Matthew Renshaw

Australian swimmer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAustralian swimmer
PlacesAustralia
isAthlete Swimmer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth31 October 1964
Age60 years
Star signScorpio
The details

Biography

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.

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