Swimming at the 1982 Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
VenueChandler Aquatic Centre
LocationBrisbane, Australia
Dates30 September to 9 October 1982

Swimming at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was the 12th appearance of Swimming at the Commonwealth Games. Competition featured 29 swimming events, held in Brisbane, Australia, from 30 September to 9 October 1982.[1]

The events at the Games were held at the new Chandler Aquatic Centre that was part of the Sleeman Sports Complex, which had been purpose-built for the games.[2]

Australia topped the medal table with 13 gold medals.[3][4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia*1313834
2 Canada97925
3 England77822
4 Scotland0235
5 New Zealand0011
Totals (5 entries)29292987

Medallists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle  Neil Brooks (AUS)  Greg Fasala (AUS)  Michael Delany (AUS)
200 m freestyle  Andrew Astbury (ENG)  Peter Szmidt (CAN)  Ron McKeon (AUS)
400 m freestyle  Andrew Astbury (ENG)  Peter Szmidt (CAN)  John Davey (ENG)
1500 m freestyle  Max Metzker (AUS)  Tim Ford (AUS)  Andrew Astbury (ENG)
100 m backstroke  Mike West (CAN)  Cameron Henning (CAN)  Wade Flemons (CAN)
200 m backstroke  Cameron Henning (CAN)  David Orbell (AUS)  Mike West (CAN)
100 m breaststroke  Adrian Moorhouse (ENG)  Victor Davis (CAN)  Peter Evans (AUS)
200 m breaststroke  Victor Davis (CAN)  Glen Beringen (AUS)  Adrian Moorhouse (ENG)
100 m butterfly  Dan Thompson (CAN)  Phil Hubble (ENG)  Tom Ponting (CAN)
200 m butterfly  Phil Hubble (ENG)  Paul Rowe (AUS)  Jon Sieben (AUS)
200 m individual medley  Alex Baumann (CAN)  Robin Brew (SCO)  Jeffrey Sheehan (CAN)
400 m individual medley  Alex Baumann (CAN)  Steve Poulter (ENG)  John Davey (ENG)
4×100 m freestyle relay  Australia
Greg Fasala
Michael Delany
Graeme Brewer
Neil Brooks 		 England
David Lowe
Philip Hubble
Philip Osborn
Richard Burrell 		 Canada
Alex Baumann (51.88)
Blair Hicken
Graham Welbourn
Peter Szmidt
4×200 m freestyle relay  Australia
Graeme McGufficke
Ron McKeon
Paul Rowe
Graeme Brewer 		 England
Philip Osborn
John Davey
Philip Hubble
Andrew Astbury 		 Scotland
Douglas Campbell
Neil Cochran
Graeme Wilson
Paul Easter
4×100 m medley relay  Australia
David Orbell
Peter Evans
Jon Sieben
Neil Brooks 		 England
Stephen Harrison
Adrian Moorhouse
Philip Hubble
David Lowe 		 Scotland
Douglas Campbell
Iain Campbell
William McGoldrick
Paul Easter

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle  June Croft (ENG)  Angela Russell (AUS)  Lisa Curry (AUS)
200 m freestyle  June Croft (ENG)  Tracey Wickham (AUS)  Susie Baumer (AUS)
400 m freestyle  Tracey Wickham (AUS)  Jackie Willmott (ENG)  June Croft (ENG)
800 m freestyle  Tracey Wickham (AUS)  Michelle Ford (AUS)  Jackie Willmott (ENG)
100 m backstroke  Lisa Forrest (AUS)  Georgina Parkes (AUS)  Audrey Moore (AUS)
200 m backstroke  Lisa Forrest (AUS)  Georgina Parkes (AUS)  Cheryl Gibson (CAN)
100 m breaststroke  Kathy Bald (CAN)  Anne Ottenbrite (CAN)  Suki Brownsdon (ENG)
200 m breaststroke  Anne Ottenbrite (CAN)  Kathy Bald (CAN)  Katherine Richardson (CAN)
100 m butterfly  Lisa Curry (AUS)  Janet Tibbits (AUS)  Michelle MacPherson (CAN)
200 m butterfly  Michelle Ford (AUS)  Janet Tibbits (AUS)  Ann Osgerby (ENG)
200 m individual medley  Lisa Curry (AUS)  Cheryl Gibson (CAN)  Michelle Pearson (AUS)
400 m individual medley  Lisa Curry (AUS)  Michelle Pearson (AUS)  Michelle MacPherson (CAN)
4×100 m freestyle relay  England
Debra Gore
Jackie Willmott
June Croft
Nicola Fibbens 		 Scotland
Alison Hamilton
Cathy Finlay
Nikki Ramsay
Sarah Inkson 		 New Zealand
Gail Jonson
Kim Dewar
Melanie Jones
Pamela Croad
4×100 m medley relay  Canada
Anne Ottenbrite
Cheryl Gibson
Maureen New
Michelle MacPherson 		 England
Ann Osgerby
Catherine White
June Croft
Suki Brownsdon 		 Scotland
Beverley Rose
Cathy Finlay
Nicola Geddes
Nikki Ramsay

Finals

Men

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Neil Brooks 51.14
2 Greg Fasala 51.28
3 Michael Delany 51.57
4 Peng Ang Siong 51.94
5 David Lowe 51.98
6 Richard Burrell 52.21
7 Graham Welbourn 52.61
8 Blair Hicken 52.64

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Andrew Astbury 1:51.52
2 Peter Szmidt 1:51.65
3 Ron McKeon 1:51.71
4 Alex Baumann 1:52.07
5 Graeme Brewer 1:52.38
6 Graeme Neal McGufficke 1:52.45
7 Cameron Henning 1:53.79
8 Doug Campbell 1:53.97

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Andrew Astbury 3:53.29
2 Peter Szmidt 3:53.74
3 John Davey 3:55.52
4 Graeme Brewer 3:55.81
5 Ron McKeon 3:56.83
6 Paul Easter 3:58.38
7 David Shemilt 3:58.47
8 Justin Lemberg 3:59.59

1500m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Max Metzker 15:23.94
2 Tim Ford 15:27.00
3 Andrew Astbury 15:34.41
4 Wayne Shillington 15:37.50
5 David Shemilt 15:42.23
6 Paul Easter 15:47.53
7 Duncan Cruickshank 15:55.06
8 Peter Szmidt 15:57.32

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Mike West 57.12
2 Cameron Henning 57.82
3 Wade Flemons 58.38
4 Stephen Harrison 58.59
5 David Orbell 58.68
6 Andy Jameson 58.76
7 Matthew Renshaw 59.19
8 Doug Campbell 59.58

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Cameron Henning 2:02.88
2 David Orbell 2:03.93
3 Mike West 2:04.36
4 Andy Jameson 2:05.95
5 Doug Campbell 2:06.27
6 Kim Terrell 2:08.20
7 Neil Cochran 2:09.04
8 Paul Kingsman 2:10.65

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Adrian Moorhouse 1:02.93
2 Victor Davis 1:03.18
3 Peter Evans 1:03.48
4 Stephen Cook 1:04.75
5 John Clark 1:05.55
6 Grant Forbes 1:05.86
7 Marco Veilleux 1:06.04
8 Brett Austin 1:06.62

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Victor Davis 2:16.25
2 Glenn Beringen 2:19.06
3 Adrian Moorhouse 2:19.31
4 Peter Evans 2:20.13
5 Lindsay Spencer 2:20.17
6 Mark Kalaugher 2:22.24
7 Steve Sproule 2:23.62
8 Iain Campbell 2:24.89

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Dan Thompson 54.71
2 Philip Hubble 55.52
3 Tom Ponting 55.64
4 David Lowe 55.67
5 Jon Sieben 55.89
6 Paul Rowe 56.19
7 Lance Schroeder 56.56
8 Greg Fasala 57.19

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Philip Hubble 2:00.98
2 Paul Rowe 2:01.18
3 Jon Sieben 2:01.24
4 Steve Poulter 2:01.40
5 Victor Davis 2:01.74
6 Lance Schroeder 2:02.49
7 Anthony Mosse 2:02.76
8 Levente Mady 2:04.38

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Alex Baumann 2:02.25
2 Robin Brew 2:05.83
3 Jeff Sheehan 2:07.14
4 Victor Davis 2:07.44
5 John Davey 2:08.05
6 Michael Bohl 2:08.72
7 Robert Woodhouse 2:10.29
8 Barry Ray Salisbury 2:11.79

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Alex Baumann 4:23.53
2 Steve Poulter 4:27.09
3 John Davey 4:27.91
4 Cameron Reid 4:29.33
5 Peter Dobson 4:29.89
6 Matthew Robert Brown 4:30.35
7 Justin Lemberg 4:33.62
8 Robert Woodhouse 4:37.17

4x100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Fasala, Delany, Brewer, Brooks 3:24.17
2 Lowe, Hubble, Osborn, Burrell 3:26.98
3 Baumann, Hicken, Welbourn, Szmidt 3:27.74
4 Adkins, Taylor, Gwilt, Roberts 3:31.98
5 Campbell, Wilson, Easter, Brew 3:33.71
6 Salisbury, Davidson, Parker, Wells 3:35.50
7 Li, Chan, Tsang, Chung 3:46.56
8 Khajan Singh, Chakraborty, Thouba Singh, Cherian 4:08.12

4x200m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 McGufficke, McKeon, Rowe, Brewer 7:28.81
2 Osborn, Davey, Hubble, Astbury 7:30.00
3 Campbell, Cochran, Wilson, Easter 7:39.86
4 Wells, Davidson, Parker, Mosse 7:46.83
5 Tony Day, Morris, Perry, Taylor 7:50.21
6 Baumann, Henning, Kelly, Szmidt 3:27.74 disq

4x100m medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Orbell, Evans, Sieben, Brooks 3:47.34 mins
2 Harrison, Moorhouse, Hubble, Lowe 3:48.25
3 D. Campbell, I. Campbell, McGoldrick, Easter 3:55.45
4 Atkinson, Taylor, Gwilt, Roberts 3:55.49
5 Mosse, Salisbury, Austin, Kingsman 3:56.58
6 Tang, Li, Sang, Leung 4:09.43
7 Khajan Singh, Chakraborty, Thouba Singh, Cherian 4:18.67
8 Baumann, Thompson, West, Davis disq

Women

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 June Croft 56.97
2 Angela Russell 57.39
3 Lisa Curry 57.68
4 Susie Baumer 58.22
5 Maureen New 58.32
6 Jennifer Campbell 58.60
7 Naomi Marubashi 58.68
8 Debra Gore 59.44

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 June Croft 1:59.74
2 Tracey Wickham 2:00.60
3 Susie Baumer 2:02.29
4 Rosemary Brown 2:02.66
5 Cheryl McArton 2:03.82
6 Julie Daigneault 2:05.45
7 Nikki Ramsay 2:05.69
8 Sarah Inkson 2:06.25

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Tracey Wickham 4:08.82
2 Jackie Willmott 4:13.04
3 June Croft 4:13.13
4 Susie Baumer 4:14.66
5 Rosemary Brown 4:14.90
6 Julie Daigneault 4:19.36
7 Sarah Kerswell 4:22.93
8 Cheryl McArton 4:24.15

800m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Tracey Wickham 8:29.05
2 Michelle Ford 8:33.74
3 Jackie Willmott 8:36.66
4 Julie Daigneault 8:45.72
5 Sarah Hardcastle 8:51.17
6 Cheryl McArton 8:53.45
7 Danielle Marie Somerville-Kimlin 8:54.32
8 Alison Hamilton 9:01.31

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lisa Forrest 1:03.48
2 Georgina Parkes 1:03.63
3 Audrey Moore 1:03.91
4 Cheryl Gibson 1:04.15
5 Beverley Rose 1:04.44
6 Reema Abdo 1:05.05
7 Catherine White 1:05.19
8 Helen Jameson 1:05.98

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lisa Forrest 2:13.46
2 Georgina Parkes 2:13.95
3 Cheryl Gibson 2:15.87
4 Audrey Moore 2:17.85
5 Jennifer Campbell 2:19.11
6 Catherine White 2:19.87
7 Reema Abdo 2:20.21
8 Beverley Rose 2:20.67

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Kathy Bald 1:11.89
2 Anne Ottenbrite 1:11.99
3 Suki Brownsdon 1:13.76
4 Lisa Borsholt 1:13.86
5 Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick 1:14.79
6 Joanne Seymour 1:14.88
7 Wendy Anne Bowie 1:15.23
8 Claire Tucker 1:15.26

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Anne Ottenbrite 2:32.07
2 Kathy Bald 2:36.06
3 Katherine Richardson 2:36.45
4 Suki Brownsdon 2:38.45
5 Gaynor Stanley 2:38.67
6 Rickie Danielle Binning 2:39.73
7 Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick 2:41.78
8 Sandra Bowman 2:43.72

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lisa Curry 1:01.22
2 Janet Linda Tibbits 1:01.70
3 Michelle MacPherson 1:01.93
4 Angela Russell 1:02.40
5 Ann Osgerby 1:02.95
6 Freda Ross 1:03.06
7 Linda Criddle 1:03.27
8 Megan Tohill 1:05.03

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Michelle Ford 2:11.89
2 Janet Tibbits 2:13.18
3 Ann Osgerby 2:13.91
4 Freda Ross 2:15.40
5 Susan Jennifer Woodhouse 2:16.16
6 Chantel Venne 2:16.72
7 Linda Criddle 2:20.47
8 Cathy Finlay 2:21.85

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lisa Curry 2:16.94
2 Cheryl Gibson 2:19.91
3 Michelle Pearson 2:20.19
4 Kathy Bald 2:20.79
5 Jennifer Campbell 2:21.71
6 Rickie Danielle Binning 2:22.71
7 Louise Tate 2:22.74
8 Catherine Jackson 2:24.71

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Lisa Curry 4:51.95
2 Michelle Pearson 4:53.73
3 Michelle MacPherson 4:55.09
4 Cheryl Gibson 4:57.56
5 Suzie Landells 4:59.86
6 Sarah Kerswell 5:02.69
7 Sarah Hardcastle 5:04.21
8 Katherine Richardson 4:54.39 disq

4x100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Gore, Willmott, Croft, Fibbens 3:54.23
2 Hamilton, Finlay, Ramsay, Inkson 4:01.46
3 Jonson, Dewar, Jones, Croad 4:07.14
4 Flink, Wong, Ng, Wai Lai 4:12.73
5 Sood, Anand, Broacha, Madan 4:41.70
6 Russell, Baumer, Watts, Curry disq
7 Bald, New, Campbell, Marubashi disq

4x100m medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Ottenbrite, Gibson, New, MacPherson 4:14.33
2 Osgerby, White, Croft, Brownsdon 4:19.04
3 Rose, Finlay, Geddes, Ramsay 4:25.75
4 Dewar, Tohill, Croad, Cross 4:33.97
5 Ng, Wong, Chow, Flink 4:38.93
6 Sood, Anand, Broacha, Madan 4:59.73
7 Russell, Fitzpatrick, Parkes, Curry 4.13.78 disq+

+Russell left the blocks early

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Brisbane 1982". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Just the right price". The Australian Women's Weekly. 11 August 1982. p. 129. Retrieved 31 January 2026 – via Trove.
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
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