Michael Wenden

Michael Vincent Wenden, (born 17 November 1949) is a champion swimmer who represented Australia in the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he won four medals: gold in both the 100- and 200-metre freestyle (setting world records in each) and a silver and a bronze in freestyle relays.

Wenden was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1979. He was one of the eight bearers of the Olympic Flag at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Wenden was appointed an MBE in 1969 and made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2006 Australia Day Honours for "service to the Olympic movement as an administrator and competitor".

Wenden holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales. His daughter Karen Baildon (née Wenden) competed in swimming at the Queensland state level and won the 1989 Miss Universe Miss Photogenic title. She is married to Olympic swimmer Andrew Baildon.

See also

List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) World record progression 100 metres freestyle World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay

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1949 births

Living people

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Swimmers from Sydney

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Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Olympic gold medalists for Australia

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World record setters in swimming

Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire

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Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia

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Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia

University of New South Wales alumni

Olympic bronze medalists in swimming

Australian male freestyle swimmers

World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming

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Swimmers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

Swimmers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games

Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Olympic gold medalists in swimming

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Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming

Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees

20th-century Australian people

Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

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Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games

Sportsmen from New South Wales