Cate Campbell is an Australian amateur swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the existing multiple world record holder who captured a silver and gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Cate is recognised as the reigning World Record holder in the 100m Freestyle Short Course and the 4×100m Freestyle Relay for Team Australia. In the 2008 Olympics, she qualified 50 m of freestyle semi-finals in 24.20 seconds.

10 Facts About Cate Campbell:

1. Cate Campbell was born to father Eric and mother Jenny as the oldest daughter of five brothers. Her father worked as an accountant while her mother was a nurse.
2. In 2001, Campbell and her family moved from Malawi to Australia at the age of 9. She spent much of her childhood with her siblings, Hamish, Jessica, Bronte, and Abigail.
3. Campbell’s brother Hamish suffers from serious cerebral palsy. Her sister Bronte is also the Olympic gold medalist and swimmer champion of the world.
4. The Australian swimmer Cate set a new Australian and Commonwealth record with a freestyle time of 24.48 seconds in 2008. She set the record-breaking compatriot Libby Trickett.
5. Cate was born on May 20, 1992, to the parents of South Africans in Blantyre, Malawi. She is an Australian national and represents Australia in a number of Olympic Games and World Championships.
6. The 28-year-old swimmer has a height of 6 feet 1 inch and a weight of 74 kg. She graduated from Kenmore State High School in Brisbane, Queensland.
7. Campbell attended the University of Technology in Queensland in 2011. She has a degree in Mass Media.
8. Since having been affected by glandular fever, she was unable to compete in 2010 and 2011. She’s one of the participating participants of the QUT Elite Athlete program.
9. Her history, profession, accomplishments, and personal information can be found on Wikipedia. In addition, the bio of her sister Bronte is also available on Wiki.
10. Cate has achieved enormous attention on her confirmed Instagram account. She’s got more than 13k followers on Facebook.

Facts of Cate Campbell