Gael Martin
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Full name | Gael Patricia Mulhall-Martin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Melbourne, Victoria[1] |
27 August 1956 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Women's Powerlifting | ||
World Games | ||
1981 IPF Women's World Powerlifting Championships | +82.5 kg | |
1983 IPF Women's World Powerlifting Championships | 90 kg | |
1988 IPF Women's World Powerlifting Championships | +90 kg |
Gael Patricia Mulhall-Martin (born 27 August 1956) is a former Australian athlete who competed in the shot put and in the discus throw at the Olympic level and also had a career in powerlifting.
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Athletics
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Mulhall-Martin is daughter of footballer Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club.[2]
She won the bronze medal in women's shot put at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States,[1] becoming the first Australian (male or female) to win an Olympic medal in a throwing event.
Mulhall also competed in four successive Commonwealth Games events from 1974, winning double gold in Shot Put and Discus at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
Coached by Franz Stampfl, she won a total of 20 senior Australian national championships in her career.[3]
At the 1981 Pan Pacific Conference Games she was tested positive for the use of anabolic steroids and received an 18-month ban.[4]
Powerlifting
Gael Martin represented Australia in the Women's World Powerlifting Championships in 1981, 1983 and 1988. In 1987, Martin received a grant from the ACT Talented Athletes Development Awards program. The higher level grant, which Martin received, was awarded to applicants with international ranking and the support of their sporting organization.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ VFL Statistics: Ken Mulhall; "Cleared by Tribunal", The Age, (Wednesday, 29 July, 1953), p.12
- ↑ Athletics Australia Profile
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
References
- Farber, M., "Drugs hurt career of Aussie woman", The (Montreal) Gazette, (Monday, 4 October 1982), p.F-5.
- Goodwin, D., "Gael's firm — 'I'm not a drug taker' ", (Sydney) Sun Herald, (Sunday, 16 August 1981), p.17.
- Mitchell, N. and McMahon, P., "Mulhall may take life ban to court", The Age, (Wednesday, 15 July, 1981), p.36.
- Nolan, D., "Gael is hoping to throw for gold", The Australian Women's Weekly, (Wednesday, 21 March 1979), p.29.
- Webster, J., "Mulhall to start her comeback on Saturday", The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, 28 July 1982), p.40.
- 1973 photograph of Mulhall with Ray Rigby at an athletic meeting.
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- Australian discus throwers
- Australian shot putters
- Doping cases in athletics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Australian Institute of Sport track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Sportswomen from Victoria (Australia)
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Female discus throwers
- Female shot putters
- Australian sportspeople in doping cases
- Australian powerlifters
- Doping cases in Australian track and field
- Sportspeople from Melbourne