Swimming at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Kinsmen Aquatic Centre
Location	Edmonton, Canada
Dates	3 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.

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.

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.

The aquatic centre (on the left) was constructed in 1976

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada*	15	7	9	31
2	Australia	10	9	11	30
3	England	2	11	7	20
4	New Zealand	2	2	2	6
Totals (4 entries)		29	29	29	87

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

• Diving at the 1978 Commonwealth Games