Australian Paralympic Swim Team


The Australian Paralympic Swim Team has competed at every Summer Paralympics, which started with the 1960 Summer Paralympic Games.
Matthew Cowdrey at the 2012 London Games replaced Priya Cooper as Australia's most successful Paralympic swimmer, with a tally of 13 gold medals over three Paralympic Games. Cowdrey replaced Kingsley Bugarin for the record for holding the most number of medals in any sport, with 23 medals from 3 Paralympic Games. Jacqueline Freney won 8 gold medals at the 2012 London Games replacing Siobhan Paton as Australia's most successful Paralympic competitor at a single games.

Leading Australian swimmers, 1960–2016

Australian Medal Tally 1960–2016

1960 Summer Paralympics

was Australia's first Paralympic Swim Team member. At the 1960 Summer Paralympics, Ceeney won gold in the Women's 50m Breaststroke and gold in the Women's 50m Crawl in the "complete class 5". At the same games, she also competed in the Archery and Athletics.

Swimmers

The Australian Paralympic Swim team finished ninth on the medal table with a total of 2 medals.

Medallists

The Australian Paralympic Swim Team finished second on the medal table with a total of 13 medals at the 1964 Summer Paralympics.

Team Members

The Australian Swim Team won a total of 11 Medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics finishing 6th in the Medal Standings.

Team Members

Men – Eric Boulter, Brian Chambers, Russell Morrison

Women – Pauline English, Pam Foley, Cherrie Ireland, Elizabeth Richards

Medal Tally

The Australian Swim Team finished 10th place in the Medal standings at the 1972 Summer Paralympics with 9 medals:

Team Members

Men – Robert Faulkner, G. Green, John Hind, Roy Kubig, Brian Sullivan

Women – Pauline English, Lyn Michael, Gail Nicholson

Medal Tally

The Australian Swim Team finished in 12th place on the medal tally at the 1976 Summer Paralympics with 10 Medals:

Team Members

Men - Rene Andres, Paul Bird, Peter Carroll, Gary Gudgeon, Peter Hill, Dennis Kennedy, David Manera, David McPherson, Charlie Tapscott

Women – Carolyn Connors, Maureen Pybus

Medal Tally

The Australian Paralympic Swim team finished in 15th place on the medal tally at the 1980 Summer Paralympics with a total of 11 Medals:
The 1984 Summer Paralympics were Australia's most successful medal haul with a final tally of 74 medals.

Team members

Men – Paul Bird, Craig Blackburn, Kingsley Bugarin, Malcom Chalmers, Geoffrey Fowler, David Griffin, Gary Gudgeon, Greg Hammond, Michael Kelly, Alan Morley, Michael Quinn, Wayne Ryding, Robert Staddon, Phillip Tracey, Robert Walden

Women – Helena Brunner, Lynette Coleman, Kerri-Anne Connor, Anne Currie, Therese Donovan, Rosemary Eames, Kerrie Engel, Meredith Evans, Deborah Holland, Ursula King, Tracey Lewis, Jan Miller, Mary-Anne Wallace, Carol Young

Coaches - G. Brown
Officials - J. Blackburn

Medal Tally

The Australian Paralympic Swim team finished in 9th position in the medal standings at the 1984 Summer Paralympics with a total of 74 medals:

Team Members

The Australian Paralympic Swim team finished in 14th position in the medal standings at the 1988 Summer Paralympics with a total of 31 medals:

Team members

Coaches – Anne Green, Phil Jose, Kerry Smith

Officials – Ian McDowell-Jones, Rowenna Toppenberg

Medal tally

The Australian Swim team finished in sixth position in the medal standings at the 1992 Summer Paralympics with a total of 35 medals.

Team members

The Australian Swim team finished in 3rd place in the Medal Standings at the 1996 Summer Paralympics with a total of 44 medals:
A total of 51 swimmers were selected to compete in the Australian Swim Team at the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games.

Team members

Medallists:
The Australian Swim team finished 5th overall in the medal standings at the 2000 Summer Paralympics with 50 medals.
A total of 29 swimmers were selected in the Australian Swim team to compete at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.
Matthew Cowdrey, in his first Paralympic Swim Team appearance, was Australia's best performing swimmer winning 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Team members

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The Australian Paralympic Swim team finished 10th overall with a total of 35 Medals.
A total of 35 swimmers were selected to compete in the Australian Swim team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. This was the largest away team since the 1996 Summer Paralympics. Matthew Cowdrey and Peter Leek were the most successful of the Australian swimmers.
Many of the swimmers were new to the Paralympic team: 8 of the 17 male athletes and 11 of the 18 female athletes were competing in their first Paralympic Team.

Team Members

Swimmers:
Staff:
The Australian Paralympic Swim team finished 7th on the Medal Tally with a total of 29 medals.

Team Members

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Support Staff
Australia finished second on the gold medal table and won a total of 37 medals.
Leading swimmers were – Jacqueline Freney won 8 gold medals, Matthew Cowdrey won 5 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal and Ellie Cole won 4 gold medals and 2 bronze medals.

2016 Rio Paralympics

Team Members

Swimmers::
Staff:
Coaches' - Angelo Basalo, Jan Cameron, Harley Connolly, Nathan Doyle, Lachlan Falvey, Rick Van Der Zant, Yuriy Vdovychenko

Support Staff -
Leading swimmers were: Maddison Elliott five medals including three gold, Ellie Cole six medals including two gold and Lakeisha Patterson six medals including two gold.
Paralympic Games debut