Donald Malcolm Talbot AO OBE (23 August 1933 – 3 November 2020) was an Australian Olympic swimming coach and sport administrator.
[3][4] His parents were both of English descent; his father, Arthur Talbot, was from a family of coal miners from Yorkshire, and started work on the mines in Newcastle when he arrived with his brothers and sisters in Australia in 1914.
[3][4] When Talbot was three his father had a mining accident that ended his career, and subsequently moved the family to the Sydney suburb of Bankstown.
[5] He later took up competitive swimming under the wing of leading coach Frank Guthrie who waived his customary fee of £1 per week because Talbot's parents could not afford it.
While working with Guthrie at Bankstown Swimming Pool in Sydney, he took over the coaching of two young Latvian immigrants – brother and sister John and Ilsa Konrads.
[6] Other notable Australian swimmers who were coached or greatly assisted by Talbot in the 1960s and 1970s included Bob Windle, Kevin Berry, Beverley Whitfield, and Gail Neall.
[11] He was dismissed by the Canadian Olympic Committee some months before the 1988 games after demanding more rigid qualification standards and was replaced by Dave Johnson.
[14] From 1973 to 1989, he was married to Janice Murphy (later Jan Cameron), who worked closely with Talbot in both her swimming and coaching careers until the end of their relationship.