Swimming at the 1986 Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Royal Commonwealth Pool
Location	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date	24 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.

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

Australia topped the medal table with 11 gold medals.

The Royal Commonwealth Pool

The pool in 2015

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Scotland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	11	11	11	33
2	Canada	11	7	7	25
3	England	6	7	9	22
4	New Zealand	2	3	1	6
5	Scotland*	0	2	2	4
Totals (5 entries)		30	30	30	90

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