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Swimming at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games

Swimming at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
VenueQEII Leisure Centre, Queen Elizabeth II Park
LocationChristchurch, New Zealand
Dates24 January to 2 February 1974

Swimming at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was the tenth appearance of Swimming at the Commonwealth Games. There were 29 swimming events and they took place from 24 January to 2 February 1974.[1]

The events were held at the QEII Leisure Centre in Queen Elizabeth II Park and was specifically constructed for the Games. The centre was attached to the east stand of the main Commonwealth Games stadium used for the opening ceremony and athletics.[2]

Australia topped the medal table with 12 gold medals.[3][4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (New Zealand)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia12111033
2 Canada911727
3 England34613
4 Scotland2226
5 New Zealand*2147
6 Wales1001
7 Isle of Man0000
Totals (7 entries)29292987

Medallists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Australia Michael Wenden Canada Bruce Robertson Canada Brian Phillips
200 m freestyle Australia Steve Badger Canada Bruce Robertson Australia Michael Wenden
400 m freestyle Australia John Kulasalu Australia Brad Cooper Australia Steve Badger
1500 m freestyle Australia Steve Holland New Zealand Mark Treffers Australia Steve Badger
100 m backstroke Australia Mark Tonelli Canada Steve Pickell Australia Brad Cooper
200 m backstroke Australia Brad Cooper Australia Mark Tonelli Australia Robert Williams
100 m breaststroke England David Leigh Scotland David Wilkie England Paul Naisby
200 m breaststroke Scotland David Wilkie England David Leigh England Paul Naisby
100 m butterfly Australia Neil Rogers Canada Byron MacDonald Canada Bruce Robertson
200 m butterfly England Brian Brinkley Australia Ross Seymour New Zealand John Coutts
200 m individual medley Scotland David Wilkie England Brian Brinkley Canada Gary MacDonald
400 m individual medley New Zealand Mark Treffers England Brian Brinkley England Raymond Terrell
4×100 m freestyle relay Canada
Brian Phillips
Bruce Robertson
Gary MacDonald
Ian MacKenzie 		Australia
Michael Wenden
Neil Rogers
Peter Coughlan
Ross Patterson 		England
Brian Brinkley
Colin Cunningham
Keith Walton
Raymond Terrell
4×200 m freestyle relay Australia
John Kulasalu
Michael Wenden
Robert Nay
Steve Badger 		England
Brian Brinkley
Colin Cunningham
Neil Dexter
Raymond Terrell 		Canada
Bruce Robertson
Gary MacDonald
Ian MacKenzie
Jim Fowlie
4×100 m medley relay Canada
Brian Phillips
Bruce Robertson
Steve Pickell
William Mahony 		Australia
Mark Tonelli
Michael Wenden
Neil Rogers
Nigel Cluer 		England
Brian Brinkley
Colin Cunningham
David Leigh
Stephen Nash

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Australia Sonya Gray Canada Gail Amundrud Canada Judy Wright
200 m freestyle Australia Sonya Gray Australia Jenny Turrall Canada Gail Amundrud
400 m freestyle Australia Jenny Turrall Canada Wendy Quirk New Zealand Jaynie Parkhouse
800 m freestyle New Zealand Jaynie Parkhouse Australia Jenny Turrall Australia Rosemary Milgate
100 m backstroke Canada Wendy Cook Canada Donna-Marie Gurr Australia Linda Young
200 m backstroke Canada Wendy Cook Australia Sandra Yost Canada Donna-Marie Gurr
100 m breaststroke England Christine Gaskell Canada Marian Stuart Scotland Sandra Dickie
200 m breaststroke Wales Pat Beavan Australia Beverley Whitfield Australia Allison Smith
100 m butterfly Canada Patti Stenhouse Scotland Kim Wickham Australia Sandra Yost
200 m butterfly Australia Sandra Yost Canada Patti Stenhouse Australia Gail Neall
200 m individual medley Canada Leslie Cliff Canada Becky Smith New Zealand Susan Hunter
400 m individual medley Canada Leslie Cliff Canada Becky Smith New Zealand Susan Hunter
4 × 100 m freestyle relay Canada
Anne Jardin
Becky Smith
Gail Amundrud
Judy Wright		 Australia
Debra Cain
Jennifer Turrall
Sonya Gray
Suzy Anderson		 England
Alyson Jones
Avis Willington
Lesley Allardice
Susan Edmondson
4 × 100 m medley relay Canada
Gail Amundrud
Marian Stuart
Patti Stenhouse
Wendy Cook		 Australia
Beverley Whitfield
Debra Cain
Linda Young
Sonya Gray		 Scotland
Gillian Fordyce
Kim Wickham
Morag McGlashan
Sandra Dickie

Finals (men)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Michael Wenden 52.73
2 Canada Bruce Robertson 53.78
3 Canada Brian Phillips 54.11
4 Australia Neil Rogers 54.31
5 England Colin Cunningham 54.54
6 Australia Ross Donald Patterson 54.58
7 Northern Ireland Andrew Hunter 54.91
8 England Keith Walton 55.26

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Steve Badger 1:56.72
2 Canada Bruce Robertson 1:57.21
3 Australia Michael Wenden 1:57.83
4 Australia Robert Nay 1:57.84
5 Canada Ian MacKenzie 1:57.96
6 New Zealand Brett Naylor 1:59.35
7 Scotland Gordon Downie 1:59.39
8 Scotland Wilson Mills 1:59.53

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia John Kulasalu 4:01.44
2 Australia Brad Cooper 4:02.12
3 Australia Steve Badger 4:04.07
4 New Zealand Mark Treffers 4:05.80
5 New Zealand Brett Naylor 4:10.88
6 Scotland Alan McClatchey 4:12.32
7 Canada Jim Fowlie 4:13.38
8 England Neil Dexter 4:13.72

1500m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Steve Holland 15:34.73
2 New Zealand Mark Treffers 15:59.82
3 Australia Steve Badger 16:22.23
4 Scotland James Carter 16:34.70
5 Scotland Alan McClatchey 16:48.71
6 Canada Jim Fowlie 16:53.43
7 Canada Bruce Rogers 17:02.51
8 Australia Brad Cooper 17:03.20

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Mark Tonelli 59.65
2 Canada Steve Pickell 59.88
3 Australia Brad Cooper 60.17
4 Canada Ian MacKenzie 60.32
5 England Colin Cunningham 60.98
6 Australia Robert Williams 61.93
7 Scotland Ian Hughes 62.71
8 Northern Ireland Robbie Howard 62.77

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Brad Cooper 2:06.31
2 Australia Mark Tonelli 2:09.47
3 Australia Robert Williams 2:09.83
4 England Colin Cunningham 2:11.20
5 Canada Ian MacKenzie 2:13.16
6 Canada Steve Hardy 2:12.06
7 Canada Paul Hughes 2:12.36
8 Scotland Ian Hughes 2:12.66

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 England David Leigh 1:06.52
2 Scotland David Wilkie 1:07.37
3 England Paul Naisby 1:08.52
4 Canada Peter Hrdlitschka 1:09.92
5 Australia Nigel Cluer 1:10.07
6 Scotland Alan Thompson 1:10.69
7 Australia Gregory Bush 1:11.91
8 Australia Michael Creswick 1:15.43

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Scotland David Wilkie 2:24.42
2 England David Leigh 2:24.75
3 England Paul Naisby 2:27.36
4 Canada Bill Mahony 2:27.62
5 Australia Gregory Bush 2:30.13
6 Australia Nigel Cluer 2:30.56
7 Canada Peter Hrdlitschka 2:32.92
8 Australia Michael Creswick 2:37.31

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Neil Rogers 56.58
2 Canada Byron Macdonald 56.83
3 Canada Bruce Robertson 56.84
4 Australia Kenneth Ross Seymour 57.43
5 Canada Brian Phillips 57.99
6 England Colin Cunningham 59.16
7 England Stephen Nash 59.45
8 England Martin Edwards 59.60

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 England Brian Brinkley 2:04.51
2 Australia Kenneth Ross Seymour 2:06.64
3 New Zealand John Coutts 2:07.03
4 Canada Lorne Kemmet 2:08.20
5 Australia Peter Smith 2:08.94
6 Scotland Alan McClatchey 2:09.44
7 England Stephen Nash 2:09.51
8 Canada Byron Macdonald 2:11.52

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Scotland David Wilkie 2:10.11
2 England Brian Brinkley 2:12.73
3 Canada Gary MacDonald 2:12.98
4 England Raymond Terrell 2:13.69
5 Australia Nigel Cluer 2:15.00
6 Wales Rowland Jones 2:17.83
7 Canada Peter Hrdlitschka 2:17.84
8 Scotland James Carter 2:18.74

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 New Zealand Mark Treffers 4:35.90
2 England Brian Brinkley 4:41.29
3 England Raymond Terrell 4:42.94
4 Canada Jim Fowlie 4:44.57
5 Scotland James Carter 4:44.83
6 Canada Paul Hughes 4:48.21
7 Canada Gary MacDonald 4:49.49
8 Australia Robert Williams 4:54.34

4 x 100m freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Phillips, Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie 3:33.79
2 Australia Wenden, Rogers, Coughlan, Patterson 3:34.26
3 England Brinkley, Cunningham, Walton, Terrell 3:38.22
4 Scotland McClatchey, Wilkie, Downie, Mills 3:42.91
5 New Zealand Fogel, Naylor, Coutts, Johnston 3:45.76
6 Wales Lewis, Moran, Jones, Maher 3:47.43

4 x 200 freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Kulasalu, Wenden, Nay, Badger 7:50.13
2 England Brinkley, Cunningham, Dexter, Terrell 7:52.90
3 Canada Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie, Fowlie 7:53.38
4 Scotland McClatchey, Downie, Carter, Mills 7:57.85
5 New Zealand Naylor, Coutts, Treffers, Johnston 8:01.03
6 Wales Lewis, Moran, Jones, Maher 8:31.53

4 x 100 medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Phillips, Robertson, Pickell, Mahony
2 Australia Tonelli, Wenden, Rogers, Cluer 3:55.76
3 England Brinkley, Cunningham, Leigh, Nash 4:00.48
4 Scotland Hughes, Wilkie, McClatchey, Downie 4:02.37
5 Wales Lewis, Culverwell, Maher, Davies 4:13.98
6 New Zealand Lewis, Naylor, Toomey, Thorogood 4:14.08
7 Northern Ireland Howard, Hunter, Corry, McGrory 4:22.72

Finals (women)

100m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Sonya Gray 59.13
2 Canada Gail Amundrud 59.36
3 Canada Judy Wright 59.46
4 Canada Anne Jardin 59.85
5 New Zealand Jaynie Parkhouse 60.96
6 Australia Suzy Anderson 61.24
7 Scotland Morag McGlashan 61.25
8 Scotland Jackie Simpson 62.04

200m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Sonya Gray 2:04.27
2 Australia Jenny Turrall 2:06.90
3 Canada Gail Amundrud 2:07.03
4 Canada Wendy Quirk 2:07.06
5 New Zealand Jaynie Parkhouse 2:08.80
6 Canada Brenda Holmes 2:08.87
7 Australia Virginia Rickard 2:09.01
8 Scotland Diane Walker 2:10.02

400m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Jenny Turrall 4:22.09
2 Canada Wendy Quirk 4:22.96
3 New Zealand Jaynie Parkhouse 4:23.09
4 Australia Sally Lockyer 4:24.57
5 Australia Narelle Moras 4:25.21
6 Scotland Diane Walker 4:33.01
7 Canada Anne Jardin 4:34.53
8 Scotland Debbie Simpson 4:39.39

800m freestyle

Pos Athlete Time
1 New Zealand Jaynie Parkhouse 8:58.49
2 Australia Jenny Turrall 8:58.53
3 Australia Rosemary Milgate 8:58.59
4 Australia Sally Lockyer 8:59.20
5 Canada Wendy Quirk 9:05.29
6 New Zealand Allison Calder 9:19.19
7 Canada Brenda Holmes 9:22.03
8 Scotland Debbie Simpson 9:22.22

100m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Wendy Cook 1:06.37
2 Canada Donna-Marie Gurr 1:06.55
3 Australia Linda Young 1:07.52
4 Australia Sue Lewis 1:07.56
5 Australia Debra Cain 1:07.69
6 Canada Becky Smith 1:08.03
7 New Zealand Susan Hunter 1:09.06
8 Scotland Gillian Fordyce 1:09.18

200m backstroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Wendy Cook 2:20.37
2 Australia Sandra Yost 2:22.07
3 Canada Donna-Marie Gurr 2:23.74
4 Australia Sue Lewis 2:23.85
5 Australia Linda Young 2:25.73
6 New Zealand Susan Hunter 2:26.27
7 New Zealand Monique Rodahl 2:27.67
8 Scotland Gillian Fordyce 2:28.37

100m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 England Christine Gaskell 1:16.42
2 Canada Marian Stuart 1:16.61
3 Scotland Sandra Dickie 1:17.17
4 Wales Pat Beavan 1:17.49
5 England Christine Jarvis 1:17.59
6 New Zealand Jane Lowe 1:17.72
7 Australia Beverley Whitfield 1:17.75
8 Australia Allison Smith 1:17.85

200m breaststroke

Pos Athlete Time
1 Wales Pat Beavan 2:43.11
2 Australia Beverley Whitfield 2:43.58
3 Australia Allison Smith 2:45.08
4 New Zealand Jane Lowe 2:45.10
5 England Christine Gaskell 2:45.12
6 Canada Marian Stuart 2:46.96
7 Scotland Sandra Dickie 2:51.64
8 England Caroline Tamlyn 2:51.89

100m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Patti Stenhouse 1:05.38
2 Scotland Kim Wickham 1:05.96
3 Australia Sandra Yost 1:06.04
4 Australia Debra Cain 1:06.07
5 Canada Wendy Quirk 1:06.52
6 Canada Leslie Cliff 1:07.15
7 Australia Vicki Jaensch 1:07.72
8 England Joanne Atkinson 1:08.86

200m butterfly

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Sandra Yost 2:20.57
2 Canada Patti Stenhouse 2:20.66
3 Australia Gail Neall 2:21.66
4 Canada Leslie Cliff 2:22.10
5 Canada France Latendresse 2:24.32
6 Australia Vicki Jaensch 2:24.81
7 England Jean Jeavons 2:26.48
8 New Zealand Debbie Ledgerwood 2:28.40

200m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Leslie Cliff 2:24.13
2 Canada Becky Smith 2:25.17
3 New Zealand Susan Hunter 2:26.18
4 Canada Wendy Cook 2:27.49
5 Australia Debra Cain 2:27.97
6 England Susan Richardson 2:28.67
7 Australia Sally Lockyer 2:28.86
8 Scotland Diane Walker 2:29.62

400m medley

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Leslie Cliff 5:01.35
2 Canada Becky Smith 5:03.68
3 New Zealand Susan Hunter 5:07.20
4 Australia Sally Lockyer 5:07.93
5 England Susan Richardson 5:08.74
6 Scotland Diane Walker 5:11.82
7 Canada Brenda Holmes 5:11.86
8 Australia Gail Neall 5:13.20

4 x 100 freestyle relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Jardin, Smith, Amundrud, Wright 3:57.14
2 Australia Cain, Turrall, Gray, Anderson 4:02.37
3 England Jones, Willington, Allardice, Edmondson 4:05.59
4 Scotland D Simpson, Walker, J Simpson, McGlashan 4:06.53
5 New Zealand Calder, Parkhouse, Hunter, Kennedy 4:06.94
6 Wales Adams, Parry, Walker, Hurn 4:26.32
7 Fiji J Perrott, Murphy, Probert, R Perrott 4:35.41

4 x 100 medley relay

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Amundrud, Stuart, Stenhouse, Cook 4:24.77
2 Australia Whitfield, Cain, Young, Gray 4:30.55
3 Scotland Fordyce, Wickham, McGlashan, Dickie 4:31.68
4 England Jones, Gaskell, Atkinson, Kelly 4:33.61
5 New Zealand Ledgerwood, Lowe, Parkhouse, Rodahl 4:41.54
6 Wales Adams, Walker, Beaven, Hurn 4:41.94
7 Fiji J Perrott, Murphy, Probert, R Perrott 5:11.90

See also

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Christchurch 1974". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Queen Elizabeth II Park, Christchurch". Teara.gov. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and diving (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
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