Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained
| Noc: | AUS |
| Nocname: | Australian Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Location: | Atlanta |
| Competitors: | 417 (250 men, 167 women) |
| Sports: | 26 |
| Flagbearer: | Andrew Hoy (opening)
Mike McKay (closing) |
| Rank: | 7 |
| Gold: | 9 |
| Silver: | 9 |
| Bronze: | 23 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| See also: | 1906 Intercalated Games
(1908–1912) |
Australia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Australia sent 417 athletes, 250 men and 167 women, to the Atlanta Games.[1]
An Australian segment was featured in the closing ceremony, as Australia was to host the next edition of the Summer Olympics in Sydney four years later.
Medalists
Gold
- Wendy Schaeffer, Phillip Dutton, Andrew Hoy, and Gillian Rolton - equestrian, three-day event team competition
- Michelle Andrews, Alyson Annan, Louise Dobson, Renita Farrell, Juliet Haslam, Rechelle Hawkes, Clover Maitland, Karen Marsden, Jenn Morris, Nova Peris-Kneebone, Jackie Pereira, Katrina Powell, Lisa Powell, Danni Roche, Kate Starre, and Liane Tooth - field hockey, women's tournament
- James Tomkins, Drew Ginn, Nicholas Green, and Mike McKay - rowing, men's coxless fours
- Kate Slatter and Megan Still - rowing, women's coxless pairs
- Michael Diamond - shooting, men's trap shooting
- Russell Mark - shooting, men's double trap
- Kieren Perkins - swimming, men's 1500m freestyle
- Susie O'Neill - swimming, women's 200m butterfly
- Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde - tennis, men's doubles
Silver
- Cathy Freeman - athletics, women's 400 metres
- Louise McPaul - athletics, women's javelin throw
- Michelle Ferris - cycling, women's sprint
- Rob Scott and David Weightman - rowing, men's coxless pairs
- Daniel Kowalski - swimming, men's 1500m freestyle
- Scott Miller - swimming, men's 100m butterfly
- Petria Thomas - swimming, women's 200m butterfly
- Nicole Stevenson, Susie O'Neill, Samantha Riley, Sarah Ryan, Helen Denman (heats), and Angela Kennedy (heats) - swimming, women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Mitch Booth and Andrew Landenberger - sailing, men's Tornado
Bronze
- Michele Timms, Allison Tranquilli, Jenny Whittle, Fiona Robinson, Shelley Sandie, Rachael Sporn, Michelle Chandler, Trisha Fallon, Robyn Maher, Carla Boyd, Michelle Brogan, and Sandy Brondello - basketball, women's tournament
- Clint Robinson - canoeing, men's K1 1000m kayak singles
- Danny Collins and Andrew Trim - canoeing, men's 500m kayak pairs
- Katrin Borchert and Anna Wood - canoeing, women's K2 500m kayak pairs
- Bradley McGee - cycling, men's 4000m individual pursuit
- Bradley McGee, Stuart O'Grady, Tim O'Shannessey, and Dean Woods - cycling, men's 4000m team pursuit
- Stuart O'Grady - cycling, men's points race
- Lucy Tyler-Sharman - cycling, women's points race
- Stuart Carruthers, Baeden Choppy, Stephen Davies, Damon Diletti, Lachlan Dreher, Lachlan Elmer, Brendan Garard, Paul Gaudoin, Mark Hager, Paul Lewis, Grant Smith, Matthew Smith, Daniel Sproule, Jay Stacy, Michael York and Ken Wark - field hockey, men's tournament
- Ronald Snook, Duncan Free, Bo Hanson, and Janusz Hooker - rowing, men's quadruple sculls
- Anthony Edwards and Bruce Hick - rowing, men's lwt double scull
- Rebecca Joyce and Virginia Lee - rowing, women's lwt double scull
- Deserie Huddleston - shooting, women's double trap
- Natalie Ward, Brooke Wilkins, Nicole Richardson, Melanie Roche, Natalie Titcume, Malina Milson, Tracey Mosley, Haylea Petrie, Joyce Lester, Sally McDermid, Francine McRae, Suzanne Fairhurst, Tanya Harding, Jennifer Holliday, Carolyn Crudgington, Kerry Dienelt, Peta Edebone, Belinda Ashworth, Joanne Brown, and Kim Cooper - softball, women's tournament
- Daniel Kowalski - swimming, men's 200m freestyle
- Daniel Kowalski - swimming, men's 400m freestyle
- Scott Goodman - swimming, men's 200m butterfly
- Phil Rogers, Steven Dewick, Scott Miller, Michael Klim, and Toby Haenen (heats) - swimming, men's 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Samantha Riley - swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
- Emma Johnson, Susie O'Neill, Julia Greville, Nicole Stevenson, and Lise Mackie (heats) - swimming, women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
- Natalie Cook and Kerri Ann Pottharst - volleyball, women's beach volleyball
- Stefan Botev - weightlifting, men's super heavyweight (> 108 kg)
- Colin Beashel and David Giles - Sailing, men's Star
Archery
See main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In the seventh Olympic archery competition that Australia contested, the nation sent three men and three women. Matthew Gray had the nation's only individual win, though the men's team won twice in the team round before being defeated in the semifinal and the bronze medal match.
Women's individual competition:
Men's individual competition:
Men's team competition:
- Gray, Fear, and Fairweather → Bronze medal match, 4th place (2-2)
Athletics
See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's 100 metres
- Rod Mapstone Qualification - 10.56 (6th) (→ did not advance)
- Paul Henderson
- Qualification - 10.52 (5th) (→ did not advance)
Men's 200 metres
- Steve Brimacombe
- Qualification - 20.53 (3rd)
- Semi-finals - 20.38 (5th) (→ did not advance)
Men's 400 metres
- Paul Greene
- Qualification - 46.12 (3rd)
- Quarter-finals - 46.22 (8th) (→ did not advance)
- Mark Ladbrook
- Qualification - 46.28 (5th) (→ did not advance)
- Michael Joubert
- Qualification - 46.30 (5th) (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
- Paul Byrne
- Qualification - 1:47.05 (3rd)
- Semi-Finals - 1:47.58 (6th) (→ did not advance)
Men's 1,500 metres
- Paul Cleary
- Qualification - 3:52.85 (→ did not advance)
Men's 5,000 metres
- Shaun Creighton
- Qualification - 14:04.08
- Semifinal - 13:55.23 (→ did not advance)
- Julian Paynter
- Qualification - 14:00.25
- Semifinal - 14:23.60 (→ did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
Men's 4 × 100 m relay
Men's 4 × 400 m relay
Men's 110m hurdles
- Kyle Vander Kuyp
- Heat - 13.32 (1st)
- Quarter-final - 13.49 (3rd)
- Semi-final - 13.38 (4th)
- Final - 13.40 (7th)
Men's 400m hurdles
Men's 3,000 metres steeplechase
- Chris Unthank
- Heat - 8:31.86
- Semifinals - 8:25.59 (→ did not advance)
Men's decathlon
Men's marathon
Men's 20 km walk
Men's 50 km walk
Men's hammer throw
Men's high jump
- Tim Forsyth
- Qualification - 2.28m (1st)
- Final - 2.32m (7th)
- Chris Anderson Qualification - 2.15 (27th → did not advance)
Men's triple jump
Men's pole vault
- Simon Arkell
- Qualification - no mark (→ did not advance)
- James Miller
- Qualification - 5.60m (→ did not advance)
Men's javelin throw
Women's 10,000 metres
- Susan Hobson
- Qualification - 32:25.13
- Final - 32:47.71 (→ 17th place)
- Kylie Risk
- Qualification - did not finish (→ did not advance)
Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Women's long jump
Women's discus throw
Women's javelin throw
- Louise McPaul
- Qualification - 62.32m
- Final - 65.54m (→ Silver medal)
- Joanna Stone
- Qualification - 58.54m (→ did not advance)
Women's heptathlon
Women's marathon
Women's 10 km walk
Badminton
See main article: Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's singles
Men's doubles
Women's singles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Baseball
See main article: Baseball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's tournament
Australia made its first appearance in the official Olympic baseball tournament in 1996. The team won two of its preliminary round games, against Korea and Japan, but lost the other five. The Australians' record put them in a three-way tie for fifth, with all three teams eliminated from contention and the tie-breaker rules used only to formally place the three teams. Australia came out on the bottom of that tie-breaker, and ended up in seventh place.
Basketball
See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's tournament
See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.
- Preliminary round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal match
Women's tournament
See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.
- Team roster
- Preliminary round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal match
Beach volleyball
Boxing
See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's flyweight (51 kg)
Men's bantamweight (54 kg)
Men's featherweight (57 kg)
- Robert Peden
- First round - defeated Mohamed Achik (Morocco), 15-7
- Second round - lost to Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria), 8-20
Men's light welterweight (63,5 kg)
Men's light welterweight (67 kg)
Men's light middleweight (71 kg)
Men's middleweight (75 kg)
- Justann Crawford
- First round - defeated Sackey Shivute (Namibia), 12-3
- Second round - lost to Alexander Lebziak (Russia), referee stopped contest in third round
Men's light heavyweight (81 kg)
Canoeing
See main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Slalom
Men's C-1
Men's C-2
Men's K-1
Women's K-1
Sprint
Men's K-1 500 metres
- Cameron McFadzean
- Qualifying heat: 1:42.160 - 2nd
- Semi final: 1:41.083 - 4th
- Final: 1:41.023 - 9th
Men's K-1 1000 metres
- Clint Robinson
- Qualifying heat: 3:44.768 - 2nd
- Semi final: 3:43.657 - 1st
- Final: 3:29.713 - 3rd
Men's K-2 500 metres
Men's K-2 1000 metres
Men's K-4 1000 metres
Women's K-1 500 metres
- Katrin Borchert
- Qualifying heat: 1:53.767 - 1st
- Semi final: 1:51.142 - 5th
- Final: 1:50.811 - 7th
Women's K-2 500 metres
- Anna Wood and Katrin Borchert
- Qualifying heat: 1:43.633 - 2nd
- Semi final: 1:43.729 - 2nd
- Final: 1:40.641 - 3rd
Women's K-4 500 metres
Cycling
See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Road competition
Men's individual time trial
Women's individual road race
- Kathryn Watt
- Final - 02:37:06 (→ 9th place)
- Anna Wilson
- Final - 02:37:06 (→ 17th place)
- Tracey Watson
- Final - 02:42:35 (→ 39th place)
Women's individual time trial
- Kathryn Watt
- Final - 37:53 (→ 4th place)
- Anna Wilson
- Final - 38:50 (→ 10th place)
Track competition
Men's 1,000m time trial
Men's points race
Mountain bike
Men's cross country
Women's cross country
Diving
See main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m springboard
- Michael Murphy
- Preliminary heat - 419.13
- Semi final - 220.08
- Final - 420.87 (→ 6th place)
- Russell Butler
- Preliminary heat - 305.79 (→ did not advance, 28th place)
Women's 3m springboard
- Jodie Rogers
- Preliminary heat - 242.19
- Semi final - 204.18 (→ did not advance, 15th place)
- Loudy Tourky
- Preliminary heat - 229.11 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
Women's 10m platform
- Vyninka Arlow
- Preliminary heat - 243.57 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
- Vanessa Baker
- Preliminary heat - 225.84 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
Equestrian
Individual dressage
- Mary Hanna
- Grand Prix Test: 1644 points - 24th
- Grand Prix Special 2nd qualifier: Total score 130.09 - 24th - did not advance
Individual eventing
- Nikki Bishop
- Dressage: 520 points - 3rd
- Cross country: disqualified - eliminated
- David Green
- Dressage: 491 points - 8th
- Cross country: did not finish - retired
- Andrew Hoy
- Dressage: 413+2 points - 29th
- Cross country: total points 49.2 - 14th
- Show jumping: penalty points 0 - 1st
- Final result: 112.60 - 11th
Team eventing
Individual jumping
- David Cooper
- Total score: 88.25 - 71st
- Russell Johnstone
- Total score: 48.00 - 61st
- Jennifer Parlevliet
- Total score: Did not finish
- Vicki Roycroft
- Total score: 40.00 - 55th
Team jumping
- Jennifer Parlevliet, Vicki Roycroft, David Cooper and Russell Johnstone
- Total score: 129.00 - 19th
Fencing
See main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman represented Australia in 1996.
- Women's épée
Football
See main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's tournament
- France - Australia 2-0
- Australia - Saudi Arabia 2-1
- Spain - Australia 3-2
Squad
Gymnastics
See main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's competitions
- Brennon Dowrick
- Artistic individual all-around: 35th
- Floor: 83rd
- Horizontal bar: 53rd
- Parallel bars: 56th
- Pommel horse: 45th
- Rings: 69th
- Vault: 92nd
- Bret Hudson
- Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 51st
- Floor: 75th
- Horizontal bar: 75th
- Parallel bars: 55th
- Pommel horse: 73rd
- Rings: 78th
- Vault: 55th
Women's competitions
- Joanna Hughes
- Artistic individual all-around: 34th
- Artistic team all-around: 10th
- Balance beam: 62nd
- Floor: 38th
- Uneven bars: 76th
- Vault: 41st
- Nicole Kantek
- Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 88th
- Artistic team all-around: 10th
- Balance beam: 93rd
- Floor: 77th
- Uneven bars: 95th
- Vault: 70th
- Kirsty Leigh-Brown
- Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 104th
- Ruth Moniz
- Artistic individual all-around: 35th
- Artistic team all-around: 10th
- Balance beam: 30th
- Floor: 80th
- Uneven bars: 40th
- Vault: 84th
- Lisa Moro
- Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 77th
- Artistic team all-around: 10th
- Balance beam: 47th
- Floor: 46th
- Uneven bars: 35th
- Vault: 96th
- Lisa Skinner
- Artistic individual all-around: 36th
- Artistic team all-around: 10th
- Balance beam: 42nd
- Floor: 49th
- Uneven bars: 50th
- Vault: 72nd
- Jenny Smith
- Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 53rd
- Artistic team all-around: 10th
- Balance beam: 58th
- Floor: 59th
- Uneven bars: 81st
- Vault: 53rd
Hockey
See main article: Field hockey at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's tournament
- Preliminary round (Group B)
- Australia - South Africa 1-1
- Australia - South Korea 3-2
- Australia - The Netherlands 2-3
- Australia - Malaysia 5-1
- Australia - Great Britain 2-0
- Semi finals
- Bronze medal game
- Australia - Germany 3-2 (→ Bronze medal)
- Team roster
- Head coach: Frank Murray
Women's tournament
- Preliminary round robin
- Australia - Spain 4-0
- Australia - Argentina 7-1
- Australia - Germany 1-0
- Australia - South Korea 3-3
- Australia - Great Britain 1-0
- Australia - United States 4-0
- Australia - The Netherlands 4-0
- Final
- Australia - South Korea 3-1 (→ Gold medal)
- Team roster
- Head Coach: Ric Charlesworth
Judo
See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Modern pentathlon
See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's individual competition:
- Alexander Johnson → 3697 pts, 32nd place
Rowing
See main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Sailing
See main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Shooting
See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Softball
See main article: Softball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Women's tournament
- Preliminary round robin
- Lost to PR China (0:6)
- Defeated Chinese Taipei (4:0)
- Lost to Puerto Rico (0:2)
- Defeated Netherlands (1:0)
- Defeated Japan (10:0)
- Defeated United States (2:1)
- Defeated Canada (5:2)
- Semifinals
- Bronze medal match
- Lost to PR China (2:4) → Bronze medal
- Team roster
Swimming
See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's competitions
50m freestyle
100m freestyle
200m freestyle
200m freestyle
1500m freestyle
100m backstroke
200m backstroke
100m breaststroke
- Phil Rogers
- Heat - 1:01.80
- Final - 1:01.64 (→ 5th place)
200m breaststroke
100m butterfly
200m butterfly
200m individual medley
400m individual medley
- Matthew Dunn
- Heat - 4:19.51
- Final - 4:16.66 (→ 4th place)
- Trent Steed
- Heat - 4:24.39
- B-Final - 4:29.35 (→ 15th place)
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay
Women's competitions
50m freestyle
100m freestyle
- Sarah Ryan
- Heat - 56.07
- Final - 55.85 (→ 6th place)
200m freestyle
400m freestyle
800m freestyle
100m backstroke
- Nicole Stevenson
- Heat - 1:02.50
- Final - 1:02.70 (→ 7th place)
- Elli Overton
- Heat - 1:03.88
- B-Final - 1:03.69 (→ 14th place)
200m backstroke
- Nicole Stevenson
- Heat - 2:16.71 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
100m butterfly
200m butterfly
200m individual medley
400m individual medley
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay
Table tennis
See main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Tennis
See main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Women's singles tournament
Weightlifting
See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's light-heavyweight ( - 83 kg)
Wrestling
See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Australia at the 1996 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044223/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/AUS/summer/1996/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-05 . sports-reference.com.
