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John had a successful business career and later worked as a swimming coach, mentor and motivational speaker. The originals were given to the National Sports Museum at the MCG on Wednesday.
1960 Rome Olympic Games Participation Medal awarded to John Konrads ANMM Collection John Konrads (b 1942) was a Latvian immigrant who came to Australia with his family at age seven as a refugee after World War II. "Not everyone remembers John Konrads and how amazing his career was," he said. According to the article, Konrads was approach by a U.S. sports collector who had purchased 16 of Konrads' medals, including the 1500 free gold medal from the Rome Olympics, from an Australian woman.
Detective Senior Constable Uebergang said Mr Konrads had travelled from Sydney to collect the medals last Wednesday. The International Olympic Committee created replicas of the stolen medals won by Konrads, which he later sold. ABN 70 592 297 967 | The National Museum of Australia is an Australian Government Agency, The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians.
[See more from Drive's Treasure Trove here. He represented Australia at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. Konrads won gold in the 1500m freestyle event at 1960 Rome Olympics. As a swimming prodigy in the 1950s and '60s, Mr Konrads broke every freestyle world record from 200m to 1500m by the time he was 15, going on to win a gold medal for the 1500m freestyle at the 1960 Rome Olympics. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, John Konrads won two individual medals: a bronze and a gold. Here Konrads contracted a mild case of polio and was encouraged to swim as a method of rehabilitation.
Please select the editions you would like to sign up to. ‘Treasure trove: John Konrads’ medals’, interview 666 ABC Canberra, John Konrads ‘Wisdom interview’, 2005 with Peter Thompson, ABC Radio National. "This was also found to be stolen from a property in Brighton in 1995 10 years after Mr Konrads," Sen-Constable Uebergang said. The swimmer, who became Australia's youngest male Olympian when selected as a reserve for the 1956 Melbourne Games at the age of 14, was "thrilled" by the results of the sales, according to Charles Leski, whose company auctioned off the goods in Melbourne on Thursday. The medals, including a gold for the 1500m freestyle at the 1960 Rome Olympics, were returned to Konrads, 67, last week. The National Museum of Australia paid $37,078.10 including GST and auction house commission, for the medals, clothing and items from John Konrads' collection. Two of Rose's Olympic gold medals and a white Olympic … Follow SBS News to join in the conversation and never miss the latest live updates. The front depicts in relief a design of 18 athletes marching in pairs following a single figure bearing a banner with the Olympic rings. Despite keen competition, John brought home two bronze medals for the 400m freestyle and the 4x200m freestyle relay and won the coveted gold medal for the 1500m freestyle. A circular bronze participation Olympic medal. The collection includes clothing, ephemera and memorabilia from the 1960 Rome Olympics and the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Police also recovered up to 200 items including war medals that were stolen from the Brighton area around the same time. During the 1950s and 1960s, swimming as a professional sport was in its infancy and Australian swimmers attracted less international recognition and sponsorship opportunities.
He claims the bronze resulted from an over-focus on Competitive thinking and the gold from an Achievement motivation.
The Olympic Games held in Rome in 1960 represented the pinnacle of John's career, and a triumph for Australian swimming.
John Konrads Olympic medals were stolen in a housebreak in 1985 but recovered 23 years later. [an error occurred while processing this directive]. In December 1979, a medal awarded to Milton Fowler Gregg in 1918, the Victoria Cross, was donated to the Royal Canadian Regiment Museum in London, Ontario, but was stolen from the … At the peak of his career, John won the 1500m freestyle gold medal and two bronze medals. She described Mr Konrad’s 1500-metre gold as "iconic".
Citing the wrath of Don Talbot as a particular motivation, the 18-year-old later told an ABC interviewer that 'before I got on the blocks for the 1500, I knew I'd won even before I dived into the pool.'. Don't have an account? It complements many other National Historical Collection objects that show Australia's continuing passion for Olympic sports.
"He had given up all hope of ever getting them back, thinking they'd probably either been melted down or were with a collector and (that he) wasn't likely to see them again in his lifetime.". The International Olympic Committee presented John Konrads with a framed set of replica medals to replace the loss. From the late 1950s, together with his sister, Ilsa Konrads, the teenage 'Konrads kids' went on to set dozens of world records for swimming. While some items easily exceeded the sales reserves, including a collection of scrapbooks that sold for $6,000, plus a 20 per cent buyer's premium and GST, others did not net as much as hoped. "I don't think there can be two sets," he said. John Konrads has a distinguished career in Australian corporate life. By 1953 the family had moved to Revesby on Sydney's outskirts. They were bought by a Corio woman for about $200 from a garage sale in Brisbane about 10 years ago.
Described by Harry Gordon, Australian Olympic Committee's Official Historian, as a most significant figure in Australia's sporting history, Latvian born Konrads was the first non-British immigrant to win gold for Australia. Catch up on SBS On Demand. Konrads won gold in the 1500m freestyle event at 1960 Rome Olympics. Konrads held the lead in the final until the halfway mark, when Rose attacked and Konrads deviated from his raceplan. Konrad's Olympic medal collection - including a gold and two bronze medals from the 1960 Rome Olympics - raised only $24,750, well below estimates. A set of Olympic medals won by Australian swimmer John Konrads in Rome in 1960 has been acquired by the National Museum of Australia. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, John Konrads won two individual medals: a bronze and a gold. They've been won, nicked, found, returned and are now in the possession of the National Museum of Australia: John Konrads' Olympic medals could star in their own movie.
Fortuitously, this was probably the only migrant camp in Australia with a swimming pool. Konrads' short but brilliant career provides an interesting contrast with those of young professional Australian swimmers today. John Konrads' elite sporting medals, including an Olympic gold, were discovered in a Corio house following an anonymous tip-off to police, the Geelong Advertiserreports.. Corio CIU Det … log in.
There is a motto of the International Olympic Committee in Latin CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS, which means "Faster, Higher, Stronger".
An American sports memorabilia collector who bought a swag of Olympic medals on eBay, unknowingly uncovered the precious collection stolen from Konrads' home in 1984. Download our free app on the App Store or Google Play for the latest headlines and breaking news alerts. In 2003, Lauren Burns' Olympic gold medal was stolen. Konrads subsequently took up a scholarship at the University of Southern California between 1961 and 1963, and although he qualified for the Australian 4x200 metre freestyle relay team for the 1964 Toyko Olympic Games, he did not compete and effectively retired from swimming that year aged twenty-two. The 16 medals belonging to freestyle gold medallist Konrads were recovered by police from the Victorian regional city of Geelong in May.
Almost three decades later, he has come to understand how these two thinking styles played out to produce two very different results. Mr Konrads was last week reunited with a gold and two bronze medals he won in the 1960 Rome Olympics.
"He was thrilled and surprised that they had been recovered," Detective Senior Constable Uebergang said. Watch SBS World News live daily at 6:30pm on TV and on our app. Several years ago, Mr Konrads was given official replicas of his Olympic medals from the original moulds by the International Olympic Committee, which he then put up for auction after falling on hard times. He claims the bronze resulted from an over-focus on Competitive thinking and the gold from an Achievement motivation. After the German and Soviet occupations of Latvia during the Second World War, in 1949 the Konrads family became part of the broad diaspora of post-war migration to Australia. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Scott Morrison calls on the United States and China to dial down hostilities, Shanghai airport coronavirus scare causes China to test millions, England to come out of lockdown and into stricter tiered system, Johnson announces, Parents named amid tributes to 'gorgeous children' killed in dam crash, Coronavirus vaccine may be given to healthcare workers and vulnerable from March.