CAMPBELL Bronte

Date of Birth: 14 May 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Place of birth: BLANTYRE

Birth Country:

Malawi

Place of residence : SYDNEY, NSW

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay AUS Australia	1
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay AUS Australia	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	4x100Free W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (24.42)	4th (53.04)	1st (3:30.65)
2012	London, GBR	SF (24.94)	-	-

World Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	8th (24.48)	-	1st (3:30.21)	2nd (3:19.97)	-	1st
2017	Budapest, HUN	6th (24.58)	7th (53.18)	2nd (3:32.01)	-	3rd (3:54.29)	2nd (3:41.21)
2015	Kazan, RUS	1st (24.12)	1st (52.52)	1st (3:31.48)	-	3rd (3:55.56)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	5th (24.66)	SF (54.46)	2nd (3:32.43)	-	-	-

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

C2, Bront, Brontezaurus (swimkids.com.au, 15 Feb 2013; swimswam.com, 23 Jul 2017)

Poetry, watching television, playing the guitar. (gc2018.com, 01 Jan 2017; womenshealth.com.au, 01 Oct 2017)

Occupation:

Partner Benfield Lainchbury

Languages spoken:

English, German

Knox Pymble Swim Club [Sydney, NSW, AUS]

Simon Cusack [personal]

Sporting relatives:

Her older sister Cate Campbell has represented Australia in swimming. She competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, winning gold in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay in 2016. She has also won multiple world championship gold medals. Her partner Benfield Lainchbury has played for Wests Bulldogs Rugby Union Club in Toowong, QLD, Australia and is a musician. (The Courier-Mail, 29 Aug 2020; news.com.au, 10 Aug 2018; Instagram profile, 28 Dec 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 21 Feb 2020)

She was hampered by hip and shoulder injuries in the lead-up and during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She took two months out of the pool after the Games. She continued to suffer issues with her left shoulder and then her right in the lead-up to the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (swimswam.com, 06 Sep 2016, 23 Jul 2017)

She was hampered by a hip injury from November 2015 until February 2016. (au.news.yahoo.com, 05 Feb 2016)

She had glandular fever and chronic fatigue syndrome in 2010 that disrupted her career for two years. (smh.com.au, 10 Apr 2012)

She began swimming as a child in Lake Malawi, Malawi. She joined a swimming club at age seven after her family moved to Brisbane, QLD, Australia. (smh.com.au, 10 Apr 2012)

She was inspired to take up the sport after watching the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. (swimkids.com.au, 15 Feb 2013)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sbs.com.au, 15 Jun 2019)

Winning gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (results.gc2018.com, 01 Oct 2017)

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, Australian swimmer Grant Hackett. (gc2018.com, 01 Jan 2017; sustagen-sport.com.au, 10 Apr 2012; NOC, 10 Apr 2012)

Coach Simon Cusack. (results.gc2018.com, 01 Oct 2017)

Philosophy:

"Not the victory, but the action. Not the goal, but the effort. In the deed, the glory." (NOC, 10 Apr 2012)

In 2016 she received a Patron Award at the Swimming Australia gala awards night. (ginarinehart.com.au, 06 Nov 2016)

She was jointly named the 2015 Female Australian Swimmer of the Year, sharing the award with Emily Seebohm. (swimswam.com, 07 Sep 2015)

She won the 2014 Golden Moment Award from Swimming Australia for her part in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay team's world record-breaking swim at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (swimswam.com, 22 Dec 2014)

In 2014 she was inducted into the Australian Path of Champions, which recognises the achievements of Australia's top athletes. (swimswam.com, 21 Oct 2014)

General Interest

General
LEADER
She was named to the Australian national team leadership group for 2019/20. "Leadership is something I am very passionate about, so to be able to represent my peers both on and off the team for the next two years, especially as we work towards Tokyo 2020 [Olympic Games] is something I am very proud of." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 01 Mar 2019)

BREAK
In 2018 she took a planned break from swimming and travelled in India, allowing her inflamed nerves, hip and shoulder to repair. "The hardest thing is they are injuries that nobody can really explain. The shoulder and neck started off as a nerve injury, the hip I had surgery on in 2015, so that just keeps rolling on. It's just trial and error to make it better. I've given up on a definite diagnosis. Basically, if I'm not swimming, it's fine. That seems to be the cure. It's not that surprising. I've been doing this since I was seven and now I'm 24. That's a lot of shoulder rotations." (smh.com.au, 20 Jul 2018; goldcoastbulletin.com.au, 14 Apr 2018)

SISTER ACT
She enjoys competing against her older sister and fellow Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell. "I actually really like it. You think there would be a horrible rivalry, and from the outside it should seem strange, but it's really quite nice when we're in the pool together. Mostly because there's someone else in the water that you want to do well, and if I'm going to be beaten I would rather it be someone that I love, so it does work quite well for us." (goldcoastbulletin.com.au, 09 Apr 2018; womenshealth.com.au, 01 Oct 2017)

FROM MALAWI TO AUSTRALIA
She was born in Malawi where her father Eric, originally from South Africa, was working as an accountant for a bank. She moved to Australia with her family at age seven. (olympics.com.au, 10 Apr 2012)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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