1960 Olympic trials
In July, 1960, Hall qualified for the Olympic team, while playing for the Lynwood Swim Club under Head Coach Neal Kolhase at the Los Angeles Swim Stadium. The Lynwood Club went undefeated in trail competitions, defeating the Los Angeles Swim Stadium team, and the El Segundo Swim Club teams. Team mate Ron Vollmer had attended Compton college with Gordie, and Olympic team mate Bob Horn would later coach water polo at UCLA and serve as a U.S. Olympic water polo coach.
1960 Rome Olympics
Hall was a member of the American water polo team which finished seventh in the 1960 Olympic tournament. He played three matches as goalkeeper under Neal Kohlhase and Assistant Olympic Coach Urho Saari. The team from Italy won the gold, Russia took the silver, and perennial favorite Hungary took the bronze.
In non-Olympic international competition, Hall was a member of the U.S. National team that won a silver medal at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo, Brazil.
During the span of his water polo career competing in AAU competition from 1956-1964, he usually played goalkeeper, and competed on teams that won National championships in four successive years from 1960-1963.
Life outside water polo
Hall later worked in Aerospace Engineering, and as a consulting aerospace engineer. After leaving his aerospace careers, he settled in Maui, Hawaii and sold real estate. He competed in outrigger canoes during his time in Hawaii, and trained in outrigger canoe competition with the United States Masters's organization.
