Bronte Campbell Biography – Bronte Campbell Wiki
Bronte Campbell is a Malawian-born Australian competitive swimmer, a dual Olympic gold-medal winner, and world champion. Her older sister, Cate, is also a competitive swimmer, and once held world records in both the short and long course 100-metre individual freestyle events. Bronte and Cate are the first Australian siblings on the same Olympic swimming team since the 1972 Olympics and the first Australian sisters ever to compete in the same swimming event at the Olympics. Bronte won three gold medals at the 2015 World Championships, including the 50 and 100-meter freestyle events. She is a contestant in Australia’s Celebrity Apprentice 2022. Her goal is to raise money for Carers Australia, a non-profit organization seeking to cater to Australia’s unpaid carers.
Her 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, she won gold in the 50-meter 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. In 2012, she 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. 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-meter freestyle relay where they won the silver medal, finishing 0.12 of a second behind the United States.
Competing at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, she won two silver medals, one in the 50-meter freestyle event (timing 23.62) behind Ranomi Kromowidjojo, and the other in the 4 × 100-meter 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. At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, she won three gold medals and one bronze. She finished first in the 100-meter freestyle event (in 52.52), beating Sarah Sjöström and her sister Cate, and in the 50-meter 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, and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay behind the Chinese and Swedish teams.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she 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). Despite being the reigning world champion in the 50 and 100 m freestyle, she did not win a medal in these events. At the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, she won gold in the 4x100m freestyle, silver in the 50m freestyle, gold in the 100m freestyle, and gold in the 4x100m medley relay. She starred in Head Above Water, a documentary series focusing on 4 Australian swimmers: Ian Thorpe, Kyle Chalmers, Cody Simpson, and Campbell herself.
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. She is coached by the highly regarded Simon Cusack at Knox Pymble Swim Club. She is also a poet, writing poems and reading them out to the swim team before a competition to give them motivation. She undertook her studies at the Queensland University of Technology, where she is studying Business, and majoring in Public Relations.
Bronte Campbell Age
She was born on May 14, 1994, in Blantyre, Malawi.
Bronte Campbell Boyfriend
She is dating her boyfriend named Benfield Lainchbury. Benfield is a 32-year-old businessman and singer.
Bronte Campbell Family
She 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. She shares a birthday with Hamish, with Hamish being four years younger. Her mother Jenny, used to be a synchronised swimmer and taught her four daughters to swim.
Until December 2016, she lived with her sister, Cate who is also a swimmer. As of 2017, they are no longer housemates, and she currently resides in Coorparoo.
Bronte Campbell Height/ Weight
She stands at a listed height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.79 meters) tall and weighs up to 58 kilograms (128 lb).
Bronte Campbell Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @bronte_campbell.
