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Graeme Brewer

Personal information
Full name	Graeme Thomas Brewer
National team	Australia
Born	(1958-12-01) 1 December 1958 (age 66) New South Wales
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Tamarana
Medal record Men's swimming Representing Australia Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 200 m freestyle Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton 4x200 m freestyle 1982 Brisbane 4x100 m freestyle 1982 Brisbane 4x200 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 200 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 4x100 m freestyle 1978 Edmonton 4x100 m medley Summer Universiade 1979 Mexico City 400 m freestyle

Graeme Thomas Brewer (born 1 December 1958) is an Australian former freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s who won a bronze medal in the 200-metre freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics. In all he won 13 Australian titles.

A native of New South Wales, Brewer attended Sydney Boys High School, graduating in 1976. He first gained attention in the surf lifesaving world when he won consecutive Australian junior ironman championships in 1976 and 1977, competing for the Tamarama club from Sydney's eastern suburbs. Switching to competition in the pool, Brewer gained prominence at Canada's 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, winning a silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle and one of each colour in the three relays.

In Moscow, Brewer claimed a bronze medal behind the Soviet Union pair of Sergey Kopliakov and Andrei Krylov. He came eighth in the 100-metre freestyle and seventh in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay along with Mark Tonelli, Mark Kerry and Neil Brooks. He narrowly missed the final of the 400-metre freestyle.

Brewer was best known for being a member of the so-called "Mean Machine" competing at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, when he combined with Neil Brooks, Greg Fasala and Michael Delany to claim gold in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay, gaining their nickname after collectively shaving their heads for the race. He also won a gold in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, coming fourth.

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)

References

1. Graeme Brewer profile at SR/Olympic Sports Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Graeme Brewer at Australian Sporting Representatives" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
3. Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. pp. 62–63. ISBN 0-7333-0884-8.

• 1958 births
• Living people
• Olympic swimmers for Australia
• Australian male freestyle swimmers
• Swimmers from Sydney
• Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
• Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
• Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Swimmers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
• Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
• Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
• FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Australia
• Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade
• Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
• Sportsmen from New South Wales
• 20th-century Australian sportsmen
• Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
• People educated at Sydney Boys High School