Charles Turner (water polo)
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3 September 1953 Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland |
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| Height | 186 cm (73 in) (1984) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) (1984) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Men's team | ||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals |
1976 Summer Olympics 1984 Summer Olympics 1984 Summer Olympics |
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Charles Turner (born 9 September 1953) is an Australian water polo player. He represented Australia as a member of the Australia men's national water polo team at three Olympics: 1976 Summer Olympics, 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics. He later became a sport administrator working for the New South Wales Institute of Sport.
Charles has two children named Francesca and Harry, and his favourite niece is Grace. Turner was born in Ardrossan in North Ayrshire, Scotland, on 9 September 1953. He later moved to Adelaide, South Australia. He has a brother, Michael Turner, who also represented Australia in water polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics. He is 186 centimetres (73 in) tall and weighs 92 kilograms (203 lb).
Turner became a member of the South Australia state representative team in 1968. He later joined the New South Wales representative team. In 1970, he was a member of the Adelaide-based Payneham water polo team.
Turner was a member of the Australia men's national water polo team. He had 504 caps with the team. He competed but did not win a medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics. At the 1976 Games, his team finished 11th, and only had two matches, a 4–4 draw against Mexico and an 8–2 defeat of Iraq, that did not end in a loss. At the 1980 Games, his team finished seventh, beating Bulgaria 9–5, Italy 5–4, Greece 4–2 and Sweden 9–2, and drawing Romania 4–4 along the way. At the 1984 Games, his team finished fifth, beating Japan 15–2, drawing Italy 8–8, losing to Germany 10–6 and Yugoslavia 9–6, drawing Spain 10–10, beating the Netherlands 8–7 and losing to the United States 12–7 along the way. He represented Australia at the 1993 World Cup, where Australia finished third and earned their first medal of any kind at a major men's international tournament.
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