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.
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.
Australia topped the medal table with 12 gold medals.
Medal table
Medallists Men 100 m freestyle Michael Wenden Bruce Robertson Brian Phillips200 m freestyle Steve Badger Bruce Robertson Michael Wenden400 m freestyle John Kulasalu Brad Cooper Steve Badger1500 m freestyle Steve Holland Mark Treffers Steve Badger100 m backstroke Mark Tonelli Steve Pickell Brad Cooper200 m backstroke Brad Cooper Mark Tonelli Robert Williams100 m breaststroke David Leigh David Wilkie Paul Naisby200 m breaststroke David Wilkie David Leigh Paul Naisby100 m butterfly Neil Rogers Byron MacDonald Bruce Robertson200 m butterfly Brian Brinkley Ross Seymour John Coutts200 m individual medley David Wilkie Brian Brinkley Gary MacDonald400 m individual medley Mark Treffers Brian Brinkley Raymond Terrell4×100 m freestyle relay Brian PhillipsBruce RobertsonGary MacDonaldIan MacKenzieMichael WendenNeil RogersPeter CoughlanRoss Patterson Brian BrinkleyColin CunninghamKeith WaltonRaymond Terrell 4×200 m freestyle relay John KulasaluMichael WendenRobert NaySteve Badger Brian BrinkleyColin CunninghamNeil DexterRaymond Terrell Bruce RobertsonGary MacDonaldIan MacKenzieJim Fowlie 4×100 m medley relay Brian PhillipsBruce RobertsonSteve PickellWilliam Mahony Mark TonelliMichael WendenNeil RogersNigel Cluer Brian BrinkleyColin CunninghamDavid LeighStephen Nash
Women 100 m freestyle Sonya Gray Gail Amundrud Judy Wright200 m freestyle Sonya Gray Jenny Turrall Gail Amundrud400 m freestyle Jenny Turrall Wendy Quirk Jaynie Parkhouse800 m freestyle Jaynie Parkhouse Jenny Turrall Rosemary Milgate100 m backstroke Wendy Cook Donna-Marie Gurr Linda Young200 m backstroke Wendy Cook Sandra Yost Donna-Marie Gurr100 m breaststroke Christine Gaskell Marian Stuart Sandra Dickie200 m breaststroke Pat Beavan Beverley Whitfield Allison Smith100 m butterfly Patti Stenhouse Kim Wickham Sandra Yost200 m butterfly Sandra Yost Patti Stenhouse Gail Neall200 m individual medley Leslie Cliff Becky Smith Susan Hunter400 m individual medley Leslie Cliff Becky Smith Susan Hunter4 × 100 m freestyle relay Anne JardinBecky SmithGail AmundrudJudy Wright Debra CainJennifer TurrallSonya GraySuzy AndersonAlyson JonesAvis WillingtonLesley AllardiceSusan Edmondson4 × 100 m medley relayGail AmundrudMarian StuartPatti StenhouseWendy Cook Beverley WhitfieldDebra CainLinda YoungSonya Gray Gillian FordyceKim WickhamMorag McGlashanSandra Dickie
Finals (men) 100m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Michael Wenden 52.732 Bruce Robertson 53.783 Brian Phillips 54.114 Neil Rogers 54.315 Colin Cunningham 54.54 6 Ross Donald Patterson 54.587 Andrew Hunter 54.918 Keith Walton 55.26
200m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Steve Badger 1:56.722 Bruce Robertson 1:57.21 3 Michael Wenden 1:57.834 Robert Nay 1:57.845 Ian MacKenzie 1:57.966 Brett Naylor 1:59.357 Gordon Downie 1:59.398 Wilson Mills 1:59.53
400m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 John Kulasalu 4:01.442 Brad Cooper 4:02.123 Steve Badger 4:04.074 Mark Treffers 4:05.805 Brett Naylor 4:10.886 Alan McClatchey 4:12.327 Jim Fowlie 4:13.388 Neil Dexter 4:13.72
1500m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Steve Holland 15:34.732 Mark Treffers 15:59.82 3 Steve Badger 16:22.234 James Carter 16:34.70 5 Alan McClatchey 16:48.716 Jim Fowlie 16:53.437 Bruce Rogers 17:02.51 8 Brad Cooper 17:03.20
100m backstroke PosAthleteTime1 Mark Tonelli 59.652 Steve Pickell 59.88 3 Brad Cooper 60.174 Ian MacKenzie 60.32 5 Colin Cunningham 60.986 Robert Williams 61.937 Ian Hughes 62.71 8 Robbie Howard 62.77
200m backstroke PosAthleteTime1 Brad Cooper 2:06.312 Mark Tonelli 2:09.473 Robert Williams 2:09.834 Colin Cunningham 2:11.205 Ian MacKenzie 2:13.166 Steve Hardy 2:12.067 Paul Hughes 2:12.368 Ian Hughes 2:12.66
100m breaststroke PosAthleteTime1 David Leigh 1:06.522 David Wilkie 1:07.37 3 Paul Naisby 1:08.524 Peter Hrdlitschka 1:09.925 Nigel Cluer 1:10.076 Alan Thompson 1:10.697 Gregory Bush 1:11.918 Michael Creswick 1:15.43
200m breaststroke PosAthleteTime1 David Wilkie 2:24.422 David Leigh 2:24.753 Paul Naisby 2:27.364 Bill Mahony 2:27.625 Gregory Bush 2:30.136 Nigel Cluer 2:30.567 Peter Hrdlitschka 2:32.92 8 Michael Creswick 2:37.31
100m butterfly PosAthleteTime1 Neil Rogers 56.582 Byron Macdonald 56.833 Bruce Robertson 56.84 4 Kenneth Ross Seymour 57.435 Brian Phillips 57.996 Colin Cunningham 59.167 Stephen Nash 59.458 Martin Edwards 59.60
200m butterfly PosAthleteTime1 Brian Brinkley 2:04.512 Kenneth Ross Seymour 2:06.643 John Coutts 2:07.034 Lorne Kemmet 2:08.205 Peter Smith 2:08.946 Alan McClatchey 2:09.447 Stephen Nash 2:09.518 Byron Macdonald 2:11.52
200m medley PosAthleteTime1 David Wilkie 2:10.112 Brian Brinkley 2:12.733 Gary MacDonald 2:12.984 Raymond Terrell 2:13.69 5 Nigel Cluer 2:15.006 Rowland Jones 2:17.837 Peter Hrdlitschka 2:17.848 James Carter 2:18.74
400m medley PosAthleteTime1 Mark Treffers 4:35.90 2 Brian Brinkley 4:41.293 Raymond Terrell 4:42.944 Jim Fowlie 4:44.575 James Carter 4:44.836 Paul Hughes 4:48.217 Gary MacDonald 4:49.498 Robert Williams 4:54.34
4 x 100m freestyle relay PosAthleteTime1 Phillips, Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie 3:33.792 Wenden, Rogers, Coughlan, Patterson 3:34.263 Brinkley, Cunningham, Walton, Terrell 3:38.224 McClatchey, Wilkie, Downie, Mills 3:42.915 Fogel, Naylor, Coutts, Johnston 3:45.766 Lewis, Moran, Jones, Maher 3:47.43
4 x 200 freestyle relay PosAthleteTime1 Kulasalu, Wenden, Nay, Badger 7:50.132 Brinkley, Cunningham, Dexter, Terrell 7:52.903 Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie, Fowlie 7:53.384 McClatchey, Downie, Carter, Mills 7:57.855 Naylor, Coutts, Treffers, Johnston 8:01.036 Lewis, Moran, Jones, Maher 8:31.53
4 x 100 medley relay PosAthleteTime1 Phillips, Robertson, Pickell, Mahony 2 Tonelli, Wenden, Rogers, Cluer 3:55.763 Brinkley, Cunningham, Leigh, Nash 4:00.484 Hughes, Wilkie, McClatchey, Downie 4:02.375 Lewis, Culverwell, Maher, Davies 4:13.986 Lewis, Naylor, Toomey, Thorogood 4:14.087 Howard, Hunter, Corry, McGrory 4:22.72
Finals (women) 100m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Sonya Gray 59.132 Gail Amundrud 59.363 Judy Wright 59.464 Anne Jardin 59.855 Jaynie Parkhouse 60.966 Suzy Anderson 61.247 Morag McGlashan 61.258 Jackie Simpson 62.04
200m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Sonya Gray 2:04.27 2 Jenny Turrall 2:06.903 Gail Amundrud 2:07.034 Wendy Quirk 2:07.06 5 Jaynie Parkhouse 2:08.80 6 Brenda Holmes 2:08.87 7 Virginia Rickard 2:09.018 Diane Walker 2:10.02
400m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Jenny Turrall 4:22.09 2 Wendy Quirk 4:22.963 Jaynie Parkhouse 4:23.094 Sally Lockyer 4:24.575 Narelle Moras 4:25.216 Diane Walker 4:33.017 Anne Jardin 4:34.538 Debbie Simpson 4:39.39
800m freestyle PosAthleteTime1 Jaynie Parkhouse 8:58.492 Jenny Turrall 8:58.533 Rosemary Milgate 8:58.594 Sally Lockyer 8:59.20 5 Wendy Quirk 9:05.296 Allison Calder 9:19.197 Brenda Holmes 9:22.038 Debbie Simpson 9:22.22
100m backstroke PosAthleteTime1 Wendy Cook 1:06.37 2 Donna-Marie Gurr 1:06.553 Linda Young 1:07.524 Sue Lewis 1:07.565 Debra Cain 1:07.696 Becky Smith 1:08.037 Susan Hunter 1:09.068 Gillian Fordyce 1:09.18
200m backstroke PosAthleteTime1 Wendy Cook 2:20.372 Sandra Yost 2:22.073 Donna-Marie Gurr 2:23.74 4 Sue Lewis 2:23.855 Linda Young 2:25.736 Susan Hunter 2:26.277 Monique Rodahl 2:27.678 Gillian Fordyce 2:28.37
100m breaststroke PosAthleteTime1 Christine Gaskell 1:16.42 2 Marian Stuart 1:16.613 Sandra Dickie 1:17.174 Pat Beavan 1:17.495 Christine Jarvis 1:17.596 Jane Lowe 1:17.727 Beverley Whitfield 1:17.758 Allison Smith 1:17.85
200m breaststroke PosAthleteTime1 Pat Beavan 2:43.112 Beverley Whitfield 2:43.58 3 Allison Smith 2:45.084 Jane Lowe 2:45.105 Christine Gaskell 2:45.126 Marian Stuart 2:46.967 Sandra Dickie 2:51.64 8 Caroline Tamlyn 2:51.89
100m butterfly PosAthleteTime1 Patti Stenhouse 1:05.382 Kim Wickham 1:05.963 Sandra Yost 1:06.044 Debra Cain 1:06.075 Wendy Quirk 1:06.52 6 Leslie Cliff 1:07.15 7 Vicki Jaensch 1:07.728 Joanne Atkinson 1:08.86
200m butterfly PosAthleteTime1 Sandra Yost 2:20.572 Patti Stenhouse 2:20.663 Gail Neall 2:21.66 4 Leslie Cliff 2:22.105 France Latendresse 2:24.326 Vicki Jaensch 2:24.817 Jean Jeavons 2:26.488 Debbie Ledgerwood 2:28.40
200m medley PosAthleteTime1 Leslie Cliff 2:24.13 2 Becky Smith 2:25.173 Susan Hunter 2:26.184 Wendy Cook 2:27.495 Debra Cain 2:27.976 Susan Richardson 2:28.677 Sally Lockyer 2:28.868 Diane Walker 2:29.62
400m medley PosAthleteTime1 Leslie Cliff 5:01.35 2 Becky Smith 5:03.683 Susan Hunter 5:07.204 Sally Lockyer 5:07.93 5 Susan Richardson 5:08.746 Diane Walker 5:11.827 Brenda Holmes 5:11.868 Gail Neall 5:13.20
4 x 100 freestyle relay PosAthleteTime1 Jardin, Smith, Amundrud, Wright 3:57.142 Cain, Turrall, Gray, Anderson 4:02.373 Jones, Willington, Allardice, Edmondson 4:05.594 D Simpson, Walker, J Simpson, McGlashan 4:06.53 5 Calder, Parkhouse, Hunter, Kennedy 4:06.946 Adams, Parry, Walker, Hurn 4:26.327 J Perrott, Murphy, Probert, R Perrott 4:35.41
4 x 100 medley relay PosAthleteTime1 Amundrud, Stuart, Stenhouse, Cook 4:24.772 Whitfield, Cain, Young, Gray 4:30.553 Fordyce, Wickham, McGlashan, Dickie 4:31.684 Jones, Gaskell, Atkinson, Kelly 4:33.615 Ledgerwood, Lowe, Parkhouse, Rodahl 4:41.54 6 Adams, Walker, Beaven, Hurn 4:41.947 J Perrott, Murphy, Probert, R Perrott 5:11.90
See also Diving at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
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