Bronte Barratt

Career

Bronte Barratt lives in Brisbane and starts for the Albany Creek Swim Club. She is granddaughter of the athlete and Olympian Margaret Johnson. First achievements came as a junior, as by winning nine national championship titles at the age of 15 years or winning five gold medals at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships. Her international breakthrough came in the Elite range they had at the World Swimming Championships in 2005 in Montreal, where she won the silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in Australia. The following year she won at the Short Course World Championships in Shanghai with the title of the season. On the 400 m track, she won silver. At the Pan Pacific Championships, also in 2006, in Victoria, she won silver again with the 4 × 200m relay. There was also a third rank over 200 meters and fifth in the 400m. 2007 Barratt missed the 4 × 200m relay team at the World Championships in Melbourne in fourth place when a medal. The other races did not run well over 200 meters, it failed in the semi-finals, the 400m in the heats.

In the road to success Barratt was back before the Olympics. In the Short Course World Championships in Manchester, she won bronze in the 4 × 200m freestyle relay and missed as fourth in the 400m another medal just barely. At the Beijing Games, the Australian went to three routes. First, she finished seventh in the 400m; the same position it reached about 200 m. For the most successful career of winning the gold medal in a world record time of 7:44,31 minutes on the side of Stephanie Rice, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie with the 4 × 200m freestyle relay was.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi Barratt won the 4x200 -meter freestyle relay.

Records