Matthew Renshaw (swimmer)
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Birth name | Matthew Douglas Renshaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1964-10-31) 31 October 1964 (age 59) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Douglas Renshaw (born 31 October 1964) is an Australian former swimmer of the 1980s and early 1990s.[1][2]
Renshaw, a graduate of Sydney's Barker College, trained with the Carlile swimming club.[3]
During the 1980s, Renshaw featured in Australia's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay quartet known as the "Mean Machine", which most famously included Neil Brooks.[4] At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he and his teammates set a games record in the final to win the 4 × 100 m freestyle gold medal. He won a further Commonwealth Games gold medal in Auckland in 1990, swimming the heats for the winning 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team.[5]
Renshaw swam in two World Championships, in Madrid in 1986 and Perth in 1991.[6]
References
- ^ "Knee operation for Renshaw". The Canberra Times. 10 September 1985. p. 18 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Dual captains for swim team". The Canberra Times. 17 December 1990. p. 18 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Sydney club wins well". The Canberra Times. 19 December 1983. p. 19 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Mean Machine angel". The Canberra Times. 18 May 1986. p. 2 (Sport) – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Tucker, Jim (10 March 2018). "Mean Machine won gold medals and Australia's adoration". The Courier-Mail.
- ^ "Hard times for retiring coach". The Canberra Times. 1 January 1991. p. 12 – via National Library of Australia.
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- 1962–1966: 4×110 yards
- 1970–present: 4×100 metres
- 1962: Dickson, Rose, Doak, Phelps (AUS)
- 1966: Dickson, Ryan, Wenden, Windle (AUS)
- 1970: White, Rogers, Wenden, Devenish (AUS)
- 1974: Phillips, Robertson, MacDonald, MacKenzie (CAN)
- 1978: Sawchuk, MacDonald, Smith, Szmidt (CAN)
- 1982: Brewer, Fasala, Delany, Brooks (AUS)
- 1986: Fasala, Stockwell, Renshaw, Brooks (AUS)
- 1990: Baildon, Fydler, Vander-Wal, Cooper (AUS)
- 1994: Baildon, Fydler, Lange, Sheehan (AUS)
- 1998: Callus, Fydler, Thorpe, Klim (AUS)
- 2002: Callus, Pearson, Hackett, Thorpe (AUS)
- 2006: Zandberg, Ferns, Schoeman, Neethling (RSA)
- 2010: Richardson, Sullivan, D'Orsogna, Magnussen (AUS)
- 2014: D'Orsogna, Abood, Magnussen, McEvoy (AUS)
- 2018: McEvoy, Magnussen, Cartwright, Chalmers (AUS)
- 2022: Southam, Incerti, Yang, Chalmers (AUS)