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Full name | Katherine Bailey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Kate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 13 February 1982 43) Sydney, New South Wales | (age|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Katherine "Kate" Bailey (born 13 February 1982) [1] is a Paralympic medalist swimmer 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. [2] At the 2004 Athens Games, she competed in four events and repeated her medal results from Sydney winning two bronze medals in the women's 100 m butterfly S9 and women's 4 × 100 m medley 34 pts events. [3] She competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England as part of the Australian women's team. [4] At the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar Del Plata, Argentina she won three gold medals and one silver medal. [5]
She was coached by Graeme 'Grub' Carroll at the Warringah Aquatic Swim Club. [6] From 2002 to 2005 she was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder. [3] She was also a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.