Greg Brough
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Full name | Gregory John Brough | |||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Bruffy" | |||||||||||||||||||
National team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Surfers Paradise, Queensland | 26 March 1951|||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 March 2014 Beechmont, Queensland | (aged 62)|||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gregory John Brough (26 March 1951 – 9 March 2014) was an Australian long-distance freestyle swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s, who won a bronze medal in the 1500-metre freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics. In Mexico City, Brough finished behind the American world record-holder Mike Burton and his teammate John Kinsella. He also finished fourth in the 400-metre, also won by Burton. At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Brough won a bronze in the 400-metre behind fellow Australian Graham White.
He attended The Southport School.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. p. 64. ISBN 0-7333-0884-8.
- ^ "Sport and Activities". The Southport School. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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Categories:
- 1951 births
- 2014 deaths
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Australian male freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Australian swimming biography stubs
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs