fullname club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
graeme thomas brewer tamarana new south wales 96 kg lb on 1.92 m ftin on 1 december 1958 graeme brewer
 freestyle graeme brewer
graeme brewer

graeme thomas brewer -lrb- born 1 december 1958 -rrb- is an australian former freestyle swimmer of the late 1970s and early 1980s who won a bronze medal in the 200-metre freestyle at the 1980 summer olympics .
in all he won 13 australian titles .
a native of new south wales , brewer attended sydney boys high school , graduating in 1976 .
he first gained attention in the surf lifesaving world when he won consecutive australian junior ironman championships in 1976 and 1977 , competing for the tamarama club from sydney 's eastern suburbs .
switching to competition in the pool , brewer gained prominence at canada 's 1978 commonwealth games in edmonton , winning a silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle and one of each colour in the three relays .
in moscow , brewer claimed a bronze medal behind the soviet union pair of sergey kopliakov and andrei krylov .
he came eighth in the 100-metre freestyle and seventh in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay along with mark tonelli , mark kerry and neil brooks .
he narrowly missed the final of the 400-metre freestyle .
brewer was best known for being a member of the so-called `` mean machine '' competing at the 1982 commonwealth games in brisbane , when he combined with neil brooks , greg fasala and michael delany to claim gold in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay , gaining their nickname after collectively shaving their heads for the race .
he also won a gold in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay .
he competed at the 1984 summer olympics in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay , coming fourth .
