Brooke Hanson

Brooke Hanson is an Australian former competitive swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion and former world record holder, born on 18 March 1978. A swimmer since the age of four, she was the youngest member of the Australian team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and returned to major competition eight years later in the breaststroke events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she won a gold medal as part of the Australian 4x100 metre medley relay team by swimming the breaststroke leg in a heat, and a silver in the 100-metre breaststroke, finishing 0.01 seconds ahead of Leisel Jones. Weeks later she won six gold medals, five of them individual, at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis.