Rick Pendleton
Pendleton in 2008
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| Full name | Rick Pendleton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Rick Pendleton, OAM (born 12 January 1985) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer from Sydney. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, his fourth Games.
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. He is married to Jemma and they have a daughter Amara.
He has won five Paralympic 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. 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.
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.
Prior to the 2012 London Paralympics, he moved to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland to be coached by Jon Shaw. 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.
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