Bronte CAMPBELL

Australie

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Première participationLondres 2012

Année de naissance1994

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Biographie

Bronte Campbell, with gold medals at the Olympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games, stands as one of the most accomplished Australian swimmers.

She secured gold in the women’s 4x100m freestyle at both the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics, along with a bronze in the 4x100m mixed medley in Tokyo. Additionally, Campbell has been a world champion in the 100m freestyle swimming event.

The Australian Dolphin, despite battling several injuries and challenges in her career, has won a total of 13 senior world championship medals, including five golds. All of her medals have come in freestyle and medley events over 50m or 100m distances.

Adding to her growing list of accomplishments, Campbell is a part of the Australian swimming team for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Campbell, who made her Olympic debut as an 18-year-old at London 2012, will become only the fifth Australian to swim at four Olympics in Paris.

Outside the pool, Bronte is a poet, a business consultant, a motivational speaker and a former president of the Australian Swimmers Association, having served in the role from 2018 to 2023.

Born on May 14, 1994, in Blantyre, Malawi, Bronte Campbell moved to Australia with her family at the age of seven, eventually settling in Brisbane.

After spending her childhood swimming in Lake Malawi, she was inspired to take up competitive swimming after watching the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

Together with her older sister Cate, Bronte joined the Indooroopilly Swimming Club in Brisbane.

Her first major international breakthrough came in 2011 when she won the gold medal in the 50m freestyle event at the World Junior Championships in Lima. The following year, she was selected in the Australian swimming team for the London 2012 Olympics.

When Bronte and Cate stood on the blocks for the 50m freestyle race at the London 2012 Games, they became the first Australian sisters to compete in the same event at the same Olympics. However, neither managed to progress to the final.

Bronte returned empty-handed from London 2012 while Cate bagged a gold medal in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay.

The pressure of constant comparison with her sister Cate, who had won two bronze medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympics as a 15-year-old, was a significant challenge for Bronte.

Despite the pressure, training alongside her sister provided Bronte with a clear vision of what it takes to succeed consistently at the top level.

The sisters teamed up in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona to win a silver medal and followed it up with another silver at the short course World Championships in 2014. Their success continued at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where they won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay with a world record.

Bronte emerged from her sister’s shadow at the 2015 World Championships, winning gold in the individual 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle, becoming only the third woman in history to hold both titles simultaneously. She also clinched gold with the 4x100m freestyle relay team.

Bronte’s first Olympic gold came in Rio 2016 as part of Australia’s 4x100m freestyle team, where Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Cate and Bronte set a new world record of 3:30.65.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast added three more golds and a silver to her collection. This included a memorable victory over Cate in the 100m freestyle.

At the 2019 World Championships, Bronte added two more golds and a silver to her already stacked cabinet.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Bronte and her team defended the 4x100m freestyle title with another world record. Bronte also competed in the 4x100m mixed medley relay and clinched a bronze.

Bronte took an 18-month hiatus from swimming when she returned from Tokyo to reassess her life choices. She also made some television appearances on Celebrity Apprentice Australia and the documentary Head Above Water.

The Aussie swimmer returned to training in early 2023 in a bid to make the Dolphins team for her fourth Olympics.

At the 2023 Australian National Shortcourse Championships, she won gold in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle. Early in 2024, she picked up a gold in the 50m freestyle at the NSW State Championships along with silver in the 100m freestyle.

She made the final of the 100m freestyle at the 2024 Australian Championships in Gold Coast in April and booked a spot in the team for Paris as a relay swimmer by finishing fourth in the 100m final at the Olympic trials in Brisbane.