Quietly Confident Quartet
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The Quietly Confident Quartet was the self-given name of the Australian men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay swimming team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The United States
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (pictured) pressured the Australian athletes to boycott the Olympics.
The "Quietly Confident Quartet" pictured after the team's win at the 1980 Moscow Olympics: from left, Peter Evans, Neil Brooks, Mark Tonelli, and Mark Kerry.
Mark Tonelli
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Mark Lyndon Tonelli, whose birth name was Mark Lyndon Leembruggen, is an Australian former backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold in the 4×100-metre medley
Quietly Confident Quartet
…not won the event at Olympic level since its inception in 1960. The quartet consisted of backstroker Mark Kerry, breaststroker Peter Evans, butterflyer Mark Tonelli, and freestyler Neil Brooks. The team was nominally led by its oldest member Tonelli, who was 23 and was also a spokesperson for the Australian athletes…
The Olympic pool in Montreal, where Tonelli competed in 1976