Swimming at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
VenueKinsmen Aquatic Centre
LocationEdmonton, Canada
Dates3 to 12 August 1978

Swimming at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was the 11th appearance of Swimming at the Commonwealth Games. There were 29 swimming events and they took place from 3 to 12 August 1978.[1]

The events were held at the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, part of the Kinsmen Sports Centre complex. The aquatic centre was constructed in 1976 specifically for the Games.[2]

Canada topped the medal table with 15 gold medals. It was the first time since 1938 that Australia had failed to top the table and only four nations managed to secure swimming medals.[3][4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Canada*157931
2 Australia1091130
3 England211720
4 New Zealand2226
Totals (4 entries)29292987

Medallists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Mark Morgan Bill Sawchuk Gary MacDonald
200 m freestyle Ron McKeon Graeme Brewer Mark Morgan
400 m freestyle Ron McKeon Simon Gray Max Metzker
1500 m freestyle Max Metzker Simon Gray Andrew Astbury
100 m backstroke Glenn Patching Gary Abraham Jay Tapp
200 m backstroke Gary Hurring Glenn Patching Paul Moorfoot
100 m breaststroke Graham Smith Duncan Goodhew Paul Naisby
200 m breaststroke Graham Smith Duncan Goodhew Lindsay Spencer
100 m butterfly Dan Thompson John Mills Bill Sawchuk
200 m butterfly George Nagy Claus Bredschneider Phil Hubble
200 m individual medley Graham Smith Bill Sawchuk Peter Dawson
400 m individual medley Graham Smith Simon Gray Bill Sawchuk
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Bill Sawchuk
Gary MacDonald
Graham Smith
Peter Szmidt
Glenn Patching
Graeme Brewer
Mark Morgan
Ron McKeon
David Dunne
Kevin Burns
Martin Smith
Richard Burrell
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Graeme Brewer
Mark Morgan
Max Metzker
Ron McKeon
Bill Sawchuk
Dennis Corcoran
Peter Szmidt
Robert Baylis
David Dunne
Martin Smith
Philip Hubble
Simon Gray
4 × 100 m medley relay
Bill Sawchuk
Dan Thompson
Graham Smith
Jay Tapp
Gary Abraham
Duncan Goodhew
John Mills
Martin Smith
Glenn Patching
Graeme Brewer
Lindsay Spencer
Mark Morgan

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Carol Klimpel Rosemary Brown Wendy Quirk
200 m freestyle Rebecca Perrott Tracey Wickham Michelle Ford
400 m freestyle Tracey Wickham Michelle Ford Rebecca Perrott
800 m freestyle Tracey Wickham Michelle Ford Rebecca Perrott
100 m backstroke Debra Forster Hélène Boivin Cheryl Gibson
200 m backstroke Cheryl Gibson Lisa Forrest Glenda Robertson
100 m breaststroke Robin Corsiglia Maggie Kelly Marian Stuart
200 m breaststroke Lisa Borsholt Debbie Rudd Maggie Kelly
100 m butterfly Wendy Quirk Penny McCarthy Linda Hanel
200 m butterfly Michelle Ford Wendy Quirk Linda Hanel
200 m individual medley Sharron Davies Rebecca Perrott Becky Smith
400 m individual medley Sharron Davies Becky Smith Cheryl Gibson
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Carol Klimpel
Gail Amundrud
Sue Sloan
Wendy Quirk
Cheryl Brazendale
Heidi Turk
Kaye Lovatt
Sharron Davies
Lisa Burnes
Michelle Ford
Rosemary Brown
Tracey Wickham
4 × 100 m medley relay
Carol Klimpel
Hélène Boivin
Marian Stuart
Wendy Quirk
Debra Forster
Lisa Curry-Kenny
Rosemary Brown
Tracey Wickham
Helen Gilyard
Margaret Kelly
Sharron Davies
Sue Jenner

Finals (men)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Mark Morgan 52.70
2 Bill Sawchuk 52.81
3 Gary MacDonald 52.90
4 Graeme Brewer 52.95
5 Peter Szmidt 53.13
6 Glenn Patching 53.63
7 Gordon Downie 53.81
8 Richard Burrell 53.82

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Ron McKeon 1:52.06
2 Graeme Brewer 1:52.86
3 Mark Morgan 1:53.16
4 Gordon Downie 1:54.44
5 David Dunne 1:54.58
6 Peter Szmidt 1:55.41
7 Dennis Michael Corcoran 1:56.07
8 Martin Smith 1:56.07

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Ron McKeon 3:54.43
2 Simon Gray 3:56.87
3 Max Metzker 3:58.83
4 Peter Szmidt 3:58.86
5 Andrew Astbury 4:01.12
6 Brett Naylor 4:03.59
7 Dennis Michael Corcoran 4:04.63
8 Steve Lewington 4:05.62

1500m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Max Metzker 15:31.92
2 Simon Gray 15:39.39
3 Andrew Astbury 15:42.89
4 Paul Nash 15:44.42
5 Peter Szmidt 15.57.18
6 Robert David Baylis 16:14.88
7 Steve Lewington 16:15.05
8 Dennis Michael Corcoran 16:27.35

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Glenn Patching 57.90
2 Gary Abraham 58.48
3 Jay Tapp 59.05
4 Wade Flemons 59.56
5 Paul Julian Marshall 59.57
6 James Carter 59.79
7 Cameron Henning 1:00.33
8 Paul Moorfoot 1:00.92

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Gary Hurring 2:04.37
2 Glenn Patching 2:05.76
3 Paul Moorfoot 2:05.99
4 Cameron Henning 2:06.35
5 Mike Scarth 2:07.13
6 James Carter 2:07.91
7 Gary Abraham 2:08.45
8 Ian R. Bullock 2:09.24

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Graham Smith 1:03.81
2 Duncan Goodhew 1:04.24
3 Paul Naisby 1:06.36
4 Bruce Kent 1:06.96
5 Lindsay Spencer 1:07.00
6 Leigh Atkinson 1:07.70
7 Gregory Luke Wurzback 1:07.83
8 Michael Joseph Foley 1:07.95

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Graham Smith 2:20.86
2 Duncan Goodhew 2:21.92
3 Lindsay Spencer 2:22.49
4 Michael Joseph Foley 2:24.76
5 Gregory Luke Wurzback 2:25.31
6 Bruce Kent 2:25.38
7 Paul Naisby 2:27.46
8 Leigh Atkinson 2:27.95

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Dan Thompson 55.04
2 John Mills 56.22
3 Bill Sawchuk 56.37
4 Paul Rowe 56.61
5 Phil Hubble 56.78
6 George Nagy 57.13
7 Gary Abraham 57.29
8 Mark Morgan 57.51

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 George Nagy 2:01.99
2 Claus Bredschneider 2:02.49
3 Phil Hubble 2:02.53
4 Simon Gray 2:03.48
5 Richard Robert Nagy 2:04.57
6 Trevor George Cracknell 2:05.01
7 Alan McClatchey 2:05.69
8 Peter Morris 2:06.84

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Graham Smith 2:05.25
2 Bill Sawchuk 2:05.61
3 Peter Dawson 2:09.05
4 Christopher Erickson 2:10.64
5 Duncan Cleworth 2:10.68
6 Andrew Phillips 2:15.55
7 Ian Stanley Corry 2:16.45
8 Martin Morgan Thomas 2:18.35

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Graham Smith 4:27.34
2 Simon Gray 4:27.70
3 Bill Sawchuk 4:27.99
4 George Michael Nagy 4:34.65
5 Peter Dawson 4:35.25
6 Alan McClatchey 4:36.47
7 Duncan Cleworth 4:38.10
8 Paul Moorfoot 4:40.69

4 x 100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sawchuk, MacDonald, Smith, Szmidt 3:27.94
2 Patching, Brewer, Morgan, McKeon 3:28.62
3 Dunne, Burns, Smith, Burrell 3:30.10
4 Iredale, McClatchey, Dawson, Downie 3:34.23
5 Salisbury, Naylor, Bullock, Rowe 3:35.53
6 Taylor, Thomas, Roberts, Sadler, 3:42.17
7 S.Sivers, Standish, L.Sivers, Vinales 4:06.96

4 x 200 freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Brewer, Morgan, Metzker, McKeon 7:34.83
2 Sawchuk, Corcoran, Szmidt, Baylis 7:36.58
3 Dunne, Smith, Hubble, Gray 7:42.02
4 McClatchey, Campbell, Marshall, Downie 7:46.89
5 Salisbury, Naylor, Bullock, Rowe 7:52.00

4 x 100 medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sawchuk, Thompson, Smith, Tapp 3:49.76
2 Abraham, Goodhew, Mills, Smith 3:50.22
3 Patching, Brewer, Spencer, Morgan 3:53.16
4 Downie, Oldershaw, Marshall, Iredale 3:59.67
5 Sadler, Atkinson, Taylor, Roberts 4:02.14
6 Corry, Meharg, Howard, Magowan 4:11.52

Finals (women)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Carol Klimpel X57.78
2 Rosemary Brown 58.30
3 Wendy Quirk 58.41
4 Sue Sloan 58.44
5 Cheryl Brazendale 59.57
6 Heidi Turk 59.58
7 Vanessa Jane Bullock 1:00.08
8 Lisa Gaye Burnes 1:00.29

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Rebecca Perrott 2:00.63
2 Tracey Wickham 2:01.50
3 Michelle Ford 2:01.64
4 Wendy Quirk 2:04.08
5 Sharron Davies 2:04.11
6 Nancy Garapick 2:04.19
7 Rosemary Brown 2:05.40
8 Gail Amundrud 2:05.59

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Tracey Wickham 4:08.45
2 Michelle Ford 4:10.25
3 Rebecca Perrott 4:16.70
4 Rosemary Brown 4:18.06
5 Susan Marguereite Mason 4:24.63
6 Barbara Anna Shockey 4:25.51
7 Cheryl Brazendale 4:26.41
8 Denise McPhillamy 4:34.39

800m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Tracey Wickham 8:24.62
2 Michelle Ford 8:25.78
3 Rebecca Perrott 8:44.87
4 Joanne Lynn Litzow 8:47.42
5 Barbara Anna Shockey 9:02.23
6 Lorinda Marianne Parkes 9:04.82
7 Jennifer Boulianne 9:05.41
8 Junie Sng 9:24.49

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Debra Forster 1:03.97
2 Hélène Boivin 1:04.54
3 Cheryl Gibson 1:04.68
4 Becky Smith 1:05.37
5 Helen Gilyard 1:05.98
6 Joy Beasley 1:06.03
7 Lisa Forrest 1:06.40
8 Glenda Robertson 1:06.68

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Cheryl Gibson 2:16.57
2 Lisa Forrest 2:17.66
3 Glenda Robertson 2:18.32
4 Debra Forster 2:18.41
5 Suzanne Kwasny 2:18.69
6 Jennifer Boulianne 2:21.04
7 Melanie Jones 2:21.20
8 Joy Beasley 2:23.59

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Robin Corsiglia 1:13.56
2 Maggie Kelly 1:13.69
3 Marian Stuart 1:13.72
4 Lisa Curry 1:13.85
5 Debbie Rudd 1:14.69
6 Judy Susan Garay 1:14.72
7 Jean Hill 1:16.04
8 Maureen Campbell 1:16.30

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lisa Borsholt 2:37.70
2 Debbie Rudd 2:38.07
3 Maggie Kelly 2:38.63
4 Lisa Curry 2:38.81
5 Christine Hodson 2:40.36
6 Robin Corsiglia 2:44.54
7 Maureen Campbell 2:45.94
8 Lynne Prosser 2:48.04

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Wendy Quirk 1:01.92
2 Penny McCarthy 1:02.27
3 Linda Hanel 1:02.69
4 Sue Sloan 1:03.02
5 Kelly Albright 1:03.12
6 Sue Jenner 1:03.31
7 Karen Van de Graaf 1:03.53
8 Ann Osgerby 1:03.64

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Michelle Ford 2:11.29
2 Wendy Quirk 2:13.65
3 Linda Hanel 2:14.52
4 Kelly Albright 2:14.83
5 Cheryl Gibson 2:16.77
6 Sue Jenner 2:16.78
7 Ann Osgerby 2:17.00
8 Karen Van de Graaf 2:18.32

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sharron Davies 2:18.37
2 Rebecca Perrott 2:18.70
3 Becky Smith 2:18.95
4 Lisa Curry 2:20.59
5 Nancy Garapick 2:21.46
6 Cheryl Gibson 2:22.40
7 Michelle Pearson 2:24.82
8 Andrea Jane Hawcridge 2:27.07

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sharron Davies 4:52.44
2 Becky Smith 4:57.83
3 Cheryl Gibson 4:59.39
4 Moira Houston 5:02.98
5 Michele Pearson 5:04.10
6 Christine Hodson 5:05.49
7 Lynne Prosser 5:09.26
8 Karen Van de Graaf 5:11.63

4 x 100 freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Kilmpel, Amundrud, Sloan, Quirk 3:50.28
2 Brazendale, Turk, Lovatt, Davies 3:53.27
3 Burnes, Ford, Brown, Wickham 3:54.11
4 James, Adams, Motley, Bullock 4:02.28
5 Rose, McPhillamy, Hendry, Dickie 4:07.30
6 Hawcridge, Jones, McCarthy, Perrott disq

4 x 100 medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Klimpel, Boivin, Stuart, Quirk 4:15.26
2 Forster, Curry, Brown, Wickham 4:16.75
3 Gilyard, Kelly, Davies, Jenner 4:19.87
4 Rose, McPhillamy, Campbell, Dickie 4:30.15
5 James, Adams, Motley, Bullock 4:32.15
6 Scott, Logan, Law, Parkes 4:43.99

See also

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Edmonton 1978". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Kinsmen Sports Centre". Archived from the original on 9 November 2006. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
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