Bronte Barratt

Bronte Barratt
Personal information
Surname:	Bronte Amelia Arnold Barratt
Nation:	Australia
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	Albany Creek Swim Club
Birthday:	February 8, 1989
Place of birth:	Brisbane
Size:	1.71 m
Weight:	59 kg
Medal table

Bronte Amelia Arnold Barratt (born February 8, 1989 in Brisbane , Queensland ) is an Australian freestyle swimmer .

Career

Bronte Barratt lives in Brisbane and starts for the Albany Creek Swim Club . She is granddaughter of track and field athlete Margaret Johnson . She celebrated her first successes as a junior, for example by winning nine national championship titles at the age of 15 or winning five gold medals at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships. She had her international breakthrough in the elite sector at the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montreal , where she won the silver medal in Australia's 4 × 200m freestyle relay. The following year she won the relay title at the World Short Course Championships in Shanghai . She won silver on the 400 m course. At the Pan-Pacific Championships, also in 2006, in Victoria , she again won silver with the 4 × 200m relay. There was also a third place over 200 m and fifth place over 400 m. In 2007 Barratt missed a medal in the 4 × 200m relay at the World Championships in Melbourne when he finished fourth. The other races did not go well either, over 200 m she failed in the semi-finals, over 400 m in the prelims.

Barratt found his way back to success before the Olympic Games . At the World Short Course Championships in Manchester , she won bronze in the 4 × 200m freestyle relay and just barely missed another medal in fourth over 400m. At the Games in Beijing , the Australian competed over three routes. First she was seventh over 400 m; she achieved the same placement over 200 m. The greatest success of his career was winning the gold medal in the world record time of 7: 44.31 minutes alongside Stephanie Rice , Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie in the 4 × 200m freestyle relay.

At the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi , Barratt won the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. She also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, as well as bronze in the 200 meters and 400 meters freestyle.

Records

World records (1)
4 × 200 m freestyle (with Rice , Palmer , Mackenzie )	07: 44.31 min	August 14, 2008	Beijing
(As of August 14, 2008)

Web links

• Bronte Barratt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Portrait on the website of the Australian Association
• Bronte Barratt in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.australianspeaker.com/cgi-bin/fsp.pl/x/austrn/speaker1070.html ( Memento from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )