Bronte Campbell
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| Full name | Bronte Campbell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 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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Medal record
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Bronte Campbell OAM (born 14 May 1994) is an Australian competitive swimmer who is an Olympic gold-winner, world champion, and world record-holder. Her older sister Cate is also a competitive swimmer who holds the current world record in both the short and long course 100 metre individual freestyle events. 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. Bronte Campbell won three gold medals at the 2015 World Championships, including the 50 and 100 metre freestyle events.
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.
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.
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.
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