Bronte Campbell

Bronte Campbell
Personal information
Full name Bronte Campbell
National team  Australia
Born (1994-05-14) 14 May 1994
Blantyre, Malawi
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Commercial SC
Coach Simon Cusack

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]

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.

With Cate Campbell in Kazan 2015

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]

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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bronte Campbell".
  2. ↑ "Campbell Sisters to swim in London".
  3. ↑ Women's 50m Freestyle: Heats, London2012.com
  4. ↑ "Final results of Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships" (pdf). Omega Timing. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.

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Records
Preceded by
Florent Manaudou, Jérémy Stravius, Mélanie Henique, Anna Santamans		 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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