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Australia competed at the ''' 1996 Summer Olympics ''' in Atlanta, Georgia . It was the twenty-third time that the nation had competed, being one of only three nations (along with Greece and Great Britain ) to have competed in every Summer Olympics to that time. This included two times that Australia competed as part of a combined team with New Zealand . Australia competed under the IOC Country Code AUS.

Australia sent a record team of 424 athletes, 254 men and 170 women, to the Atlanta Games. Most notable is the number of women, easily more than double the then-record 74 women who had competed in , a team gold medallist in three-day eventing in 1992 and competing in his fourth Olympics, carried the flag in the Opening Ceremony.


MEDALS


Gold



Silver


Bronze



RESULTS BY EVENT


Archery

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

Men's Marathon



Baseball

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.

Men's Team Competition:
  • Australia → 7th place (2-5)



Boxing

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

Men's Light Welterweight (67 kg)

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)


Cycling

Men's 1000m Time Trial


Hockey


Men's Competition

  • 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

  • Australia - Spain 1-2

  • Bronze Medal Game

  • Australia - Germany 3-2 (→ Bronze Medal)




Women's Competition

  • 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)



Coach: Rick Charlesworth


Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:


Swimming


Men's Competition

50m Freestyle
  • Chris Fydler

  • # Heat – 22.98 (→ did not advance, 19th place)


100m Freestyle
  • Chris Fydler

  • # Heat – 50.72

  • # B-Final – 50.31 (→ 13th place)


200m Freestyle
  • Daniel Kowalski

  • # Heat – 1:48.92

  • # Final – 1:48.25 (→ Bronze Medal)


  • Michael Klim

  • # Heat – 1:49.17

  • # B-Final – 1:49.50 (→ 10th place)


200m Freestyle
  • Daniel Kowalski

  • # Heat – 3:51.67

  • # Final – 3:49.39 (→ Bronze Medal)


  • Malcolm Allen

  • # Heat – 3:54.34

  • # B-Final – 3:55.48 (→ 13th place)


1500m Freestyle
  • Kieren Perkins

  • # Heat – 15:21.42

  • # Final – 14:56.40 (→ Gold Medal)


  • Daniel Kowalski

  • # Heat – 15:12.55

  • # Final – 15:02.43 (→ Silver Medal)


100m Backstroke
  • Steven Dewick

  • # Heat – 56.35

  • # B-Final – 56.82 (→ 15th place)


200m Backstroke
  • Steven Dewick

  • # Heat – 2:04.46 (→ did not advance, 23th place)


100m Breaststroke
  • Phil Rogers

  • # Heat – 1:01.80

  • # Final – 1:01.64 (→ 5th place)


200m Breaststroke
  • Phil Rogers

  • # Heat – 2:14.97

  • # Final – 2:14.79 (→ 5th place)


  • Ryan Mitchell

  • # Heat – 2:15.31

  • # B-Final – 2:15.63 (→ 11th place)


100m Butterfly
  • Scott Miller

  • # Heat – 52.89

  • # Final – 52.53 (→ Silver Medal)


  • Michael Klim

  • # Heat – 53.42

  • # Final – 53.30 (→ 6th place)


200m Butterfly
  • Scott Goodman

  • # Heat – 1:57.77

  • # Final – 1:57.48 (→ Bronze Medal)


  • Scott Miller

  • # Heat – 1:58.97

  • # Final – 1:58.28 (→ 5th place)


200m Individual Medley
  • Matthew Dunn

  • # Heat – 2:01.44

  • # Final – 2:01.57 (→ 5th place)


  • Simon Coombs

  • # Heat – 2:07.31 (→ did not advance, 28th place)


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)


4x100m Freestyle Relay

4x200m Freestyle Relay

4x100m Medley Relay


Women's Competition

50m Freestyle

  • Sarah Ryan

  • # Heat – 26.34 (→ did not advance, 21st place)


100m Freestyle
  • Sarah Ryan

  • # Heat – 56.07

  • # Final – 55.85 (→ 6th place)


200m Freestyle
  • Susan O'Neill

  • # Heat – 2:00.89

  • # Final – 1:59.87 (→ 5th place)


  • Julia Greville

  • # Heat – 2:00.44

  • # Final – 2:01.46 (→ 7th place)


400m Freestyle
  • Emma Johnson

  • # Heat – 4:14.13

  • # B-Final – 4:15.79 (→ 12th place)


  • Hayley Lewis

  • # Heat – 4:17.02

  • # B-Final – 4:16.92 (→ 15th place)


800m Freestyle

  • Hayley Lewis

  • # Heat – 8:45.79 (→ did not advance, 13th place)


100m Backstroke

  • Elli Overton

  • # Heat – 1:03.88

  • # B-Final – 1:03.69 (→ 14th place)


200m Backstroke

100m Breaststroke
  • Samantha Riley

  • # Heat – 1:09.37

  • # Final – 1:09.18 (→ Bronze Medal)


  • Helen Denman

  • # Heat – 1:10.64

  • # B-Final – 1:10.26 (→ 11th place)


200m Breaststroke
  • Samantha Riley

  • # Heat – 2:28.30

  • # Final – 2:27.91 (→ 4th place)


  • Nadine Neumann

  • # Heat – 2:29.91

  • # Final – 2:28.34 (→ 6th place)


100m Butterfly
  • Susan O'Neill

  • # Heat – 1:00.55

  • # Final – 1:00.17 (→ 5th place)



200m Butterfly
  • Susan O'Neill

  • # Heat – 2:09.46

  • # Final – 2:07.76 (→ Gold Medal)


  • Petria Thomas

  • # Heat – 2:10.64

  • # Final – 2:09.82 (→ Silver Medal)


200m Individual Medley
  • Elli Overton

  • # Heat – 2:15.81

  • # Final – 2:16.04 (→ 5th place)



400m Individual Medley
  • Emma Johnson

  • # Heat – 4:43.45

  • # Final – 4:44.02 (→ 5th place)


  • Elli Overton

  • # Heat – 4:49.82

  • # B-Final – 4:50.73 (→ 14th place)


4x100m Freestyle Relay

4x200m Freestyle Relay

4x100m Medley Relay