‘Super Mum’ in Games team

Press, 19 December 1989, Page 40

‘Super Mum’ in Games team

NZPA-Reuter Sydney Lisa “Super Mum” Curry, a triple gold medallist in the 1982 Commonwealth Games, won selection in Australia’s swimming team for the 1990 games yesterday, 11 months after coming out of a five-year retirement. Curry was named in a 41-strong squad which the coach, Don Talbot, expects to win more medals than archrival, Canada, in the Games starting on January 24. Speaking at the end of the Games trials in Adelaide, Mr Talbot said: “I feel much more confident after tonight that we can win the gold medal count and the total medal count.” “I think it is every bit as good as any of the modern teams that have left Australia,” he said. Australia won 13 golds in the pool compared with Canada’s 15 in the 1982 Games in Edinburgh. The squad of 21 men and 20 women includes Glen Housman whose world record swim in the 1500 m freestyle during the trials was ruled invalid because of a technical hitch. Australia’s only swimming gold medallist in the Seoul Olympics, Duncan Armstrong, will miss the Auckland Games because of injury. Curry, the oldest member of the squad at 27, retired after the 1984 Olympics, married the Olympic kayak bronze medallist, Grant Kenny, and had a baby boy 2 I /j years ago. Curry won the 50m and 100 m freestyle plus the 100 m butterfly events at the trials and is in line for medals in five events at the Games.