2004 Australian Olympic Team Handbook and Media Guide Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad 2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece, 13-29 August 2004 Mission Statement Members of the Executive 2004 Australian Olympic Team 2 The Australian Olympic Committee, as proud custodian of the Olympic Patron In Chief Chef de Mission movement in Australia, is committed to promoting the Olympic ideals and His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC (Retd) John D Coates AO, LLB values through sport to all Australians. Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia Assistant Chefs de Mission The AOC aims to maximise the potential of Olympians and Olympic-calibre Patron Peter Montgomery OAM, LLB athletes by providing them with support and opportunity, reinforcing their The Rt. Hon John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia Michael V Wenden MBE, B.Com positive role in Australian society as a whole. Lynne Bates President The AOC is committed to helping Australia’s athletes achieve their dreams John D Coates AO, LLB Team Attaché at all Olympic Games. His Excellency Stuart Hume, Australian Ambassador to Greece Vice Presidents Australian Olympic Team Ronald G Harvey CVO AM Team Directors The Australian Olympic Team, as a spirited force, represents the true Peter Montgomery OAM, LLB Bob Elphinston OAM, D.P.E, - Director, Administration essence of what it means to be Australian. The Team links the faces and Michael V Wendon MBE, B.Com - Director, Athlete Services names of past and present athletes across the boundaries of time and IOC Members in Australia Mike Tancred - Director, Media Services distance. R Kevan Gosper AO BA (Hons) Dsc FAIM Prof. Peter Fricker OAM - Director, Medical Services Phil Coles AM Bob Myers - Director, Security The heroic achievements of our athletes are a source of pride and Susan O'Neill OAM Craig Phillips MBA Dip. Teaching (PE) - Director, Support Services inspiration for all Australians. Together, we will celebrate their achievements at the Olympic Games. Secretary General Bob Elphinston D.P.E., OAM Members James E Barry AM, MBE, B.Com Lynne Bates Helen M Brownlee OAM, B.Ed Ian Chesterman B.Com J Douglas Donoghue AM, B.Ec, FCPA Michael V Wenden MBE, B.Com Russell G Withers Damian Brown B.Ed, Grad. Dip. (Sport Bus.) Jacqui Cooper Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, Athens, Greece 3 Message from the President It gives me pride and pleasure to introduce this comprehensive and the rowers Mike McKay and James Tomkins - will be guide to the membership of Australia's team for the 2004 making it five in a row. Another strong reason for pride is the Olympic Games in Athens. It is a talented team, the largest this fact that, with the exception of handball, Australia has qualified nation has ever sent away, and we have high hopes that it will for every sport on the Olympic program. And not only that: we be among the most successful at these Games. Its stated have also qualified for 11 team sports in Athens … more than mission, in fact, is to finish among the top five nations in the any other nation apart from the host country, Greece. overall medal tally - an objective that is clearly within its competence, given performances during the past year. We had tremendous success at the Sydney Games, with 58 medals, 16 of them gold, and a fourth-place medal tally. Every Olympic Games becomes a piece of history - but there is Historically, many host nations have tended to perform quite a already an extra significance to this year's, which return the lot worse in the following Games. On form, I believe we can be modern Games to both the city of their birth and the land of confident that Australia will reverse that trend. Thanks to the their ancient beginnings. It was in 1896 that Athens played host support of the Australian Government and the Australian, state to a modest but ambitious competition that signalled the revival and the territory Institutes of Sport direct to our member sports of Greece's Ancient Olympics. An all-male total of 245 athletes and athletes; the $26 million of income from our Sydney from 15 countries competed in nine sports. The founder of the Olympic Games' legacy; our many world-wide and national modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, had a vision: he wanted sponsors; and, the fundraising efforts of our State Olympic not only to renew those Games of a thousand years before, but Councils' Team Appeal Committees, this is a wonderfully well- to see the modern version of them endure, and prosper. They prepared team. have done so - to such a degree that 10,500 athletes from 201 countries will be competing this time in 28 Olympic sports, I believe it will make all of us very proud, and will honour the watched by a global television audience of four billion. And spirit of our first Olympian, Edwin Flack, who also went to indications are that close to 40 per cent of them will be female. Athens with high hopes. Australia can take great satisfaction in the knowledge that it John D. Coates AO has, like Greece, competed in every Games of the modern era. President, Australian Olympic Committee In that time we have won a total of 349 Olympic medals, 104 Chef de Mission, 2004 Australian Olympic Team of them gold. As someone who is privileged to be leading the Australian team for the fifth consecutive time, I feel proud that two of our competitors in Athens - the horseman Andrew Hoy and the sailor Colin Beashel - are about to embark on their sixth Olympics. Another three - the archer Simon Fairweather 2004 Australian Olympic Team Handbook & Media Guide 4 Table of Contents Australian Olympic Committee. 2 Modern Pentathlon . 176 Message from the President . 3 Rowing . 179 Australia at the Olympic Games . 5 Sailing . 200 Australian Medallists . 6 Shooting . 212 Our own Lion of Athens. 13 Softball . 223 Venue Menu . 14 Swimming . 231 Country Codes . 15 Synchronised Swimming . 251 Archery . 16 Table Tennis. 254 Athletics . 21 Taekwondo . 260 Badminton. 44 Tennis . 264 Baseball . 49 Triathlon . 269 Basketball . 60 Volleyball. 274 Beach Volleyball . 73 Water Polo. 282 Boxing. 80 Weightlifting . 295 Canoeing . 87 Wrestling . 298 Cycling. 97 Team Executive . 302 Diving . 111 Team Administration . 303 Equestrian . 116 Time Comparison, Licensees . 304 Fencing . 122 Football . 126 Gymnastics . 143 Hockey . 151 Judo. 168 Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, Athens, Greece Australia at the Olympic Games 5 Location Participating Australian Male Female 1 Opening Ceremony Flag-bearer Closing Ceremony Flag-bearer Gold Silver Bronze Total Nations Team Size Athletes Athletes Chef de Mission 1896 I Athens, Greece 14 1 1 - - - - 2 - - 2 1900 II Paris, France 22 3 3 - - - - 3 - 4 7 1904 III St Louis, United States 12 2 2 - - - - - - - - 2 1908 IV London, England 22 27 27 - William Hill Henry St Aubyn Murray (NZL) - 1 2 1 4 2 1912 V Stockholm, Sweden 22 22 20 2 Vicary Horniman Malcolm Champion (NZL) - 2 2 2 6 1920 VII Antwerp, Belgium 29 12 (1) 11 1 Horace Bennett - - - 2 1 3 1924 VIII Paris, France 44 34 (5) 34 - Oswald Merrett Edwin Carr - 3 1 2 6 1928 IX Amsterdam, Holland 46 19 (2) 15 4 Leslie Duff Henry Pearce - 1 2 1 4 1932 X Los Angeles, United States 37 12 (4) 8 4 James Eve Andrew Charlton - 3 1 1 5 1936 XI Berlin, Germany 49 33 (4) 29 4 Harold Alderson Edgar Gray - - - 1 1 1948 XIV London, England 59 77 (11) 68 9 Edgar Tanner Les McKay - 2 6 5 13 1952 XV Helsinki, Finland 69 85 (12) 75 10 Bill Uren Mervyn Wood - 6 2 3 11 1956 XVI Melbourne, Australia 67 325 (35) 279 46 Bill Uren Mervyn Wood - 13 8 14 35 1960 XVII Rome, Italy 83 214 (31) 184 30 Sydney Grange Alex Sturrock - 8 8 6 22 1964 XVIII Tokyo, Japan 93 250 (46) 208 42 Len Curnow Ivan Lund Dawn Fraser 6 2 10 18 1968 XIX Mexico City, Mexico 112 135 (35) 111 24 Julius Patching Bill Roycroft Eric Pearce 5 7 5 17 1972 XX Munich, Germany 122 177 (46) 148 29 Julius Patching Dennis Green Michael Wenden 8 7 2 17 1976 XXI Montreal, Canada 92 184 (47) 149 35 Jack Howson Raelene Boyle Robert Haigh - 1 4 5 3 1980 XXII Moscow, USSR 80 122 93 29 Phillip Coles Denise Boyd and Max Metzker John Sumegi 2 2 5 9 1984 XXIII Los Angeles, United States 140 249 (85) 174 75 William Hoffman Wayne Roycroft Dean Lukin 4 8 12 24 1988 XXIV Seoul, South Korea 160 263 (83) 189 74 John Coates Ric Charlesworth Debbie Flintoff-King 3 5 6 14 1992 XXV Barcelona, Spain 172 290 (145) 194 96 John Coates Jenny Donnett Kieren Perkins 7 9 11 27 1996 XXVI Atlanta, United States 197 424 (220) 254 170 John Coates Andrew Hoy Mike Mckay 9 9 23 41 2000 XXVII Sydney, Australia 199 631 (374) 349 282 John Coates Andrew Gaze Ian Thorpe 16 25 17 58 2004 XXVIII Athens, Greece 201 John Coates Figures in brackets denote the number of officials. The two flag-bearers at Moscow were to symbolise unity. Australia, like a number of European countries, did not march behind its 1. Since the 1964 Olympic Games, the Olympic Charter designation of Chef de Mission has been adopted. national flag but behind that of the International Olympic Committee. 2. Competed with New Zealand as Australasia. Figures do not include New Zealand. Author’s Note: Although all winners are generally accorded gold-medal status, gold medals for winners were not introduced until 1904.