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Swimming at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
VenueRoyal Commonwealth Pool
LocationEdinburgh, Scotland
Dates16 – 25 July 1970

Swimming at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was the ninth appearance of Swimming at the Commonwealth Games. There were 29 swimming events and they took place from 16 to 25 July 1970.[1][2][3][4][5]

The events were held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool, specifically constructed for the Games. Construction began in 1967 and was completed in October 1969.[6]

Australia topped the medal table with 18 gold medals.[7][8][9]

The Royal Commonwealth Pool
The pool in 2015

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Scotland)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia18101442
2 Canada911424
3 England16613
4 Wales1225
5 Isle of Man0011
 New Zealand0011
 Scotland*0011
Totals (7 entries)29292987

Medal winners

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Australia Mike Wenden Australia Greg Rogers Australia Bill Devenish
200 m freestyle Australia Mike Wenden Canada Ralph Hutton Australia Greg Rogers
400 m freestyle Australia Graham White Canada Ralph Hutton Australia Greg Brough
1500 m freestyle Australia Graham Windeatt Australia Max Tavasci New Zealand Mark Treffers
100 m backstroke Canada Bill Kennedy Wales Michael Richards Canada Erik Fish
200 m backstroke Wales Michael Richards England Raymond Terrell Australia Neil Rogers
100 m breaststroke Canada Bill Mahony Canada Peter Cross Australia Paul Jarvie
200 m breaststroke Canada Bill Mahony Australia Paul Jarvie Scotland David Wilkie
100 m butterfly Canada Byron MacDonald Canada Tom Arusoo Canada Ron Jacks
200 m butterfly Canada Tom Arusoo Wales Martyn Woodroffe Australia James Findlay
200 m individual medley Canada George Smith Canada Ken Campbell Wales Martyn Woodroffe
400 m individual medley Canada George Smith England Raymond Terrell Australia James Findlay
4×100 m freestyle relay Australia
Graham White
Gregory Rogers
Michael Wenden
William Devenish 		Canada
George Smith
Ralph Hutton
Robert Kasting
Ron Jacks 		England
Tony Jarvis
Ivan Myall
Malcolm Windeatt
Raymond Terrell
4×100 m freestyle relay Australia
Graham White
Gregory Rogers
Michael Wenden
Bill Devenish 		Canada
George Smith
Ralph Hutton
Robert Kasting
Ron Jacks 		England
Tony Jarvis
Ivan Myall
John Mills
Raymond Terrell
4×200 m freestyle relay Canada
Byron MacDonald
Robert Kasting
Bill Mahony
Bill Kennedy 		Australia
James Findlay
Michael Wenden
Neil Rogers
Paul Jarvie 		Wales
Kevan Moran
Martin Richards
Martyn Woodroffe
Nigel Johnson

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Canada Angela Coughlan Australia Lynne Watson Australia Jenny Watts
200 m freestyle Australia Karen Moras Canada Angela Coughlan Isle of Man Alex Jackson
400 m freestyle Australia Karen Moras Australia Denise Langford Australia Robyn Risson
800 m freestyle Australia Karen Moras Australia Helen Gray Australia Robyn Risson
100 m backstroke Australia Lynne Watson Australia Debra Cain Canada Donna Gurr
200 m backstroke Australia Lynne Watson Canada Donna Gurr Australia Debra Cain
100 m breaststroke Australia Beverley Whitfield England Dorothy Harrison England Christine Jarvis
200 m breaststroke Australia Beverley Whitfield England Dorothy Harrison England Amanda Radnage
100 m butterfly England Diane Lansley Canada Susan Smith Australia Allyson Mabb
200 m butterfly Australia Maree Robinson Australia Jane Comerford Australia Allyson Mabb
200 m individual medley Australia Denise Langford England Shelagh Ratcliffe Australia Diana Rickard
400 m individual medley Australia Denise Langford Australia Gail Neall England Shelagh Ratcliffe
4×100 m freestyle relay Australia
Debra Cain
Denise Langford
Jenny Watts
Lynne Watson 		Canada
Angela Coughlan
Karen James
Linda Hall
Susan Smith 		England
Diana Sutherland
Kathryn Smith
Lesley Allardice
Sally Pickering
4×100 m medley relay Australia
Allyson Mabb
Beverley Whitfield
Denise Langford
Lynne Watson 		England
Diane Lansley
Dorothy Harrison
Kathryn Smith
Sylvia Platt 		Canada
Angela Coughlan
Donna Gurr
Susan Smith
Sylvia Dockerill

Finals (men)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Mike Wenden 53.06
2 Australia Greg Rogers 54.26
3 Australia Bill Devenish 54.28
4 New Zealand Mike J. Borrie 54.57
5 England Tony Jarvis 54.94
6 Canada Robert Kasting 55.10
7 Canada Ralph Hutton 55.39
8 England Malcolm Windeatt 55.65

200m freestyle

Mike Wenden
Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Mike Wenden 1:56.69
2 Canada Ralph Hutton 1:58.45
3 Australia Greg Rogers 1:58.63
4 Australia Graham White 1:58.71
5 New Zealand Mike J. Borrie 2:00.74
6 Canada Ron Jacks 2:00.95
7 Canada Robert Kasting 2:01.21
8 New Zealand Ian J. Curry 2:02.96

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Graham White 4:08.48
2 Canada Ralph Hutton 4:08.77
3 Australia Greg Brough 4:12.16
4 Canada Ron Jacks 4:12.23
5 Australia Richard Michael Wilkinson 4:14.71
6 New Zealand Mike J. Borrie 4:20.35
7 New Zealand Ian J. Curry 4:21.64
8 Canada Peter Harrower 4:23.80

1500m freestyle

Graham Windeatt
Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Graham Windeatt 16:23.82
2 Australia Max Tavasci 16:34.46
3 New Zealand Mark Treffers 16:44.69
4 Australia Greg Brough 17:00.58
5 Canada Peter Harrower 17:28.15
6 Canada Steve Roxborough 17:29.72
7 Wales Martin Richards 17:52.63

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Bill Kennedy 1:01.65
2 Wales Mike Richards 1:01.69
3 Canada Erik Fish 1:02.02
4 Canada Bradley Storey 1:02.33
5 England Jimmy Rogers 1:02.72
6 England Clive Rushton 1:03.24
7 England Tony Davidson 1:03.47
8 Scotland Hamilton Simpson 1:04.71

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Wales Mike Richards 2:14.53
2 England Raymond Terrell 2:15.48
3 Australia Neil Rogers 2:15.63
4 England Jimmy Rogers 2:16.26
5 England Clive Rushton 2:16.30
6 Canada Bradley Storey 2:16.86
7 Scotland Hamilton Simpson 2:17.29
8 New Zealand Barnett R. Bond 2:20.01

100m breaststroke

Bill Mahony
Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Bill Mahony 1:09.0
2 Canada Peter Cross 1:09.4
3 Australia Paul Jarvie 1:10.0
4 Canada Mike Whitaker 1:10.6
5 Scotland David Wilkie 1:11.0
6 England Malcolm O'Connell 1:11.8
7 Northern Ireland Liam Ball 1:12.3
8 Scotland Archibald Young 1:12.3

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Bill Mahony 2:30.29
2 Australia Paul Jarvie 2:30.70
3 Scotland David Wilkie 2:32.87
4 Canada Peter Cross 2:35.68
5 Wales Nigel Johnson 2:35.73
6 Northern Ireland Liam Ball 2:36.94
7 Scotland Gordon Stirton 2:39.12
8 Canada Robert Stoddart 2:39.30

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Byron MacDonald 58.44
2 Canada Tom Arusoo 58.98
3 Canada Ron Jacks 59.01
4 Wales Martyn Woodroffe 59.57
5 Australia Neil Rogers 1:00.27
6 England Alan Widdowson 1:00.33
7 England Michael Bailey 1:00.52
8 England Lennie Norris 1:02.27

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Tom Arusoo 2:08.97
2 Wales Martyn Woodroffe 2:09.14
3 Australia James Findlay 2:09.41
4 Australia Richard Michael Wilkinson 2:10.32
5 Canada Ron Jacks 2:10.57
6 England John Mills 2:12.38
7 Scotland Eric Henderson 2:14.08
8 Canada Byron MacDonald 2:17.30

200m individual medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada George Smith 2:13.72
2 Canada Ken Campbell 2:16.57
3 Wales Martyn Woodroffe 2:16.64
4 Canada Robert Kasting 2:18.24
5 England Raymond Terrell 2:18.55
6 Australia James Findlay 2:18.58
7 Australia Willem Eduard Portier 2:19.30
8 New Zealand Barnett R. Bond 2:23.24

400m individual medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada George Smith 4:48.87
2 England Raymond Terrell 4:49.85
3 Australia James Findlay 4:51.92
4 Australia Willem Eduard Portier 4:53.17
5 Wales Martyn Woodroffe 4:53.78
6 Australia Graham Windeatt 4:56.45
7 Canada Peter Harrower 4:57.61
8 Canada Brian O'Sullivan 5:00.78

4×100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia White, Rogers, Wenden, Devenish 3:36.02
2 Canada Smith, Hutton, Kasting, Jacks 3:37.65
3 England Jarvis, Myall, Windeatt, Terrell 3:41.24
4 Scotland Shore, MacGregor, Souter, Brown 3:46.60
5 New Zealand Bond, Curry, Treffers, Borrie 3:47.64
6 Jamaica Maxwell, Nash, Alexander, Owens 3:53.87
7 Wales Williams, Moran, Richards, Maher 3:53.93
8 Singapore Chan A, Chan R, Seng H. Soh, Heng 4:00.70

4×200m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia White, Rogers, Wenden, Devenish 7:50.77
2 Canada Smith, Hutton, Kasting, Jacks 8:00.69
3 England Jarvis, Myall, Mills, Terrell 8:10.60
4 New Zealand Bond, Curry, Treffers, Borrie 8:11.79
5 Scotland Shore, MacGregor, Souter, Brown 8:24.78
6 Wales Williams, Simpson, Richards, Maher 8:39.81
7 Singapore Chan A, Chan R, Soh, Heng 8:52.12
8 Jamaica Maxwell, Nash, Alexander, Owens 8:56.75

4×100m medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada MacDonald, Kasting, Mahony, Kennedy 4:01.10
2 Australia Findlay, Wenden,Rogers, Jarvie 4:04.55
3 Wales Moran, Richards, Woodroffe, Johnson 4:08.05
4 England Jarvis, Rogers, Norris, O'Connell 4:09.49
5 Scotland Wilkie, Brown, Henderson, Simpson 4:10.74
6 New Zealand Bond, Curry, Treffers, Borrie 4:29.55
7 Papua New Guinea Martin, Mowen, Cluer, Bostock 4:38.48
8 Jamaica Maxwell, Nash, Alexander, Owens 4:39.46

Finals (women)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Angela Coughlan 1:01.22
2 Australia Lynne Watson 1:01.45
3 Australia Jennifer Alice Watts 1:01.80
4 Isle of Man Alex Jackson 1:01.81
5 Australia Debra Cain 1:02.36
6 Canada Karen James 1:02.74
7 New Zealand Catherine J. Whiting 1:03.73
8 England Shelagh Ratcliffe 1:04.32

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Karen Moras 2:09.78
2 Canada Angela Coughlan 2:10.83
3 Isle of Man Alex Jackson 2:13.52
4 Australia Helen Gray 2:13.52
5 Canada Karen James 2:14.73
6 Australia Jennifer Alice Watts 2:16.32
7 New Zealand Judith Wright 2:17.54
8 Canada Sandra Smith 2:17.77

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Karen Moras 4:27.38
2 Australia Denise Langford 4:31.42
3 Australia Robyn Risson 4:39.75
4 Canada Angela Coughlan 4:40.21
5 New Zealand Judith Wright 4:54.98
6 Canada Leslie Cliff 4:46.84
7 Scotland Sally Hogg 4:52.03
8 England Susan Williams 5:01.86

800m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Karen Moras 9:02.45
2 Australia Helen Gray 9:27.48
3 Australia Robyn Risson 9:37.89
4 New Zealand Judith Wright 9:47.54
5 Canada Leslie Cliff 9:56.05
6 Scotland Sally Hogg 9:58.44
7 Scotland Andrea Mackie 10:07.32
8 Canada Sandra Smith 10:21.14

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Lynne Watson 1:07.10
2 Australia Debra Cain 1:07.73
3 Canada Donna Gurr 1:08.87
4 New Zealand Glenda Stirling 1:09.00
5 England Sylvia Platt 1:09.56
6 England Jackie Brown 1:09.86
7 England Wendy Burrell 1:10.62
8 Australia Diana Rickard 1:10.78

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Lynne Watson 2:22.86
2 Canada Donna Gurr 2:24.33
3 Australia Debra Cain 2:26.02
4 Australia Diana Rickard 2:28.23
5 England Wendy Burrell 2:28.43
6 New Zealand Glenda Stirling 2:29.71
7 New Zealand Judith Wright 2:30.59
8 Canada Leslie Cliff 2:37.83

100m breaststroke

Beverley Whitfield
Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Beverley Whitfield 1:17.40
2 England Dorothy Harrison 1:17.60
3 England Christine Jarvis 1:19.83
4 Canada Sylvia Dockerill 1:19.86
5 Canada Rene Robson 1:20.63
6 Wales Christine Davies 1:21.07
7 Wales Pat Wells 1:21.29
8 Canada Jane Wright 1:22.33

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Beverley Whitfield 2:44.12
2 England Dorothy Harrison 2:46.18
3 England Amanda Radnage 2:50.11
4 Canada Rene Robson 2:52.19
5 Scotland Pamela Wilson 2:55.58
6 Canada Jane Wright 2:55.60
7 England Diana Harris 2:57.18

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 England Diane Lansley 1:07.90
2 Canada Susan Smith 1:08.18
3 Australia Allyson Margaret Mabb 1:08.67
4 New Zealand Catherine J. Whiting 1:08.71
5 Australia Jane Comerford 1:08.96
6 Canada Lesley Booth 1:09.29
7 Australia Maree Robinson 1:09.29
8 Canada Jeanne Warren 1:09.72

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Maree Robinson 2:24.67
2 Australia Jane Comerford 2:24.95
3 Australia Allyson Margaret Mabb 2:31.09
4 Canada Susan Smith 2:31.54
5 England Diane Lansley 2:32.54
6 Scotland Sally Hogg 2:33.85
7 Canada Lesley Booth 2:35.41
8 England Gillian Treers 2:36.75

200m individual medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Denise Langford 2:28.89
2 England Shelagh Ratcliffe 2:29.65
3 Australia Diana Rickard 2:30.80
4 Canada Susan Smith 2:30.82
5 New Zealand Susan Hunter 2:33.30
6 Canada Shirley Roulston 2:35.64
7 England Sharon Anslow 2:36.04
8 Australia Gail Neall 2:36.78

400m individual medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Denise Langford 5:10.74
2 Australia Gail Neall 5:15.82
3 England Shelagh Ratcliffe 5:17.89
4 New Zealand Susan Hunter 5:20.10
5 Canada Susan Smith 5:25.85
6 Canada Jeanne Warren 5:26.99
7 New Zealand Judith Wright 5:27.12
8 England Sharon Anslow 5:35.19

4×100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Cain, Langford, Watts, Watson 4:06.41
2 Canada Coughlan, James, Hall, Smith 4:12.16
3 England Sutherland, Smith, Allardice, Pickering 4:14.90
4 New Zealand Crawford, Wright, Hunter, Whiting 4:15.44
5 Scotland Brown, Flynn, Fenton, Hogg 4:23.66
6 Wales Price, Davies, Bowen, Jones, 4:27.26
7 Singapore Tseng, Keenan, Joo, Chan 4:43.66

4×100m medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Mabb, Whitfield, Langfod, Watson 4:30.66
2 England Lansley, Harrison, Smith, Platt 4:38.94
3 Canada Coughlan, Gurr, Smith, Dockerill 4:39.65
4 New Zealand Stirling, Crawford, Williams, Whiting 4:44.81
5 Scotland Armour, Stewart, Brown, Hogg 4:51.49
6 Wales Stephens, Davies, Comins, Price 4:59.09
7 Singapore Chan, Tan, Joo, Keenan 5:00.71

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Twelve teenage girl swimmers are in Scotland Games team". The Scotsman. 27 May 1970. p. 26. Retrieved 18 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Edinburgh 1970". Team Scotland. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  4. ^ "Fitness Warning to Boxers". Daily Record. 27 May 1970. p. 18. Retrieved 16 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "They'll carry Scotland's hopes". Aberdeen Evening Express. 16 June 1970. p. 11. Retrieved 16 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Its a First for Scotland at IXth Commonwealth Games". Leven Mail. 19 February 1969. p. 19. Retrieved 16 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
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