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Australian swimmer
Full name Michael Vincent Wenden Nickname(s) "Mick", "Mike" National team Australia Born (1949-11-17 ) 17 November 1949 (age 74)
Sydney , New South Wales Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) Weight 76 kg (168 lb) Sport
Swimming Strokes
Freestyle
Michael Vincent Wenden ,
AM ,
MBE (born 17 November 1949) is a champion
swimmer who represented Australia in the
1968 Summer Olympics and
1972 Summer Olympics . In 1968 he won four medals: gold in both the 100- and 200-metre freestyle (setting world records in each) and a silver and a bronze in freestyle relays.
[1]
Wenden was inducted into the
International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1979.
[2] He was one of the eight bearers of the
Olympic Flag at the opening ceremony of the
2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Wenden was appointed an MBE in 1969
[3] and made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the
2006 Australia Day Honours for "service to the Olympic movement as an administrator and competitor".
[4]
Wenden holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the
University of New South Wales . His daughter Karen Baildon (née Wenden) competed in swimming at the Queensland state level and won the
1989 Miss Universe Miss Photogenic title.
[5] She is married to Olympic swimmer
Andrew Baildon .
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100 yards 100 metres Intercalated Games
1930 – 1934: 100 yards
1938 – 1966: 110 yards
1970 – present: 100 metres
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 )
1970:
White ,
Rogers ,
Wenden ,
Devenish (
AUS )
1974:
Kulasalu ,
Wenden ,
Nay ,
Badger (
AUS )
1978:
Brewer ,
Morgan ,
Metzker ,
McKeon (
AUS )
1982:
McGufficke ,
McKeon ,
Rowe ,
Brewer (
AUS )
1986:
Armstrong ,
Dale ,
Gleria ,
Stachewicz (
AUS )
1990:
Lord ,
Brown ,
Roberts ,
Stachewicz (
AUS )
1994:
Housman ,
Perkins ,
Roberts ,
Dunn (
AUS )
1998:
Kowalski ,
Thorpe ,
Dunn ,
Klim (
AUS )
2002:
Hackett ,
Dunne ,
Cram ,
Thorpe (
AUS )
2006 :
Burnett ,
Scotcher ,
Milwain ,
Davenport (
ENG )
2010 :
Fraser-Holmes ,
Ffrost ,
Napoleon ,
Monk (
AUS )
2014 :
McEvoy ,
McKeon ,
McKendry ,
Fraser-Holmes (
AUS )
2018 :
Graham ,
Chalmers ,
Winnington ,
Horton (
AUS )
2022 :
Winnington ,
Southam ,
Incerti ,
Horton (
AUS )