Swimming at the 1986 Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
VenueRoyal Commonwealth Pool
LocationEdinburgh, Scotland
Date24 July to 2 August 1986

Swimming at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was the 13th appearance of Swimming at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured 30 swimming events and was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 24 July to 2 August 1986.[1][2]

The events were held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool, which also hosted the events in 1970.[3]

Australia topped the medal table with 11 gold medals.[4][5]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Scotland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia11111133
2 Canada117725
3 England67922
4 New Zealand2316
5 Scotland*0224
Totals (5 entries)30303090

Medallists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Greg Fasala
 Australia 		Neil Brooks
 Australia 		Andy Jameson
 England
200 m freestyle Robert Gleria
 Australia 		Peter Dale
 Australia 		Thomas Stachewicz
 Australia
400 m freestyle Duncan Armstrong
 Australia 		Kevin Boyd
 England 		Mike Davidson
 New Zealand
1500 m freestyle Jason Plummer
 Australia 		Michael McKenzie
 Australia 		Chris Chalmers
 Canada
100 m backstroke Mark Tewksbury
 Canada 		Paul Kingsman
 New Zealand 		Mike West
 Canada
200 m backstroke Sandy Goss
 Canada 		Paul Kingsman
 New Zealand 		Sean Murphy
 Canada
100 m breaststroke Victor Davis
 Canada 		Adrian Moorhouse
 England 		Brett Stocks
 Australia
200 m breaststroke Adrian Moorhouse
 England 		Victor Davis
 Canada 		Nick Gillingham
 England
100 m butterfly Andy Jameson
 England 		Anthony Mosse
 New Zealand 		Tom Ponting
 Canada
200 m butterfly Anthony Mosse
 New Zealand 		Tom Ponting
 Canada 		Nick Hodgson
 England
200 m individual medley Alex Baumann
 Canada 		Rob Woodhouse
 Australia 		Neil Cochran
 Scotland
400 m individual medley Alex Baumann
 Canada 		Rob Woodhouse
 Australia 		Steve Poulter
 England
4 × 100 m freestyle relay  Australia
Greg Fasala (50.81) CGR
Matthew Renshaw
Mark Stockwell
Neil Brooks 		 Canada
Vlastimil Černý (51.06)
Sandy Goss (50.66)
Blair Hicken (50.92)
Alex Baumann (50.34) 		 England
Andy Jameson
Mark Foster
Geoffrey Stewart
Roland Lee
4 × 200 m freestyle relay  Australia
Duncan Armstrong
Peter Dale
Roberto Gleria
Thomas Stachewicz 		 Canada
Paul Szekula
Sandy Goss
Scott Flowers
Tom Ponting 		 England
John Davey
Jonathan Broughton
Kevin Boyd
Paul Howe
4 × 100 m medley relay
  Canada
Mark Tewksbury
Victor Davis
Tom Ponting
Alex Baumann
Heat swimmers
Mike West
Darcy Wallingford
Claude Lamy
Sandy Goss 		 England
Neil Harper
Adrian Moorhouse
Andy Jameson
Roland Lee
Heat swimmers
Nick Gillingham 		 Australia
Carl Wilson
Brett Stocks
Barry Armstrong
Greg Fasala

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Jane Kerr
 Canada 		Angela Harris
 Australia 		Nicola Fibbens
 England
200 m freestyle Susie Baumer
 Australia 		Jane Kerr
 Canada 		Ruth Gilfillan
 Scotland
400 m freestyle Sarah Hardcastle
 England 		Susie Baumer
 Australia 		Jenni Burke
 Australia
800 m freestyle Sarah Hardcastle
 England 		Julie McDonald
 Australia 		Jenni Burke
 Australia
100 m backstroke Sylvia Hume
 New Zealand 		Georgina Parkes
 Australia 		Nicole Livingstone
 Australia
200 m backstroke Georgina Parkes
 Australia 		Kathy Read
 England 		Jodi McGibbon
 Australia
100 m breaststroke Allison Higson
 Canada 		Jean Hill
 Scotland 		Dimity Douglas
 Australia
200 m breaststroke Allison Higson
 Canada 		Cindy Õunpuu
 Canada 		Dimity Douglas
 Australia
100 m butterfly Caroline Cooper
 England 		Caroline Foot
 England 		Samantha Purvis
 England
200 m butterfly Donna McGinnis
 Canada 		Karen Phillips
 Australia 		Jill Horstead
 Canada
200 m individual medley Suzanne Landells
 Australia 		Jean Hill
 Scotland 		Jane Kerr
 Canada
400 m individual medley Suzanne Landells
 Australia 		Jodie Clatworthy
 Australia 		Sarah Hardcastle
 England
4 × 100 m freestyle relay  Canada
Andrea Nugent
Jane Kerr
Pamela Rai
Patricia Noall 		 England
Annabelle Cripps
Caroline Cooper
Nicola Fibbens
Zara Long 		 Australia
Angela Harris
Jacqueline Grant
Julie Pugh
Sarah Thorpe
4 × 200 m freestyle relay  Australia
Jenni Burke
Michelle Pearson
Sarah Thorpe
Susie Baumer 		 England
Annabelle Cripps
Karen Mellor
Sarah Hardcastle
Zara Long 		 Canada
Donna McGinnis
Jane Kerr
Patricia Noall
Sophie Dufour
4 × 100 m medley relay  England
Caroline Cooper
Nicola Fibbens
Simone Hindmarch
Suki Brownsdon 		 Canada
Allison Higson
Barbara McBain
Donna McGinnis
Jane Kerr 		 Australia
Angela Harris
Dimity Douglas
Georgina Parkes
Karen Phillips

Finals

Men

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Greg Fasala 50.95
2 Neil Brooks 51.18
3 Andy Jameson 51.21
4 Sandy Goss 51.45
5 Roland Lee 51.47
6 Vlastimil Černý 51.53
7 Mark Stockwell 51.61
7 Blair Hicken 51.61

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Roberto Gleria 1:50.57
2 Peter Dale 1:51.16
3 Thomas Stachewicz 1:51.21
4 Tom Ponting 1:52.37
5 Neil Cochran 1:52.49
6 Kevin Boyd 1:52.75
7 Scott Flowers 1:53.76
8 Paul Howe 1:54.55

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Duncan Armstrong 3:52.25
2 Kevin Boyd 3:55.00
3 Mike Davidson 3:56.96
4 Scott Flowers 3:57.43
5 John Davey 3:57.55
6 Tony Day 3:58.20
7 Chris Bowie 3:58.28
8 Turlough O'Hare 3:58.33

1500m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Jason Plummer 15:12.62
2 Michael McKenzie 15:12.72
3 Chris Chalmers 15:18.05
4 Tony Day 15:22.76
5 Harry Taylor 15:24.45
6 Mike Davidson 15:38.54
7 Duncan Cruickshank 15:44.73
8 David Stacey 15:48.02

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Mark Tewksbury 56.45
2 Paul Kingsman 57.17
3 Mike West 57.46
4 Sean Murphy 57.93
5 Carl Wilson 58.28
6 Neil Harper 58.62
7 Thomas Stachewicz 58.64
8 Neil Cochran 58.82

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sandy Goss 2:02.55
2 Paul Kingsman 2:02.90
3 Sean Murphy 2:03.05
4 Gary Binfield 2:04.54
5 Michael West 2:04.86
6 David Orbell 2:05.59
7 Neil Cochran 2:06.52
8 Kirk Torrance 2:07.79

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Victor Davis 1:03.0
2 Adrian Moorhouse 1:03.09
3 Brett Stocks 1:03.75
4 Rodney Lawson 1:04.72
5 Gary Watson 1:05.20
6 Iain Campbell 1:05.30
7 Darcy Wallingford 1:05.61
8 Grant Forbes 1:06.34

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Adrian Moorhouse 2:16.35
2 Victor Davis 2:16.70
3 Nick Gillingham 2:20.46
4 Alex Baumann 2:20.83
5 Rodney Lawson 2:20.87
6 Iain Campbell 2:21.31
7 Murray Buswell 2:21.48
8 Brett Stocks 2:23.29

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Andy Jameson 54.07
2 Anthony Mosse 54.31
3 Tom Ponting 54.56
4 Barry James Armstrong 54.85
5 Anthony James McDonald 55.31
6 Vlastimil Černý 55.74
7 Ross Anderson 55.93
8 Nick Hodgson 56.28

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Anthony Mosse 1:57.27
2 Tom Ponting 1:58.54
3 Nick Hodgson 2:00.50
4 Peter Gilbert Gee 2:00.93
5 Vlastimil Černý 2:01.33
6 Anthony James McDonald 2:01.46
7 Steve Poulter 2:02.24
8 Ross Anderson 2:02.96

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Alex Baumann 2:01.80
2 Rob Woodhouse 2:04.19
3 Neil Cochran 2:04.34
4 John Davey 2:05.67
5 Victor Davis 2:05.75
6 Gary Binfield 2:06.57
7 Rob Chernoff 2:08.01
8 Anthony James McDonald 2:08.44

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Alex Baumann 4:18.29
2 Rob Woodhouse 4:22.51
3 Steve Poulter 4:24.71
4 John Davey 4:27.03
5 Jon Kelly 4:27.26
6 Gary Binfield 4:29.51
7 Tony Day 4:30.02
8 Deke Botsford 4:33.05

4x100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Fasala, Renshaw, Stockwell, Brooks 3:21.58
2 Černý, Goss, Hicken, Baumann 3:22.98
3 Jameson, Foster, Stewart, Lee 3:25.01
4 Bole, Wilson, Cochran, Brew 3:29.79
5 Lim, Gee Oon, Tay, Siong 3:32.62
6 Hor Man Yip, Li, Coak, Yi Ming Tsang 3:38.60
7 Stapley, Diamond, Nissiotis, Ncala 3:58.42
8 Lopez, Golding, Martinez, Vinales 4:02.60

4x200m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Armstrong, Dale, Gleria, Stachewicz 7:23.49
2 Szekula, Goss, Flowers, Ponting 7:29.52
3 Davey, Broughton, Boyd, Howe 7:33.39
4 Bole, Wilson, Cochran, Brew 7:36.31
5 Gwynne, Rosser, Perry, Day 7:54.98
6 Lim, Gee Oon, Khoon Hean Tay, Teik Oon 8:03.28

4x100m medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Tewksbury, Davis, Ponting, Baumann, West+, Wallingford+, Lamy+, Goss+ 3:44.00
2 Harper, Moorhouse, Jameson, Lee, Gillingham+ 3:44.85
3 Wilson, Stocks, Armstrong, Fasala 3:45.86
4 Mosse, Forbes, Kingsman, Anderson 3:48.58
5 Bole, Nelson, Watson, Leishman 3:54.05
6 Lim, Gee Oon, Teik Oon, Siong 3:56.99
7 Hor Man Yip, Li, Watt, Yi Ming Tsang 4:00.29
8 Perry, Williams, Rosser, Gwynne 4:07.54

+ swam in heats

Women

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Jane Kerr 57.62
2 Angela Harris 57.64
3 Nicola Fibbens 57.66
4 Julie Margaret Pugh 58.10
5 Sarah Louise Thorpe 58.17
6 Annabelle Cripps 58.59
7 Pamela Rai 58.81
8 Patricia Noall 58.94

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Susie Baumer 2:00.61
2 Jane Kerr 2:03.40
3 Ruth Gilfillan 2:03.88
4 Fiona McLay 2:04.01
5 Annabelle Cripps 2:04.19
6 Michelle Pearson 2:04.85
7 Patricia Noall 2:05.04
8 Zara Long 2:05.23

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sarah Hardcastle 4:07.68
2 Susie Baumer 4:12.77
3 Jenni Burke 4:14.22
4 Donna McGinnis 4:16.21
5 Ruth Gilfillan 4:17.25
6 Annabelle Cripps 4:19.05
7 Debby Wurzburger 4:20.97
8 Anna McVann 4:22.17

800m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sarah Hardcastle 8:24.77
2 Julie McDonald 8:29.52
3 Jenni Burke 8:41.64
4 Karen Mellor 8:44.15
5 Debby Wurzburger 8:44.16
6 Anna McVann 8:53.03
7 Gaynor Stanley 8:54.19
8 Kim Milne 8:57.94

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Sylvia Hume 1:04.00
2 Georgina Parkes 1:04.07
3 Nicole Livingstone 1:04.42
4 Simone Hindmarch 1:04.62
5 Kathy Read 1:04.88
6 Audrey Moore 1:05.17
7 Carmel Clark 1:05.34
8 Beverley Rose 1:05.63

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Georgina Parkes 2:14.88
2 Kathy Read 2:16.92
3 Jodi Lee McGibbon 2:17.66
4 Audrey Moore 2:19.20
5 Carmel Clark 2:19.29
6 Kerrylyne Torrance 2:19.87
7 Catherine White 2:19.96
8 Pascale Choquet 2:22.02

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Allison Higson 1:10.84
2 Jean Hill 1:11.38
3 Dimity Douglas 1:11.98
4 Suki Brownsdon 1:12.30
5 Cindy Õunpuu 1:12.55
6 Claire Tucker 1:13.94
7 Joanne Wood 1:14.15
8 Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick 1:14.38

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Allison Higson 2:31.20
2 Cindy Õunpuu 2:32.63
3 Dimity Douglas 2:34.54
4 Jean Hill 2:35.00
5 Suki Brownsdon 2:35.98
6 Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick 2:36.58
7 Gaynor Stanley 2:37.73
8 Nina Herbert 2:39.11

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Caroline Cooper 1:02.12
2 Caroline Foot 1:02.30
3 Samantha Purvis 1:02.49
4 Karen Phillips 1:03.24
5 Angela Harris 1:03.42
6 Celina Marie Hardy 1:03.45
7 Pamela Rai 1:03.48
8 Michelle MacPherson 1:03.66

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Donna McGinnis 2:11.97
2 Karen Phillips 2:12.71
3 Jill Horstead 2:14.53
4 Samantha Purvis 2:14.60
5 Celina Marie Hardy 2:14.63
6 Myra O'Fee 2:16.50
7 Helen Bewley 2:17.44
8 Lorraine Montford 2:19.63

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Suzie Landells 2:17.02
2 Jean Hill 2:17.21
3 Jane Kerr 2:18.73
4 Karin Helmstaedt 2:21.05
5 Jodie Clatworthy 2:21.07
6 Michelle Pearson 2:21.35
7 Shona Smart 2:21.71
8 Jennifer McElroy disq

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Suzie Landells 4:45.82
2 Jodie Clatworthy 4:49.67
3 Sarah Hardcastle 4:50.52
4 Donna McGinnis 4:51.62
5 Jean Hill 4:54.11
6 Michelle Pearson 4:55.10
7 Gaynor Stanley 4:56.76
8 Kathy Read 4:58.91

4x100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Nugent, Kerr, Rai, Noall 3:48.45
2 Cripps, Cooper, Fibbens, Long 3:49.65
3 Harris, Grant, Pugh, Thorpe 3:50.06
4 E. Gilfillan, Donnelly, R. Gilfillan, Watson 3:55.89
5 Clark, McLay, Torrance, Hume 4:02.43
6 Tucker, McKinnell, Cumbers, Lewis 4:02.99
7 Hung, Ng, Chow Lai Yee, Lee 4:06.78
8 Guiller, Madine, McKibben, Dugan 4:11.39

4x200m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Burke, Pearson, Thorpe, Baumer 8:12.09
2 Cripps, Mellor, Hardcastle, Long 8:13.70
3 McGinnis, Kerr, Noall, Dufour 8:20.78
4 E. Gilfillan, Donnelly, R. Gilfillan, Smart 8:26.58

4x100m medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Cooper, Fibbens, Hindmarch, Brownsdon 4:13.48
2 Higson, McBain, McGinnis, Kerr 4:14.89
3 Harris, Douglas, Parkes, Phillips 4:15.06
4 Rose, Hill, Smart, Donnelly 4:17.89
5 Tucker, Reeve, Lewis, McKinnell 4:30.70
6 Hung, Ng, Chow Lai Yee, Lee 4:36.83
7 Guiller, Madine, McKibben, Dugan 4:40.12

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