Charles Turner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Charles Turner
Occupation	Water Polo Player
Date Of Birth	Sep 3, 1953(1953-09-03)
Age	71
Birthplace	Ardrossan
Country	Australia
Birth City	Ardrossan
Horoscope	Capricorn

Charles Turner Biography

Charles Turner is one of the most popular and richest Water Polo Player who was born on September 3, 1953 in Ardrossan, Ardrossan, Australia. Charles has two children named Francesca and Harry. Turner was born in Ardrossan in North Ayrshire, Scotland, on 9 September 1953. He later moved to Adelaide, South Australia. He has a brother, Michael Turner, who also represented Australia in water polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics. He is 186 centimetres (73 in) tall and weighs 92 kilograms (203 lb).

Turner coached the Australian Institute of Sport men’s water polo team from 1985 to 1996. He was the first top-level water polo coach to work at the Australian Institute of Sport. In this role, he coached future women’s national water polo team coach Greg McFadden. After two years on the team, Turner named McFadden as his assistant coach.

Turner was the Chief Executive Officer of the New South Wales Institute of Sport from 2003 to 2016. He has also served as the New South Wales Institute of Sport’s Deputy Directory and Group Manager for High Performance Sport. In 1996, he became the vice president of the World Coaches Association. In 2004, he became a member of the Carbine Club of New South Wales, a water polo club, and would go on to become the organisation’s secretary.

Turner was inducted into the Australian Water Polo Hall of Fame]] in 2009. He has also been inducted into the New South Wales Hall of Fame and Path of Champions.

Turner was a member of the Australia men’s national water polo team. He had 504 caps with the team. He competed but did not win a medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics. At the 1976 Games, his team finished 11th, and only had two matches, a 4–4 draw against Mexico and an 8–2 defeat of Iraq, that did not end in a loss. At the 1980 Games, his team finished seventh, beating Bulgaria 9–5, Italy 5–4, Greece 4–2 and Sweden 9–2, and drawing Romania 4–4 along the way. At the 1984 Games, his team finished fifth, beating Japan 15–2, drawing Italy 8–8, losing to Germany 10–6 and Yugoslavia 9–6, drawing Spain 10–10, beating the Netherlands 8–7 and losing to the United States 12–7 along the way. He represented Australia at the 1993 World Cup, where Australia finished third and earned their first medal of any kind at a major men’s international tournament.

Charles Turner Net Worth

Charles Turner is one of the richest Water Polo Player from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Charles Turner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Charles Turner (born 9 September 1953) is an Australian water polo player. He represented Australia as a member of the Australia men’s national water polo team at three Olympics: 1976 Summer Olympics, 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics and Head Coach of the Australian team at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He later became a sport administrator working for the New South Wales Institute of Sport.

Turner became a member of the South Australia state representative team in

1968. He later joined the New South Wales representative team. In 1970, he was a member of the Adelaide-based Payneham water polo team.

In 1989, he was appointed Head Coach of the Australian men’s national water polo team (Aussie Sharks). The team came fifth at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and eight and tenth at the 1991 and 1994 World Championships. At the 1993 World Cup, Turner coached the Australian team to third place and earned Australia’s first medal of any kind at a major international tournament.

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Facts & Trivia

Charles Ranked on the list of most popular Water Polo Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Charles Turner celebrates birthday on September 3 of every year.

What did Charles Turner discover?

Among his most notable achievements, Turner was the first person to discover that insects can hear and alter behavior based on previous experience. He showed that insects were capable of learning, illustrating (in two of his most famous research projects) that honey bees can see in color and recognize patterns.

What did Charles Henry Turner prove insects could do?

Notably, Turner published three times in the journal Science. In his research, Turner became the first person to prove that insects can hear and can distinguish pitch. In addition, he first discovered that cockroaches can learn by trial and error and that honeybees can see visual patterns.

What is Charles Turner area of expertise?

Charles Henry Turner (1867-1923) was a pioneer of the comparative psychology and animal behavior movement in America and one of the most influential scientists working on problems of comparative behavior from the late 1890s through the early 1920s.

What fields of study did Dr Charles Henry Turner make significant

contributions?

Charles Henry Turner made significant contributions to the fields of zoology, entomology, and psychology. Over a thirty-year career, he published widely on not only scientific topics, but also civil rights and education, authoring over seventy articles in total.

What was Charles Henry Turner most famous for?

Charles Henry Turner , (born February 3, 1867, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died February 14, 1923, Chicago, Illinois), American behavioral scientist and early pioneer in the field of insect behaviour. He is best known for his work showing that social insects can modify their behaviour as a result of experience.