Background
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Mulhall-Martin is daughter of football player Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules football player with the Street Kilda Football Club.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Mulhall-Martin is daughter of football player Ken Mulhall, an Australian rules football player with the Street Kilda Football Club.
At the 1981 Pan Pacific Conference Games she was tested positive for the use of anabolic steroids and received an 18-month ban. Gael Martin represented Australia in the Women"s World Championships in 1981, 1983 and 1988. The higher level grant, which Martin received, was awarded to applicants with international ranking and the support of their sporting organization.
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 also 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. In 1987, Martin received a grant from the ACT Talented Athletes Development Awards program
