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| Full name | Chantel Louise Wolfenden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 January 1986 (1986-01-15) (age 39) Lithgow, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chantel Louise Wolfenden, OAM (born 15 January 1986) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. Born in the New South Wales town of Lithgow, she started to swim at the age of five as therapy for cerebral palsy. She underwent three operations to cut and lengthen her achilles tendon.
She competed at the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar Del Plata, Argentina winning a gold medal in the women's 400m Freestyle S7 and two silver medals in the women's 100m Backstroke and women's 100m Freestyle S7 events.
At the 2004 Athens Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, a silver medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S7 event, and four bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S7, Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM7, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts and Women's 4 × 100 m Medley 34 pts events.
She swam for the Fairmead Swim Club in Bundaberg, Queensland and was coached by Paul Simms. Between 2002 and 2006, she was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder. She was also a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder.
References
- ^ "Wolfenden, Chantel Louise, OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ Australian Paralympic Committee (2004). Media guide : 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. Sydney, Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee.
- ^ "Wolfenden on track for six Paralympic medals". News Mail. 25 September 2004. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "AIS Roll of Honour for the Paralympics". Australian Sports Commission Website. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors
- Swimmers with cerebral palsy
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Sportspeople from Bundaberg
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimmers
- 1986 births
- Living people
- People from Lithgow, New South Wales
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- Australian female backstroke swimmers
- Australian female medley swimmers
- S7-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen