Harold Hardwick

Harold Hardwick (1888 to 1959) was an Australian all-round sportsman from Balmain, Sydney, best known as an Olympic swimmer. Competing for the combined Australasia team at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, he won gold in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay, swimming the fastest leg of the quartet, and bronze in both the 400 metre and 1500 metre freestyle behind George Hodgson and Jack Hatfield. Away from the pool he played first grade rugby union for Eastern Suburbs, won a premiership in 1913, and became New South Wales amateur heavyweight boxing champion in 1914 and national professional champion in 1915. He served in the Australian Imperial Force and later rose to colonel in the militia.