Cate Campbell

Cate Campbell
Country	Australia
Sport	Swimming
Best events	Freestyle
Olympic Games	Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio de Janeiro 2016 Tokyo 2020
Olympic medals
Gold
Silver
Bronze
4
1
3
Personal information
Full name	Cate Natalie Campbell
Date of birth	20 May 1992
Birthplace	Blantyre, Blantyre, Malawi
Height	186 cm (6' 1")
Hometown	Morningside, Queensland, Australia

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Cate Campbell is a swimmer who has competed for Australia. She competed at the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

Campbell started her Olympic career, as a 17-year-old, in Beijing 2008. There, she and her teammates Alice Mills, Melanie Schlanger, and Lisbeth Trickett beat the fast-pacing Chinese women to lock the podium with a bronze and an Oceanian record time (3:35.05) in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay. In the 50 metres freestyle, she edged out the world record holder and her teammate Trickett to snatch a bronze with a time of 24.17.

Four years later in London, Campbell helped the Australian women's team of Schlanger, Alicia Coutts, and Brittany Elmslie put together a blazing finish to reclaim their 4x100 metres freestyle title with a new Olympic record (3:33.15). She scratched her first individual race in the 100 metres freestyle because of a glandular fever, but she rebounded from illness to take the seventh spot and thirteenth overall in her semifinal heat of the 50.

At her third Games in 2016, Campbell recorded the fastest split of the field on the last leg to set a new world record time (3:30.65) and defend the title for the Australian women in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay. She also received a silver as a freestyle swimmer of the Australian women's team in the 4x100 metres medley relay. On the individual side, she entered the finals of the sprint freestyle double (50 and 100), but she slipped off the podium to fifth in the 50 and sixth in the 100.

Campbell was selected to carry the Australian flag during the opening ceremony with Patty Mills in Tokyo 2020. She also joined Leisel Jones and Emily Seebohm as the only Australian swimmers to ever compete at fourth straight Games. In the 4x100 metres freestyle relay, she and her sister Bronte, Emma McKeon, and Meg Harris cleared the 3:30 barrier to smash their own world record (3:29.69) and defend their title for the third straight time. She also added her second individual medal to her haul with a bronze in the 100 metres freestyle, trailing the winner McKeon and the runner-up Siobhán Haughey by 0.56 of a second. She closed out her Olympic career by receiving another gold as a freestyle swimmer of the Australian women's team in the 4x100 metres medley relay.

Olympic Results

Year	Event	Result
2008	Women's 50m freestyle
	Women's 100m freestyle	10th
	Women's 4x100m freestyle relay
2012	Women's 50m freestyle	13th
	Women's 4x100m freestyle relay
2016	Women's 50m freestyle	5th
	Women's 100m freestyle	6th
	Women's 4x100m freestyle relay
	Women's 4x100m medley relay
2020	Women's 50m freestyle	7th
	Women's 100m freestyle
	Women's 4x100m freestyle relay
	Women's 4x100m medley relay

2008

Discipline	Round	Time
50 metres freestyle	Heats	24.20
	Semifinal	24.42
	Final	24.17
100 metres freestyle	Heats	54.55
	Semifinal	54.54
	Final	Did not advance
4x100 metres freestyle relay	Heats	3:37.81 (54.65 split)
	Final	3:35.05 (54.43 split)

2012

Discipline	Round	Time
50 metres freestyle	Heats	24.94
	Semifinal	25.01
	Final	Did not advance
4x100 metres freestyle relay	Heats	3:36.34 (Reserve)
	Final	3:33.15 (53.19 split)

2016

Discipline	Round	Time
50 metres freestyle	Heats	24.52
	Semifinal	24.32
	Final	24.15
100 metres freestyle	Heats	52.78	OR
	Semifinal	52.71	OR
	Final	53.24
4x100 metres freestyle relay	Heats	3:32.39 (51.80 split)	OR
	Final	3:30.65 (51.97 split)	WR
4x100 metres medley relay	Heats	3:57.80 (Reserve)
	Final	3:55.00 (52.17 split)

2020

Discipline	Round	Time
50 metres freestyle	Heats	24.15
	Semifinal	24.27
	Final	24.36
100 metres freestyle	Heats	52.80
	Semifinal	52.71
	Final	52.52
4x100 metres freestyle relay	Heats	3:31.73 (Reserve)
	Final	3:29.69 (52.24 split)	WR
4x100 metres medley relay	Heats	3:55.39 (Reserve)
	Final	3:51.60 (52.11 split)	OR