2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Pasterfield
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Full name | Andrew Pasterfield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Pasty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
23 November 1989 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Castle Hill RSL Cranbrook Eastern Edge |
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Coach | Greg Morrison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andrew Bruce Pasterfield, OAM is a Paralympic swimmer from Australia.
Andrew Bruce Pasterfield competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won a gold medal in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay event.
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics Pasterfield won a gold in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points, and three bronzes in the Men's 50 m Freestyle S10, 100 m Freestyle S10 and Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 points. He also participated in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S10 and Men's 100 m Butterfly S10 events.
He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."
In 2016, he was awarded Speedo Services to the Australian Swim Team at the Swimming Australia Awards.