ladies singles skaters

Single skating

Single skating is a discipline of figure skating, wherein a single person skates alone. Men's singles and ladies' singles are both Olympic disciplines and are both governed by the International Skating Union. The other Olympic figure skating events are pair skating and ice dancing...

 to represent Australia at the Olympics. Molony also competed in pair skating

Pair skating

Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...

; she is the 1949 Australian national champion

Australian Figure Skating Championships

The Australian Figure Skating Championships are the figure skating national championships held annually to crown the national champions of Australia. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...

 with partner Adrian Swan

Adrian Swan

Adrian Swan is an Australian figure skater. He represented Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where he placed 10th. He was the first men's singles skater to represent Australia at the Olympics. In 1951, he also competed at the British Figure Skating Championships...

.

Molony came from a skating family. Her father E. J. "Ted" Molony competed in ice dancing, and her elder sister Patricia Molony

Patricia Molony

Patricia Molony is an Australian figure skater. She is the 1947 Australian national champion. At the 1947 World Figure Skating Championships, she became the first Australian lady to compete at the World Championships. Molony also competed at the European Figure Skating Championships before that...

 was the first Australian lady to compete at the World Championships.

Molony married former ice hockey player and sports administrator Geoff Henke

Geoff Henke

Geoff Henke is a former Australian ice hockey player and Australian Olympic Committee official. He was the chef de mission of the Australian Winter Olympic delegations from 1976 until 1994, and is credited with ending the neglect of winter sports in Australia....

. Their daughter Joanne Henke

Joanne Henke

Joanne Henke is a former Australian alpine skier who represented Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics. She is the daughter of former ice hockey player and Australian winter sports administrator Geoff Henke and 1952 figure skating Olympian Gweneth Molony.Gordon , p. 413.- References :...

 was a member of the Olympic downhill skiing team in 1976.

Single skating

Event	1950	1951	1952
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...			21st
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...			19th
Australian Championships Australian Figure Skating Championships The Australian Figure Skating Championships are the figure skating national championships held annually to crown the national champions of Australia. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...	1st	1st	1st

Pair skating

(with Swan)

Event	1950
Australian Championships Australian Figure Skating Championships The Australian Figure Skating Championships are the figure skating national championships held annually to crown the national champions of Australia. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing...	1st