Matthew Renshaw (swimmer)
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| Birth name | Matthew Douglas Renshaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 October 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.