Bronte Campbell

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Bronte Campbell
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Personal information
National teamFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1994-05-14) 14 May 1994 (age 30)
Blantyre, Malawi
Height179 cm (5 ft 10 in) [1]
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Commercial SC
CoachSimon Cusack
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 301
World Championships (LC) 542
World Championships (SC) 020
Pan Pacific Championships 120
Commonwealth Games 521
World Junior Championships 101
Total15105
Women's swimming
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Paris 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m mixed medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Kazan 50 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Kazan 100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Kazan 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 Gwangju 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Barcelona 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Budapest 4x100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2017 Budapest 4x100 m mixed medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 Gwangju 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Kazan 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2017 Budapest 4x100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Doha 50 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Doha 4×100 m medley
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Gold Coast 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Gold Coast 50 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Gold Coast 100 m freestyle
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast 100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Gold Coast 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 50 m freestyle
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Lima 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Lima 100 m freestyle

Bronte Campbell OAM (born 14 May 1994) is a Malawian-born Australian competitive swimmer. A four time Olympian, Campbell is a triple Olympic gold medallist and a former World Champion in the 50 and 100 m freestyle, having won both titles in 2015.

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Her older sister Cate is also a competitive swimmer, and in 2012, the two became the first Australian siblings on the same Olympic swimming team since 1972. They are the first Australian sisters to ever compete within the same swimming event, also having claimed gold together in the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay in 2016 and 2021. [2] [3]

Early life

Campbell is the second of five children born to Eric (an accountant) and Jenny (a nurse) Campbell. She has an older sister, Cate, two younger sisters and a younger brother, Jessica, Abigail and Hamish. Hamish has severe cerebral palsy and requires around-the-clock care. [4] She shares a birthday with Hamish, with Hamish being four years younger. [5] Jenny used to be a synchronised swimmer and taught her four daughters to swim. [6]

Career

Campbell's 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, Campbell won gold in the 50 metre freestyle at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival. In 2011, she won gold in the same event at the 2011 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru.

2012

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 and qualifying for the semi-final in ninth and tenth place, respectively. [7]

2013

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. [8]

2014

Competing at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, she won two silver medals, one in the 50 metre freestyle event (timing 23.62) behind Ranomi Kromowidjojo, and the other in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay behind the Danish team. She finished fourth (timing 51.65) in the finals of the 100-metre freestyle event, behind Femke Heemskerk, Ranomi Kromowidjojo and Sarah Sjöström. [9]

2015

With Cate Campbell (left) in Kazan 2015 Kazan 2015 - Victory Ceremony Campbell sisters 100m freestyle.JPG
With Cate Campbell (left) in Kazan 2015

At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, she won three gold medals and one bronze. She finished first in the 100 metre freestyle event (in 52.52), beating Sarah Sjöström and Cate Campbell, [10] and the 50 metre freestyle event (in 24.12), beating Ranomi Kromowidjojo and Sarah Sjöström.

She also won gold in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, beating the Dutch and US teams by a comfortable lead, [11] and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay behind the Chinese and Swedish teams. [12]

2016

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Campbell represented Australia in both the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, as well as the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (in which they came first and set a new world record). [13] Despite being the reigning world champion in the 50m and 100m freestyle, she did not win a medal in these events, finishing 7th and 4th, respectively, in the finals.

2018

At the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Campbell won gold in the 4x100m freestyle, silver in the 50m freestyle, gold in the 100m freestyle, and gold in the 4x100m medley relay. [14]

2021

Campbell starred in Head Above Water, a documentary series focusing on 4 Australian swimmers: Ian Thorpe, Kyle Chalmers, Cody Simpson, and Campbell herself. [15] Campbell qualified for her third Olympics in Tokyo. She won gold in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay and bronze in the 4x100m mixed medley relay. [16]

2022

In May 2022, Campbell appeared as a contestant on the sixth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia . [17]

2024

After an 18 month break from swimming following the Tokyo Games, Campbell returned to the pool under new coach Shannon Rollason in Canberra. In June 2024, she successfully qualified for her 4th Olympic Games in Paris in the Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle relay team, which wen ton to win gold in Paris. Campbell become only the 5th Australian swimmer to compete at four Olympics. [18]

Personal life

Campbell has completed her Business Degree at QUT Queensland University of Technology, , [19] majoring in Public Relations. [20] She has also launched a start-up sustainable activewear business Earthletica, which aims to create high quality activewear that is good for the planet. [21]

She is also a poet, writing poems and reading them out to the swim team before a competition to give them motivation. [22] [23]

Results in major championships

Meet50 freestyle100 freestyle4×100 free4×200 free4×100 medley4×100 Mixed free4×100 Mixed medley
OG 2012 10th
WC 2013 5th11thSilver medal icon.svg
CG 2014 Bronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
PP 2014 Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
SCW 2014 Silver medal icon.svg4thGold medal icon.svg
WC 2015 Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
OG 2016 7th4thGold medal icon.svg
WC 2017 6th7thSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
CG 2018 Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
WC 2019 8thGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
OG 2021 Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
OG 2024 Gold medal icon.svg

World records

Long course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
14x100 m freestyle relay [a] 3:30.98 2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, Scotland 24 July 2014Former [24]
24x100 m freestyle relay (2) [b] 3:30.65 2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6 August 2016Former [25]
34x100 m freestyle relay (3) [c] 3:30.05 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Queensland 5 April 2018Former [26]
44x100 m freestyle relay (4) [d] 3:29.69 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2021Former [27]

a split 53.15 (1st leg); with Melanie Schlanger (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
b split 52.15 (3rd leg); with Emma McKeon (1st leg), Brittany Elmslie (2nd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
c split 52.99 (2nd leg); with Shayna Jack (1st leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
d split 53.01 (1st leg); with Meg Harris (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)

Short course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
14x50 m mixed freestyle relay [a] 1:31.13h 2013 FINA World Cup Tokyo, Japan 10 November 2013Former [28]
24x50 m mixed freestyle relay (2) [b] 1:29.61 2013 FINA World Cup Tokyo, Japan 10 November 2013Former [28]
Legend: OC – Oceanian record;NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

a split 24.03 (3rd leg); with Tomaso D'Orsogna (1st leg), Regan Leong (2nd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
b split 23.44 (4th leg); with Tomaso D'Orsogna (1st leg), Travis Mahoney (2nd leg), Cate Campbell (3rd leg)

Olympic records

Long course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusNotesRef
14x100 m freestyle relay [a] 3:32.39h 2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6 August 2016Former [29]
24x100 m freestyle relay [b] 3:30.65 2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6 August 2016FormerFormer WR , OC , NR [29]
34x100 m freestyle relay [c] 3:29.69 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2021FormerFormer WR , OC , NR [30]
Legend: WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

a split 53.26 (3rd leg); with Madison Wilson (1st leg ), Brittany Elmslie (2nd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
b split 52.15 (3rd leg); with Emma McKeon (1st leg), Brittany Elmslie (2nd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
c split 53.01 (1st leg); with Meg Harris (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)

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Records
Preceded by Mixed 4 × 50 metres freestyle relay world record-holder
10 November 2013 – 14 December 2013
With: Regan Leong (10 November to 10 November), Tommaso D'Orsogna, Travis Mahoney, Cate Campbell 		Succeeded by
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