Brenden Hall
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Hall
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| Full name | Brenden Hall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Junior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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27 May 1993 Nambour, Queensland, Australia |
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S9, SB8, SM9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Lawnton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Harley Connolly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Brenden Hall OAM is an Australian Paralympic amputee swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics where he won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
Hall was born on 27 May 1993 in the Queensland town of Nambour. At the age of six, he had his right leg amputated after complications from chicken pox. The disease also resulted in the loss of 70% of his hearing. Initially he was confined to a wheelchair but in the mid 2000s he was fitted with a prosthetic leg. Hall said "didn’t really care how I walked, just that I could walk". Hall attended Petrie State School. He lives in the suburb of Petrie and is studying exercise science at the University of Queensland. He is an ambassador for the Aspiration for Kids programme. and Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association’s Game Changers. .
Before his amputation, he was a member of a mini development squad and returned to swimming after his amputation had healed. He made his international swimming debut at the 2007 Arafura Games. He was the youngest male on the Australian swimming team at the 2008 Beijing Games. He competed in the Men's 400 m Freestyle S9 and came 5th in the final. He broke the Paralympic record in his heat. At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven he won gold medals in the Men's 400m Freestyle S9, Men's 5 km Open Water S1-S10, Men's 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points (Heat) Men's 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 points (Heat). In 2011, at the Queensland Swimming Championships he broke world records in the 800 m and 1500 m Freestyle events.
At the 2012 London Games, he won two gold medals in the Men's 400 m Freestyle S9 and Men's 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points and a bronze medal in the Men's 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 points. He also participated in the S9 class of the Men's 100 m Backstroke, 100 m Butterfly S9, 100 m Freestyle and 50 m Freestyle events – as well as the 200 m Individual Medley SM9.
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