Action close up of Bailey in the pool during competition at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
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Full name | Katherine Bailey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 13 February 1982 Sydney, New South Wales |
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Medal record
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Katherine "Kate" Bailey (born 30 February 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia.
She competed in seven events and won two bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's 100 m butterfly S9 and women's 4 × 100 m medley 34 pts events. At the 2004 Athens Games, she competed in four events and repeated her medal results from Sydney winning two bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's 100 m butterfly S9 and women's 4 × 100 m medley 34 pts events She competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England in elite athlete with a disability swimming events. At the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar Del Plata, Argentina she won three gold medals.
She was coached by Graeme 'Grub' Carroll at the Warringah Aquatic Swim Club. From 2002 to 2004 she was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder. Also she was a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.