Swimming at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
VenueQEII Leisure Centre, Queen Elizabeth II Park
LocationChristchurch, New Zealand
Dates24 January to 2 February 1974

Swimming at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was the tenth appearance of Swimming at the Commonwealth Games. There were 29 swimming events and they took place from 24 January to 2 February 1974.[1]

The events were held at the QEII Leisure Centre in Queen Elizabeth II Park and was specifically constructed for the Games. The centre was attached to the east stand of the main Commonwealth Games stadium used for the opening ceremony and athletics.[2]

Australia topped the medal table with 12 gold medals.[3][4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (New Zealand)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia12111033
2 Canada911727
3 England34613
4 Scotland2226
5 New Zealand*2147
6 Wales1001
7 Isle of Man0000
Totals (7 entries)29292987

Medallists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Michael Wenden Bruce Robertson Brian Phillips
200 m freestyle Steve Badger Bruce Robertson Michael Wenden
400 m freestyle John Kulasalu Brad Cooper Steve Badger
1500 m freestyle Steve Holland Mark Treffers Steve Badger
100 m backstroke Mark Tonelli Steve Pickell Brad Cooper
200 m backstroke Brad Cooper Mark Tonelli Robert Williams
100 m breaststroke David Leigh David Wilkie Paul Naisby
200 m breaststroke David Wilkie David Leigh Paul Naisby
100 m butterfly Neil Rogers Byron MacDonald Bruce Robertson
200 m butterfly Brian Brinkley Ross Seymour John Coutts
200 m individual medley David Wilkie Brian Brinkley Gary MacDonald
400 m individual medley Mark Treffers Brian Brinkley Raymond Terrell
4×100 m freestyle relay
Brian Phillips
Bruce Robertson
Gary MacDonald
Ian MacKenzie
Michael Wenden
Neil Rogers
Peter Coughlan
Ross Patterson
Brian Brinkley
Colin Cunningham
Keith Walton
Raymond Terrell
4×200 m freestyle relay
John Kulasalu
Michael Wenden
Robert Nay
Steve Badger
Brian Brinkley
Colin Cunningham
Neil Dexter
Raymond Terrell
Bruce Robertson
Gary MacDonald
Ian MacKenzie
Jim Fowlie
4×100 m medley relay
Brian Phillips
Bruce Robertson
Steve Pickell
William Mahony
Mark Tonelli
Michael Wenden
Neil Rogers
Nigel Cluer
Brian Brinkley
Colin Cunningham
David Leigh
Stephen Nash

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Sonya Gray Gail Amundrud Judy Wright
200 m freestyle Sonya Gray Jenny Turrall Gail Amundrud
400 m freestyle Jenny Turrall Wendy Quirk Jaynie Parkhouse
800 m freestyle Jaynie Parkhouse Jenny Turrall Rosemary Milgate
100 m backstroke Wendy Cook Donna-Marie Gurr Linda Young
200 m backstroke Wendy Cook Sandra Yost Donna-Marie Gurr
100 m breaststroke Christine Gaskell Marian Stuart Sandra Dickie
200 m breaststroke Pat Beavan Beverley Whitfield Allison Smith
100 m butterfly Patti Stenhouse Kim Wickham Sandra Yost
200 m butterfly Sandra Yost Patti Stenhouse Gail Neall
200 m individual medley Leslie Cliff Becky Smith Susan Hunter
400 m individual medley Leslie Cliff Becky Smith Susan Hunter
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Anne Jardin
Becky Smith
Gail Amundrud
Judy Wright
Debra Cain
Jennifer Turrall
Sonya Gray
Suzy Anderson
Alyson Jones
Avis Willington
Lesley Allardice
Susan Edmondson
4 × 100 m medley relay
Gail Amundrud
Marian Stuart
Patti Stenhouse
Wendy Cook
Beverley Whitfield
Debra Cain
Linda Young
Sonya Gray
Gillian Fordyce
Kim Wickham
Morag McGlashan
Sandra Dickie

Finals (men)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Michael Wenden 52.73
2 Bruce Robertson 53.78
3 Brian Phillips 54.11
4 Neil Rogers 54.31
5 Colin Cunningham 54.54
6 Ross Donald Patterson 54.58
7 Andrew Hunter 54.91
8 Keith Walton 55.26

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Steve Badger 1:56.72
2 Bruce Robertson 1:57.21
3 Michael Wenden 1:57.83
4 Robert Nay 1:57.84
5 Ian MacKenzie 1:57.96
6 Brett Naylor 1:59.35
7 Gordon Downie 1:59.39
8 Wilson Mills 1:59.53

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 John Kulasalu 4:01.44
2 Brad Cooper 4:02.12
3 Steve Badger 4:04.07
4 Mark Treffers 4:05.80
5 Brett Naylor 4:10.88
6 Alan McClatchey 4:12.32
7 Jim Fowlie 4:13.38
8 Neil Dexter 4:13.72

1500m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Steve Holland 15:34.73
2 Mark Treffers 15:59.82
3 Steve Badger 16:22.23
4 James Carter 16:34.70
5 Alan McClatchey 16:48.71
6 Jim Fowlie 16:53.43
7 Bruce Rogers 17:02.51
8 Brad Cooper 17:03.20

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Mark Tonelli 59.65
2 Steve Pickell 59.88
3 Brad Cooper 60.17
4 Ian MacKenzie 60.32
5 Colin Cunningham 60.98
6 Robert Williams 61.93
7 Ian Hughes 62.71
8 Robbie Howard 62.77

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Brad Cooper 2:06.31
2 Mark Tonelli 2:09.47
3 Robert Williams 2:09.83
4 Colin Cunningham 2:11.20
5 Ian MacKenzie 2:13.16
6 Steve Hardy 2:12.06
7 Paul Hughes 2:12.36
8 Ian Hughes 2:12.66

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 David Leigh 1:06.52
2 David Wilkie 1:07.37
3 Paul Naisby 1:08.52
4 Peter Hrdlitschka 1:09.92
5 Nigel Cluer 1:10.07
6 Alan Thompson 1:10.69
7 Gregory Bush 1:11.91
8 Michael Creswick 1:15.43

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 David Wilkie 2:24.42
2 David Leigh 2:24.75
3 Paul Naisby 2:27.36
4 Bill Mahony 2:27.62
5 Gregory Bush 2:30.13
6 Nigel Cluer 2:30.56
7 Peter Hrdlitschka 2:32.92
8 Michael Creswick 2:37.31

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Neil Rogers 56.58
2 Byron Macdonald 56.83
3 Bruce Robertson 56.84
4 Kenneth Ross Seymour 57.43
5 Brian Phillips 57.99
6 Colin Cunningham 59.16
7 Stephen Nash 59.45
8 Martin Edwards 59.60

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Brian Brinkley 2:04.51
2 Kenneth Ross Seymour 2:06.64
3 John Coutts 2:07.03
4 Lorne Kemmet 2:08.20
5 Peter Smith 2:08.94
6 Alan McClatchey 2:09.44
7 Stephen Nash 2:09.51
8 Byron Macdonald 2:11.52

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 David Wilkie 2:10.11
2 Brian Brinkley 2:12.73
3 Gary MacDonald 2:12.98
4 Raymond Terrell 2:13.69
5 Nigel Cluer 2:15.00
6 Rowland Jones 2:17.83
7 Peter Hrdlitschka 2:17.84
8 James Carter 2:18.74

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Mark Treffers 4:35.90
2 Brian Brinkley 4:41.29
3 Raymond Terrell 4:42.94
4 Jim Fowlie 4:44.57
5 James Carter 4:44.83
6 Paul Hughes 4:48.21
7 Gary MacDonald 4:49.49
8 Robert Williams 4:54.34

4 x 100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Phillips, Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie 3:33.79
2 Wenden, Rogers, Coughlan, Patterson 3:34.26
3 Brinkley, Cunningham, Walton, Terrell 3:38.22
4 McClatchey, Wilkie, Downie, Mills 3:42.91
5 Fogel, Naylor, Coutts, Johnston 3:45.76
6 Lewis, Moran, Jones, Maher 3:47.43

4 x 200 freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Kulasalu, Wenden, Nay, Badger 7:50.13
2 Brinkley, Cunningham, Dexter, Terrell 7:52.90
3 Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie, Fowlie 7:53.38
4 McClatchey, Downie, Carter, Mills 7:57.85
5 Naylor, Coutts, Treffers, Johnston 8:01.03
6 Lewis, Moran, Jones, Maher 8:31.53

4 x 100 medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Phillips, Robertson, Pickell, Mahony
2 Tonelli, Wenden, Rogers, Cluer 3:55.76
3 Brinkley, Cunningham, Leigh, Nash 4:00.48
4 Hughes, Wilkie, McClatchey, Downie 4:02.37
5 Lewis, Culverwell, Maher, Davies 4:13.98
6 Lewis, Naylor, Toomey, Thorogood 4:14.08
7 Howard, Hunter, Corry, McGrory 4:22.72

Finals (women)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sonya Gray 59.13
2 Gail Amundrud 59.36
3 Judy Wright 59.46
4 Anne Jardin 59.85
5 Jaynie Parkhouse 60.96
6 Suzy Anderson 61.24
7 Morag McGlashan 61.25
8 Jackie Simpson 62.04

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sonya Gray 2:04.27
2 Jenny Turrall 2:06.90
3 Gail Amundrud 2:07.03
4 Wendy Quirk 2:07.06
5 Jaynie Parkhouse 2:08.80
6 Brenda Holmes 2:08.87
7 Virginia Rickard 2:09.01
8 Diane Walker 2:10.02

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Jenny Turrall 4:22.09
2 Wendy Quirk 4:22.96
3 Jaynie Parkhouse 4:23.09
4 Sally Lockyer 4:24.57
5 Narelle Moras 4:25.21
6 Diane Walker 4:33.01
7 Anne Jardin 4:34.53
8 Debbie Simpson 4:39.39

800m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Jaynie Parkhouse 8:58.49
2 Jenny Turrall 8:58.53
3 Rosemary Milgate 8:58.59
4 Sally Lockyer 8:59.20
5 Wendy Quirk 9:05.29
6 Allison Calder 9:19.19
7 Brenda Holmes 9:22.03
8 Debbie Simpson 9:22.22

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Wendy Cook 1:06.37
2 Donna-Marie Gurr 1:06.55
3 Linda Young 1:07.52
4 Sue Lewis 1:07.56
5 Debra Cain 1:07.69
6 Becky Smith 1:08.03
7 Susan Hunter 1:09.06
8 Gillian Fordyce 1:09.18

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Wendy Cook 2:20.37
2 Sandra Yost 2:22.07
3 Donna-Marie Gurr 2:23.74
4 Sue Lewis 2:23.85
5 Linda Young 2:25.73
6 Susan Hunter 2:26.27
7 Monique Rodahl 2:27.67
8 Gillian Fordyce 2:28.37

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Christine Gaskell 1:16.42
2 Marian Stuart 1:16.61
3 Sandra Dickie 1:17.17
4 Pat Beavan 1:17.49
5 Christine Jarvis 1:17.59
6 Jane Lowe 1:17.72
7 Beverley Whitfield 1:17.75
8 Allison Smith 1:17.85

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Pat Beavan 2:43.11
2 Beverley Whitfield 2:43.58
3 Allison Smith 2:45.08
4 Jane Lowe 2:45.10
5 Christine Gaskell 2:45.12
6 Marian Stuart 2:46.96
7 Sandra Dickie 2:51.64
8 Caroline Tamlyn 2:51.89

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Patti Stenhouse 1:05.38
2 Kim Wickham 1:05.96
3 Sandra Yost 1:06.04
4 Debra Cain 1:06.07
5 Wendy Quirk 1:06.52
6 Leslie Cliff 1:07.15
7 Vicki Jaensch 1:07.72
8 Joanne Atkinson 1:08.86

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sandra Yost 2:20.57
2 Patti Stenhouse 2:20.66
3 Gail Neall 2:21.66
4 Leslie Cliff 2:22.10
5 France Latendresse 2:24.32
6 Vicki Jaensch 2:24.81
7 Jean Jeavons 2:26.48
8 Debbie Ledgerwood 2:28.40

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Leslie Cliff 2:24.13
2 Becky Smith 2:25.17
3 Susan Hunter 2:26.18
4 Wendy Cook 2:27.49
5 Debra Cain 2:27.97
6 Susan Richardson 2:28.67
7 Sally Lockyer 2:28.86
8 Diane Walker 2:29.62

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Leslie Cliff 5:01.35
2 Becky Smith 5:03.68
3 Susan Hunter 5:07.20
4 Sally Lockyer 5:07.93
5 Susan Richardson 5:08.74
6 Diane Walker 5:11.82
7 Brenda Holmes 5:11.86
8 Gail Neall 5:13.20

4 x 100 freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Jardin, Smith, Amundrud, Wright 3:57.14
2 Cain, Turrall, Gray, Anderson 4:02.37
3 Jones, Willington, Allardice, Edmondson 4:05.59
4 D Simpson, Walker, J Simpson, McGlashan 4:06.53
5 Calder, Parkhouse, Hunter, Kennedy 4:06.94
6 Adams, Parry, Walker, Hurn 4:26.32
7 J Perrott, Murphy, Probert, R Perrott 4:35.41

4 x 100 medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Amundrud, Stuart, Stenhouse, Cook 4:24.77
2 Whitfield, Cain, Young, Gray 4:30.55
3 Fordyce, Wickham, McGlashan, Dickie 4:31.68
4 Jones, Gaskell, Atkinson, Kelly 4:33.61
5 Ledgerwood, Lowe, Parkhouse, Rodahl 4:41.54
6 Adams, Walker, Beaven, Hurn 4:41.94
7 J Perrott, Murphy, Probert, R Perrott 5:11.90

See also

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Christchurch 1974". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Queen Elizabeth II Park, Christchurch". Teara.gov. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
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