Bronte Campbell
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| Full name | Bronte Campbell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Australia |
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| Born | 14 May 1994 Blantyre, Malawi |
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| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Commercial SC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Simon Cusack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bronte Campbell (born 14 May 1994) is an Australian competitive swimmer who is an Olympic athlete, world champion, and world record-holder. Her older sister Cate is also a swimmer who won two bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bronte and Cate were the first Australian siblings on the same Olympic swimming team since the 1972 Olympics, and the first Australian sisters ever to compete in the same swimming event at the Olympics.[1][2] Bronte Campbell won three gold medals at the 2015 World Championships, including the 50- and 100-metres freestyle events.
Career
Her family moved from Malawi to Australia in 2001 and she and Cate joined the Indooroopilly Swimming Club in Brisbane that same year. Their coach at Commercial, Simon Cusack, continues to coach both sisters.
In 2009, Bronte won gold in the 50-metre freestyle at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival then in 2011, she won gold in the same event at the 2011 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru.
2012
Campbell competed in the women's 50-meter freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She and her sister Cate swam in the same heat, finishing second and third, respectively, and qualifying for the semi-final in ninth and tenth place, respectively.[3]
2013
At the 2013 Australian Swimming Championships she won silver in the 50- and 100-metre freestyle events finishing behind sister Cate in both and qualified for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships. At the World Championships, she teamed up with Cate, Emma McKeon and Alicia Coutts in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay where they won the silver medal, finishing 0.12 of a second behind the United States.[4]
2014
Competing at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, she won two silver medals, one in the 50-metre freestyle event (timing 23.62) behind Ranomi Kromowidjojo, and the other in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay behind the Danish team. She finished fourth (timing 51.65) in the finals of the 100-metre freestyle event, behind Femke Heemskerk, Ranomi Kromowidjojo and Sarah Sjöström.[5]
2015
At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, she won three gold medals and one bronze. She finished first in the 100-metre freestyle event (in 52.52), beating Sarah Sjöström and Cate Campbell,[6] and the 50-metre freestyle event (in 24.12), beating Ranomi Kromowidjojo and Sarah Sjöström.
She also won gold in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, beating the dutch and US teams by a comfortable lead,[7] and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay behind the Chinese and Swedish teams.[8]
See also
References
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| Preceded by | Mixed 4 × 50 metres freestyle relay world record-holder 10 November 2013 – 14 December 2013 With: Regan Leong (10 November to 10 November), Tomaso D'Orsogna, Travis Mahoney, Cate Campbell |
Succeeded by Sergey Fesikov, Vladimir Morozov, Rozaliya Nasretdinova, Veronika Popova |
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- 1994 births
- Australian female swimmers
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- People from Blantyre
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Sportspeople from Brisbane
- World record holders in swimming
