Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics


Australia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Australia sent 417 athletes, 250 men and 167 women, to the Atlanta Games.
An Australian segment was featured in the closing ceremony, as Australia was to host the next edition of the Summer Olympics in Sydney four years later.

Medalists

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Archery

In the seventh Olympic archery competition that Australia contested, the nation sent three men and three women. Matthew Gray had the nation's only individual win, though the men's team won twice in the team round before being defeated in the semifinal and the bronze medal match.
Women's individual competition:
Men's individual competition:
Men's team competition:
  • Gray, Fear, and Fairweather → Bronze medal match, 4th place

Athletics

Men's 100 metres
Men's 200 metres
Men's 400 metres
Men's 800 metres
  • Paul Byrne
  • * Qualification — 1:47.05
  • * Semi-Finals — 1:47.58
Men's 1,500 metres
Men's 5,000 metres
Men's 10,000 metres
Men's 4 × 100 m relay
Men's 4 × 400 m relay
Men's 110m hurdles
  • Kyle Vander Kuyp
  • * Heat — 13.32
  • * Quarter-final — 13.49
  • * Semi-final — 13.38
  • * Final — 13.40
Men's 400m hurdles
Men's 3,000 metres steeplechase
Men's decathlon
Men's marathon
Men's 20 km walk
Men's 50 km walk
Men's hammer throw
Men's high jump
Men's triple jump
Men's pole vault
Men's javelin throw
Women's 10,000 metres
Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Women's long jump
Women's discus throw
Women's javelin throw
Women's heptathlon
Women's marathon
Women's 10 km walk

Badminton

Men's singles
Men's doubles
Women's singles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles

Baseball

Men's tournament

Australia made its first appearance in the official Olympic baseball tournament in 1996. The team won two of its preliminary round games, against Korea and Japan, but lost the other five. The Australians' record put them in a three-way tie for fifth, with all three teams eliminated from contention and the tie-breaker rules used only to formally place the three teams. Australia came out on the bottom of that tie-breaker, and ended up in seventh place.

Basketball

Men's tournament

;Preliminary round
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Bronze medal match

Women's tournament

;Team roster
;Preliminary round
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Bronze medal match

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Men's flyweight
Men's bantamweight
Men's featherweight
Men's light welterweight
Men's light welterweight
Men's light middleweight
Men's middleweight
Men's light heavyweight

Canoeing

Slalom
Men's C-1
Men's C-2
Men's K-1
Women's K-1
Sprint
Men's K-1 500 metres
  • Cameron McFadzean
  • * Qualifying heat: 1:42.160 - 2nd
  • * Semi final: 1:41.083 - 4th
  • * Final: 1:41.023 - 9th
Men's K-1 1000 metres
  • Clint Robinson
  • * Qualifying heat: 3:44.768 - 2nd
  • * Semi final: 3:43.657 - 1st
  • * Final: 3:29.713 - 3rd
Men's K-2 500 metres
Men's K-2 1000 metres
  • Peter Scott and Grant Leury
  • * Qualifying heat: 3:40.114 - 1st
  • * Semi final: 3:19.056 - 5th
  • * Final: 3:13.054 - 7th
Men's K-4 1000 metres
Women's K-1 500 metres
  • Katrin Borchert
  • * Qualifying heat: 1:53.767 - 1st
  • * Semi final: 1:51.142 - 5th
  • * Final: 1:50.811 - 7th
Women's K-2 500 metres
Women's K-4 500 metres

Cycling

Road competition

Men's individual time trial
Women's individual road race
Women's individual time trial

Track competition

Men's 1,000m time trial
Men's points race

Mountain bike

Men's cross country
Women's cross country

Diving

Men's 3m springboard
Women's 3m springboard
Women's 10m platform

Equestrian

Individual dressage
  • Mary Hanna
  • * Grand Prix Test: 1644 points - 24th
  • * Grand Prix Special 2nd qualifier: Total score 130.09 - 24th - did not advance
Individual eventing
  • Nikki Bishop
  • * Dressage: 520 points - 3rd
  • * Cross country: disqualified - eliminated
  • David Green
  • * Dressage: 491 points - 8th
  • * Cross country: did not finish - retired
  • Andrew Hoy
  • * Dressage: 413+2 points - 29th
  • * Cross country: total points 49.2 - 14th
  • * Show jumping: penalty points 0 - 1st
  • * Final result: 112.60 - 11th
Team eventing
Individual jumping
  • David Cooper
  • * Total score: 88.25 - 71st
  • Russell Johnstone
  • * Total score: 48.00 - 61st
  • Jennifer Parlevliet
  • * Total score: Did not finish
  • Vicki Roycroft
  • * Total score: 40.00 - 55th
Team jumping
  • Jennifer Parlevliet, Vicki Roycroft, David Cooper and Russell Johnstone
  • * Total score: 129.00 - 19th

Fencing

One woman represented Australia in 1996.
;Women's épée

Football

Men's tournament
Squad

Gymnastics

Men's competitions
  • Brennon Dowrick
  • * Artistic individual all-around: 35th
  • * Floor: 83rd
  • * Horizontal bar: 53rd
  • * Parallel bars: 56th
  • * Pommel horse: 45th
  • * Rings: 69th
  • * Vault: 92nd
  • Bret Hudson
  • * Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 51st
  • * Floor: 75th
  • * Horizontal bar: 75th
  • * Parallel bars: 55th
  • * Pommel horse: 73rd
  • * Rings: 78th
  • * Vault: 55th
Women's competitions
  • Joanna Hughes
  • * Artistic individual all-around: 34th
  • * Artistic team all-around: 10th
  • * Balance beam: 62nd
  • * Floor: 38th
  • * Uneven bars: 76th
  • * Vault: 41st
  • Nicole Kantek
  • * Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 88th
  • * Artistic team all-around: 10th
  • * Balance beam: 93rd
  • * Floor: 77th
  • * Uneven bars: 95th
  • * Vault: 70th
  • Kirsty Leigh-Brown
  • * Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 104th
  • Ruth Moniz
  • * Artistic individual all-around: 35th
  • * Artistic team all-around: 10th
  • * Balance beam: 30th
  • * Floor: 80th
  • * Uneven bars: 40th
  • * Vault: 84th
  • Lisa Moro
  • * Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 77th
  • * Artistic team all-around: 10th
  • * Balance beam: 47th
  • * Floor: 46th
  • * Uneven bars: 35th
  • * Vault: 96th
  • Lisa Skinner
  • * Artistic individual all-around: 36th
  • * Artistic team all-around: 10th
  • * Balance beam: 42nd
  • * Floor: 49th
  • * Uneven bars: 50th
  • * Vault: 72nd
  • Jenny Smith
  • * Artistic individual all-around: Did not advance from preliminary round - 53rd
  • * Artistic team all-around: 10th
  • * Balance beam: 58th
  • * Floor: 59th
  • * Uneven bars: 81st
  • * Vault: 53rd

Hockey

Men's tournament

Preliminary round

Women's tournament

Preliminary round robin

Modern pentathlon

Men's individual competition:

Softball

Women's tournament

Swimming

Men's competitions

50m freestyle
100m freestyle
200m freestyle
200m freestyle
1500m freestyle
100m backstroke
200m backstroke
100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
100m butterfly
200m butterfly
200m individual medley
400m individual medley
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay

Women's competitions

50m freestyle
100m freestyle
200m freestyle
400m freestyle
800m freestyle
100m backstroke
200m backstroke
100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
100m butterfly
200m butterfly
200m individual medley
400m individual medley
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay

Tennis

Women's singles tournament

Weightlifting

Men's light-heavyweight