Gael Martin Athlete

Gael Patricia Mulhall-Martin (born 27 August 1956 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian athlete, daughter of footballer Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club. She competed in the shot put and in the discus throw. She won the bronze medal in women's shot put at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States, becoming the first Australian (male or female) to win an Olympic medal in a throwing event. Mulhall competed in four successive Commonwealth Games events from 1974, winning double gold in Shot Put and Discus at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Coached by Franz Stampfl, she won a total of 20 senior Australian national championships in her career. At the 1981 Pan Pacific Conference Games she was tested positive for the use of anabolic steroids, and in 1987 she told a federal panel that she had used those doping substances throughout her career.