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Matthew Renshaw

Personal information
Birth name	Matthew Douglas Renshaw
Born	(1964-10-31) 31 October 1964 (age 60)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Swimming
Event	Freestyle
Medal record Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh 4×100 m freestyle 1990 Auckland 4×100 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships 1985 Tokyo 4×100 m medley 1991 Edmonton 4×100 m freestyle 1985 Tokyo 100 m freestyle 1985 Tokyo 4×100 m freestyle

Matthew Douglas Renshaw (born 31 October 1964) is an Australian former swimmer of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Renshaw, a graduate of Sydney's Barker College, trained with the Carlile swimming club.

During the 1980s, Renshaw featured in Australia's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay quartet known as the "Mean Machine", which most famously included Neil Brooks. At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he and his teammates set a games record in the final to win the 4 × 100 m freestyle gold medal. He won a further Commonwealth Games gold medal in Auckland in 1990, swimming the heats for the winning 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team.

Renshaw swam in two World Championships, in Madrid in 1986 and Perth in 1991.

References

1. "Knee operation for Renshaw". The Canberra Times. 10 September 1985. p. 18 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "Dual captains for swim team". The Canberra Times. 17 December 1990. p. 18 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "Sydney club wins well". The Canberra Times. 19 December 1983. p. 19 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Mean Machine angel". The Canberra Times. 18 May 1986. p. 2 (Sport) – via National Library of Australia.
5. Tucker, Jim (10 March 2018). "Mean Machine won gold medals and Australia's adoration". The Courier-Mail.
6. "Hard times for retiring coach". The Canberra Times. 1 January 1991. p. 12 – via National Library of Australia.

• 1964 births
• Living people
• Australian male freestyle swimmers
• People educated at Barker College
• Swimmers from Sydney
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
• Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
• Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
• Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Sportsmen from New South Wales
• 20th-century Australian sportsmen