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Full name | Chantel Louise Wolfenden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 15 January 1986 37) Lithgow, New South Wales | (age|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chantel Louise Wolfenden, OAM [1] (born 15 January 1986) [2] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. Born in the New South Wales town of Lithgow, [2] she started to swim at the age of five as therapy for cerebral palsy. She underwent three operations to cut and lengthen her achilles tendon. [3]
She competed at the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar Del Plata, Argentina winning a gold medal in the women's 400m Freestyle S7 and two silver medals in the women's 100m Backstroke and women's 100m Freestyle S7 events.
At the 2004 Athens Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, [1] a silver medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S7 event, and four bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S7, Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM7, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts and Women's 4 × 100 m Medley 34 pts events. [4]
She swam for the Fairmead Swim Club in Bundaberg, Queensland and was coached by Paul Simms. [3] Between 2002 and 2006, she was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder. [5] She was also a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder. [5]
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Ellie Victoria Cole, is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. Following the 2012 London Paralympics, where she won four gold and two bronze medals, Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, winning five medals, including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In claiming her seventeenth Paralympic medal in Tokyo, Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian with six gold, five silver and six bronze medals from four Paralympic Games.
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