1987 Australian Swimming Championships

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The 1987 Australian Swimming Championships were held at the Beatty Park Pool in Perth, Western Australia from Thursday 26 February to Sunday 1 March. They were organised by Australian Swimming.^[1]

Medal winners

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Roberto Gleria Cabramatta (NSW)	23.65	Thomas Stachewicz Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	23.98	Dominic Sheldrick City of Perth (WA)	24.11
100 m freestyle	Thomas Stachewicz Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	51.36	Roberto Gleria Cabramatta (NSW)	51.45	Matthew Renshaw ACI Carlile (NSW)	52.33
200 m freestyle	Roberto Gleria Cabramatta (NSW)	1:49.71 ACR ^[2]	Thomas Stachewicz Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	1:50.08	Jason Plummer St. Peters (Qld)	1:52.60
400 m freestyle	Roberto Gleria Cabramatta (NSW)	3:54.47	Duncan Armstrong ACI Lawrence (Qld)	3:55.27	Jason Plummer St. Peters (Qld)	3:58.55
800 m freestyle	Michael McKenzie Palm Beach-Currumbin (Qld)	8:10.70	Stuart Feenstra Poseidon (NSW)	8:11.11	David O'Brien Olympia (NSW)	8:21.52
1500 m freestyle	Jason Plummer St. Peters (Qld)	15:23.79	Michael McKenzie Palm Beach-Currumbin (Qld)	15:40.55	David O'Brien Olympia (NSW)	15:54.73

50 m backstroke	Martin Davies Melbourne Aquatic (Vic)	27.46	Robert Whyte Academy (NSW)	27.54	Matthew Renshaw ACI Carlile (NSW)	27.77
100 m backstroke	Thomas Stachewicz Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	58.18	Simon Upton ACI Carlile (NSW)	58.95	Matthew Renshaw ACI Carlile (NSW)	59.43
200 m backstroke	Simon Upton ACI Carlile (NSW)	2:04.20	Martin Roberts Marion (SA)	2:06.99	Colin Irvine Hunter (NSW)	2:08.74

50 m breaststroke	Rodney Lawson Melbourne Aquatic (Vic)	29.48 AR , ACR ^[2]	Peter Evans City of Perth (WA)	30.44	James Legge City of Perth (WA)	30.69
100 m breaststroke	Rodney Lawson Melbourne Aquatic (Vic)	1:04.00	Ian McAdam Academy (NSW)	1:06.49	Brad Simpson MLC Leander (Qld)	1:06.63
200 m breaststroke	Rodney Lawson Melbourne Aquatic (Vic)	2:20.62	Paul Lee Victoria Park Carlisle (WA)	2:23.27	Ian McAdam Academy (NSW)	2:23.67

50 m butterfly	Barry Armstrong Carine/WAIS (WA)	25.53	Jon Sieben ACI Lawrence (Qld)	25.96	Robert Bruce ACI Carlile (NSW)	26.11
100 m butterfly	Barry Armstrong Carine/WAIS (WA)	55.85	David Wilson ACI Vicentre (Vic)	56.54	Jon Sieben ACI Lawrence (Qld)	56.65^[a]
200 m butterfly	David Wilson ACI Vicentre (Vic)	2:02.05	Anthony McDonald Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	2:04.81	Ian Brown Maida Vale (WA)	2:05.43

200 m individual medley	Anthony McDonald Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	2:07.17	Brent Harding Academy (NSW)	2:08.19	Paul Lee Victoria Park Carlisle (WA)	2:08.23
400 m individual medley	Anthony McDonald Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	4:31.03	Paul Lee Victoria Park Carlisle (WA)	4:31.81	Brent Harding Academy (NSW)	4:33.72

4 × 100 m state freestyle relay	New South Wales	3:31.40	Queensland	3:32.78	Western Australia	3:40.53
4 × 200 m state freestyle relay	New South Wales	7:39.09	Queensland	7:39.85
4 × 100 m state medley relay	New South Wales	3:55.08	Western Australia	3:56.65	Queensland	4:05.56
4 × 100 m club freestyle relay	ACI Carlile A (NSW)	3:31.79	Beatty Park (WA)	3:35.55	ACI Lawrence (Qld)	3:36.68
4 × 200 m club freestyle relay
4 × 100 m club medley relay	Melbourne Aquatic (Vic)	3:55.93	ACI Carlile A (NSW)	3:57.37	City of Perth 1 (WA)	3:59.98

Legend:AR – Australian record;ACR – Australian All Comers record

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Annemarie Verstappen Netherlands	26.45	Angela Harris Commercial (Qld)	26.72	Karen van Wirdum FAI St. Bernadette's (Qld)	26.77
100 m freestyle	Annemarie Verstappen Netherlands	57.22	Angela Harris Commercial (Qld)	57.62	Julie Pugh FAI St. Bernadette's (Qld)	57.68
200 m freestyle	Julie McDonald ACI Lawrence (Qld)	2:02.83	Annemarie Verstappen Netherlands	2:03.16	Sheridan Burge-Lopez ACI Carlile (NSW)	2:03.61
400 m freestyle	Janelle Elford Carss Park (NSW)	4:11.17	Julie McDonald ACI Lawrence (Qld)	4:14.67	Sheridan Burge-Lopez ACI Carlile (NSW)	4:15.09
800 m freestyle	Janelle Elford Carss Park (NSW)	8:31.37	Julie McDonald ACI Lawrence (Qld)	8:36.25	Sheridan Burge-Lopez ACI Carlile (NSW)	8:40.42
1500 m freestyle	Janelle Elford Carss Park (NSW)	16:10.11	Julie McDonald ACI Lawrence (Qld)	16:22.44	Sheridan Burge-Lopez ACI Carlile (NSW)	16:33.80

50 m backstroke	Nicole Livingstone ACI Vicentre (Vic)	30.79	Annemarie Verstappen Netherlands	30.91	Karen Lord Shellharbour-Warilla (NSW)	31.28
100 m backstroke	Nicole Livingstone ACI Vicentre (Vic)	1:04.65	Annemarie Verstappen Netherlands	1:05.41	Karen Lord Shellharbour-Warilla (NSW)	1:05.59
200 m backstroke	Nicole Livingstone ACI Vicentre (Vic)	2:14.40	Karen Lord Shellharbour-Warilla (NSW)	2:18.29	Pippa Downes Palm Beach-Currumbin (Qld)	2:19.72

50 m breaststroke	Lara Hooiveld MLC Leander (Qld)	32.63 AR , ACR ^[2]	Claudia Dullo Academy (NSW)	33.20	Kelly Armstrong Carine/WAIS (WA)	33.83
100 m breaststroke	Lara Hooiveld MLC Leander (Qld)	1:12.65	Dimity Douglas MLC Leander (Qld)	1:13.28	Claudia Dullo Academy (NSW)	1:13.33
200 m breaststroke	Angie Greenwood Morgan/Miami (Qld)	2:34.40	Kellie Lowns Morgan/Miami (Qld)	2:36.85	Dimity Douglas MLC Leander (Qld)	2:37.12

50 m butterfly	Fiona Alessandri Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	29.02	Angela Harris Commercial (Qld)	29.04	Jacki Grant FAI St. Bernadette's (Qld)	29.23
100 m butterfly	Fiona Alessandri Beatty Park/WAIS (WA)	1:03.79	Megan Johnston Gladstone (Qld)	1:03.94	Colette Gunn ACI Lawrence (Qld)	1:04.42
200 m butterfly	Megan Johnston Gladstone (Qld)	2:16.21	Lisa Fildes Palm Beach-Currumbin (Qld)	2:17.87	Bronwyn Burns Carss Park (NSW)	2:18.05

200 m individual medley	Jodie Clatworthy ACI Lawrence (Qld)	2:20.67	Pippa Downes Palm Beach-Currumbin (Qld)	2:21.85	Colette Gunn ACI Lawrence (Qld)	2:22.85
400 m individual medley	Janelle Elford Carss Park (NSW)	4:52.16	Jodie Clatworthy ACI Lawrence (Qld)	4:56.95	Donna Procter Hunter (NSW)	4:58.80

4 × 100 m state freestyle relay	Queensland	3:54.14	New South Wales	4:01.10	Western Australia	4:03.28
4 × 200 m state freestyle relay	Queensland	8:28.75	New South Wales	8:35.40
4 × 100 m state medley relay	New South Wales	4:22.98	Queensland	4:23.31	Western Australia	4:31.86
4 × 100 m club freestyle relay	FAI St. Bernadette's Gold (Qld)	3:55.57	ACI Lawrence Mudcrabs (Qld)	3:59.48	ACI Lawrence Dolphins (Qld)	3:59.66
4 × 200 m club freestyle relay	ACI Lawrence Mudcrabs (Qld)	8:31.66	FAI St. Bernadette's Gold (Qld)	8:35.63	ACI Carlile (NSW)	8:42.64
4 × 100 m club medley relay

Legend:AR – Australian record;ACR – Australian All Comers record

Notes

↑ This time was incorrectly listed as 56.56 in the Annual Report.^[3]

References

↑ "Australian Swimming – Swimming Statistics 1986–1987 Season". Australian Swimming – 78th Annual Report 1986–1987 Season (PDF) (Report). Australian Swimming. 1987. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
1 2 3 "Australian Swimming – Swimming Statistics 1986–1987 Season". Australian Swimming – 78th Annual Report 1986–1987 Season (PDF) (Report). Australian Swimming. 1987. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
↑ "Sports results and details – Swimming – Australian C'Ships At Perth". The Canberra Times . 2 March 1987. p. 17 – via Trove.

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[4] This time was incorrectly listed as 56.56 in the Annual Report.^[3]

[1] "Australian Swimming – Swimming Statistics 1986–1987 Season". Australian Swimming – 78th Annual Report 1986–1987 Season (PDF) (Report). Australian Swimming. 1987. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2010.

[page_23-2] 1 2 3 "Australian Swimming – Swimming Statistics 1986–1987 Season". Australian Swimming – 78th Annual Report 1986–1987 Season (PDF) (Report). Australian Swimming. 1987. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2010.

[Canberra_Times-3] "Sports results and details – Swimming – Australian C'Ships At Perth". The Canberra Times . 2 March 1987. p. 17 – via Trove.

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