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Note: Clare Dennis was 16 years old when she won the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games
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Biographical note: In the Stockholm Olympics, 1912, Healy entered the 100m event with fellow Australian Bill Longworth and American Duke Kahanamoku. All three qualified for the semi-final, with Kahanamoku clearly the fastest. Healy and Longworth then qualified from the first semifinal, but the three Americans, who were scheduled to qualify in the second semi-final did not, due an error by their team management. However, Healy intervened, saying if he was to win it would be against the best in the world. He assisted in an appeal to allow the Americans to swim another special race in order to qualify for the final. Despite protestation from other delegations, the Americans were allowed a separate race, with Kahanamoku qualifying for the final. In the final, Kahanamoku won easily, by 1.2s, over a bodylength, with Healy in second place. The two became lifelong friends and Kahanamoku lifted Healy's hand higher than his own in the victory salute on the dais. Healy invited the Duke to Australia and board riding was introduced to Australia.
References: Wikipedia & Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing (ABC Television)
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Sir Francis ("Frank") Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire (13 May 1891 – 29 May 1956) was an Australian distance freestyle swimmer from the 1900s to the 1920s, who won three silver and three bronze medals, from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, setting 15 world records.
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 – January 22, 1968), Hawaiian, is generally regarded as the person who popularized the modern sport of surfing. He was a triple Olympic swimming champion and twice a silver medallist in three Olympic Games.
Reginald ("Snowy") Leslie Baker (8 February 1884 – 2 December 1953) was an Australian athlete, sports promoter and film actor. At 16 he played in the Australian Rugby Union team against Great Britain. At 17 he was middleweight boxing champion of New South Wales, and at 18 took the middleweight and heavyweight boxing titles of Australia. Baker was also prominent at polo, water polo, cricket and diving, and proficient in surfing, fencing, hockey, rowing, yachting and equestrian events. He appeared at the 1908 London Olympics, representing Australasia in the 4x200m freestyle relay, finishing fourth, and in the diving where he lost in the first round, coming seventh against the powerful Germans who dominated the sport at the time. He also took part in the Olympic boxing competition, where he lost the final match against Johnny Douglas, winning a silver medal. Douglas' father, J H Douglas, as President of the Amateur Boxing Association, presented his son with the gold medal and Baker with the silver. The official report did not name referees, but a number of newspaper and magazine reports later claimed that Douglas senior had refereed the final and Baker confirmed this in an interview in 1952 with respected journalist Norman Bartlett. The pair met in a bare-knuckle return match at a London club and Baker knocked Douglas out.
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The 12-strong Australian team returned from the Los Angeles Games with five medals: three gold, one silver and a bronze. The three gold, won by cyclist Edgar "Dunc" Gray, rower Henry "Bobby" Pearce and teenage swimmer Clare Dennis, matched the record total from Paris in 1924. The silver medal was won by swimmer Philomena "Bonnie" Mealing in the women's 100m backstroke, while Eddie Scarf's bronze in freestyle wrestling was the first Australian medal in the sport.
The Sydney 2000 Olympic velodrome was named in Dunc Gray's honour.
Clare Dennis was the youngest woman to win a gold medal in Los Angeles, aged 16.
The Australian flag at the Opening Ceremony was carried by swimming legend Andrew "Boy" Charlton. However, unlike the previous two Games of 1924 and 1928, Charlton did not win a medal in Los Angeles, his performance affected by illness.
Australia competed in five sports in Los Angeles: aquatics (swimming), athletics, cycling, rowing and wrestling. Of these, athletics was the only sport in which no medal was won. The team was small as amateur athletes earnt little money and the travelling expenses from Australia were always high because of distance.
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