Angie Bainbridge
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| Full name | Angie Lee Bainbridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
16 October 1989 Newcastle, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Hunter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Angie Lee Bainbridge, OAM[1] (born 16 October 1989) is an Australian freestyle swimmer who specialises in the 200-metre event. She is also a Junior School teacher at Northholm Grammar School.
At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as a member of the 4×100-metre and 4×200-metre freestyle relay squads by coming sixth and third in the respective individual events.
She was not used as the Australians won bronze in the shorter race. She then swam the preliminary heats of the longer relay, and collected gold when the first-choice quartet won the final in a world record time.
In 2009, she received the Medal of the Order of Australia "For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games".[1]
She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Bainbridge, Angie Lee". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ↑ AIS at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.