Rick Pendleton
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| Full name | Rick Pendleton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 January 1985 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | University of Sunshine Coast Spartans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Jan Cameron (coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rick Pendleton, OAM[1] (born 12 January 1985) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer from Sydney. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics.[2] He will be attending his fourth Games.
Personal
He was born without his left hand. He turned to swimming after his rugby league career was ended by a knee ligament injury. He attended high school at Marcellin College Randwick.[3] He is married to Jemma and they have a daughter Amara.[4]
Career
He has won five Paralympic gold medals. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the 4×100 m medley 34pts event, and two gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Games, at the 4×100 m medley 34pts and 200 m individual medley SM10 events.[5] At the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships in Durban, South Africa he won a silver medal in the 200m individual medley and bronze in the 100m breaststroke.[5]
In 2011, at the age of 26, he competed in the Can-Am Swimming Open, where he earned a gold medal in the S10 200m butterfly event, a silver medal in the men’s SM10 200 m individual medley, and a bronze in the 100m freestyle event.[6]
Prior to the 2012 London Paralympics, he moved to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland to be coached by Jon Shaw.[7] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay 34pts and a bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley SM10.[5]
Competing at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, he won a bronze medal in the 100 m breaststroke SB9.[8] He finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts, fifth in the 200 m individual medley SM10, ninth in the 100 m butterfly S10 and eleventh in the 50 m freestyle S10.[9]
He works as a swimming coach at Matthew Flinders Anglican College's Flinders Swim Club.[10] As of 2015, he is coached by Jan Cameron at the University of the Sunshine Coast.[11]
Recognition
In 2009, he received a Medal of the Order of Australia for his 2008 gold medals.[1] He was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder.[12]
His philosophy is ""It only takes a moment to lose, it takes a lifetime to forget. Even coal under pressure becomes a diamond." [4]
References
- 1 2 "Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)". ABC News. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Govorcin, Damir (9 November 2008). "Marcellin honours old boy for Paralympic golds". The Catholic Weekly. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- 1 2 "Rick Pendelton". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 Results for Rick Pendleton from the International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ↑ "Sport News". Paralympic.org. 2011-12-12. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ↑ "Rick Pendelton". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ↑ "Aussies add two silver and two bronze on Day 3 in Glasgow". Swimming Australia News. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "Rick Pendleton results". Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Flinders Swim Club". Matthew Flinders Anglican College. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ↑ "Jan Cameron joins elite coaching group with Platinum recognition". Swimming Australia website. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ↑ "AIS at the Paralympics". Australian Sports Commission Website. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
External links
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