William "Bill" Mahony (born September 16, 1949 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who's eight years of competing internationally for his native country began in 1966 at the Commonwealth Games in Jamaica, with a bronze in the 220 yd breaststroke.
Mahony swam in two Summer Olympics, 1968 in Mexico City, and later in Munich (1972) where he won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay, alongside Erik Fish, Bruce Robertson, and Robert Kasting. At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh he was a triple gold medal winner, in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke, and the 4×100 m medley. In his last swim, at his third consecutive Commonwealth Games (New Zealand,1974), he helped win gold in the medley relay.
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- 1930 – 1934: 200 Yards Breaststroke
- 1938 – 1966: 220 Yards Breaststroke
- 1970 – 2010: 200 Metres Breaststroke
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- 1934: 3×100 Yards Medley
- 1938 – 1954: 3×110 Yards Medley
- 1958 – 1966: 4×110 Yards Medley
- 1970 – 2010: 4×100 Metres Medley
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- 1934: Canada (Gazell, Burleigh, Puddy)
- 1938: England (Dove, Davies, Taylor)
- 1950: England (Hale, Kendall, Romain)
- 1954: Australia (Weld, Hawkins, Henricks)
- 1958: Australia (Chapman, Monckton, Devitt, Gathercole)
- 1962: Australia (Dickson, O'Brien, Carroll, Berry)
- 1966: Canada (Gilchrist, Chase, Hutton, Jacks)
- 1970: Canada (MacDonald, Rogers, Wenden, Devenish)
- 1974: Canada (MacDonald, Kasting, Mahony, Kennedy)
- 1978: Canada (Sawchuk, Thompson, Smith, Tapp)
- 1982: Australia (Orbell, Sieben, Brooks, Evans)
- 1986: Canada (?, ?, ?, ?)
- 1990: Canada (Cleveland, Gery, Tewksbury, Ponting)
- 1994: Australia (Fydler, Rogers, Miller, Dewick)
- 1998: Australia (Watson, Cowley, Huegill, Klim)
- 2002: Australia (Welsh, Piper, Huegill, Thorpe)
- 2006: Australia (Welsh, Rickard, Klim, Sullivan)
- 2010: Australia (Delaney, Rickard, Huegill, Sullivan)
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