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Percy Oliver, the Glossary

Percival Cale Oliver (1 April 1919 – 9 July 2011) was an Australian backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.^[1]

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Swimmers at the 1938 British Empire Games

Backstroke

Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back.

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The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire.

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Freestyle swimming

Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to only a few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke.

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Hale School

Hale School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)

This is the complete list of men's Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming from 1930 to 2022.

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Mount Lawley Senior High School

Mount Lawley Senior High School is a public co-educational high day school in the City of Stirling, located in Mount Lawley, a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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Nedlands, Western Australia

Nedlands is a western suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

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Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.

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The West Australian

The West Australian is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia.

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1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics (Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (Spiele der XI.) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.

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