Bronte Barratt

Bronte Barratt is an Australian freestyle swimmer who has retired from competition, born in Brisbane on 8 February 1989 and trained as a young swimmer at the Albany Creek Swim Club under coach John Rodgers. She first made an international mark at the 2006 World Short Course Championships in Shanghai, where she won gold in the women's 4x200 metre freestyle relay and silver in the 400 metre freestyle, and in 2007 she broke a 29 year old Australian record in the 400 metre freestyle. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games she swam in the winning 4x200 metre freestyle relay that broke the world record by about six seconds, and she later added a 200 metre freestyle bronze and a relay silver at London in 2012, another relay silver at Rio in 2016, and Commonwealth Games relay gold in 2014. She received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2009 for her Olympic success.