{"id":433575,"date":"2020-05-28T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=433575"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:57:36","slug":"beijing-olympians-bronte-barratt-and-patrick-murphy-welcome-son-william-to-australias-lovers-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/beijing-olympians-bronte-barratt-and-patrick-murphy-welcome-son-william-to-australias-lovers-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Olympians Bronte Barratt And Patrick Murphy Welcome Son William To Australia&#8217;s Lovers Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic golden girl <strong>Bronte Barratt <\/strong>and her 2008 Australian Beijing teammate and bronze medallist <strong>Patrick Murphy<\/strong> have welcomed the arrival of their first-born son William Oswald, to swimming&#8217;s lovers lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Olympian Barratt gave birth to the couple\u2019s healthy baby boy in Brisbane this week with William weighing in at 3.6kg and measuring 54cm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_433578\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433578\" data-attachment-id=\"433578\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/beijing-olympians-bronte-barratt-and-patrick-murphy-welcome-son-william-to-australias-lovers-lanes\/bronte-and-baby\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-baby.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"969,1134\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bronte and baby\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bronte and baby&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-baby-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-baby-875x1024.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-433578\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-baby-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Bronte and baby\" width=\"483\" height=\"345\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-433578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SMILE TIME: Golden girl Bronte Barratt all smiles and a beanie for \u00a0baby William. Photo Courtesy: Bronte Barratt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMini Murphy\u2026we love you!\u201d wrote Bronte in her Instagram posts as she and Pat welcomed baby number one into the world to brighten up this COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Messages of love and support have flowed in for the popular swimming couple, with friends and family and a host of fellow\u00a0Olympians (and potential babysitters) quick to congratulate the pair and little William, including <strong>Libby Trickett, Brooke Hanson, Sally Hunter, Grant Irvine, Fran Adcock, Jessicah Schipper, Koti Ngawati, Georgia Bohl, Brittany Elmslie, James Roberts, David McKeon, Emma McKeon, Travis Mahoney, Madi Wilson, Leah Neale, Annabelle Williams, Nicole Livingstone<\/strong> and <strong>Sophie Edington <\/strong>joined by\u00a0Australian-based Brits\u00a0<strong>Suki Brownsden <\/strong>and <strong>James Hickman, <\/strong>who already offered William his first\u00a0pair of Speedos.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_433580\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433580\" data-attachment-id=\"433580\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/beijing-olympians-bronte-barratt-and-patrick-murphy-welcome-son-william-to-australias-lovers-lanes\/bronte-and-steph-beijing\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-Steph-Beijing.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1125,1132\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bronte and Steph Beijing\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bronte and Steph Beijing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-Steph-Beijing-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-Steph-Beijing-1018x1024.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-433580\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bronte-and-Steph-Beijing-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Bronte and Steph Beijing\" width=\"205\" height=\"147\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-433580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GREEN AND GOLD GLORY: Bronte Barratt with fellow relay gold medallist and duel IM winner Stephanie Rice in Beijing 2008. Photo Courtesy: Bronte Barratt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bronte Barratt won gold in Australia\u2019s 4x200m freestyle relay in Beijing with <strong>Stephanie Rice, Linda Mackenzie<\/strong> and <strong>Kylie Palmer <\/strong>in 2008; adding individual bronze in the 200m freestyle; as well as silver and bronze in the 4x200m in London and Rio respectively in a glittering career.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy won a brace of bronze in Australia\u2019s 4&#215;100 and 4x200m freestyle relays in Beijing as the Aussies won medals in every relay for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy and Barratt have joined their fellow 2008 Olympians <strong>Melanie Schlanger <\/strong>and <strong>Chris Wright<\/strong> who have two children Madison and Thomas and <strong>Alice Mills<\/strong> who married British Olympic backstroker, proud Scotsman <strong>Gregor Tait<\/strong>, into the family way after Alice gave birth to their sons Vance in 2015 and Miller in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>All three couples live in South East Queensland \u2013 the Murphys and the Taits in Brisbane and the Wrights on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Lovers in lanes are certainly not uncommon in Australian swim teams with the likes of 1976 Montreal Olympic pairing <strong>Graham Windeatt<\/strong> marrying <strong>Nira Stove; Chris Fydler<\/strong> (1992-96-00) to <strong>Rosemary Brown<\/strong> (1980), <strong>Mark Stockwell <\/strong>(1984) to US triple Olympic gold medallist <strong>Tracey Caulkins<\/strong> (1984) and <strong>Glen Housman<\/strong> (1992 and 1996) to <strong>Jodie<\/strong> <strong>Clatworthy<\/strong> (1988) as did no fewer than three couples from Australia\u2019s 1982 Commonwealth Games team \u2013 <strong>Greg Fasala<\/strong> and <strong>Rickie Binning; Suzie Baumer<\/strong> and <strong>Tim Ford<\/strong> and <strong>Ron McKeon<\/strong> and <strong>Suzie Woodhouse<\/strong> (parents of Emma and David McKeon)..to name but a few!<\/p>\n<p>Definitely something in the water Down Under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic golden girl Bronte Barratt and her 2008 Australian Beijing teammate and bronze medallist Patrick Murphy have welcomed the arrival of their first-born son William Oswald, to swimming&#8217;s lovers lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7938,"featured_media":433564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122075],"tags":[13786,27041,25343,123529,4499,3749,27529,25315,27538,24517,31430,4956,26428,34521,123534,6978,2465,27199,14065,123533,113462,25599,35730,27702,13223,53098,41552,25333,26373,123531,13177,123538,123536,123532,27549,13126,35088,123530,123537,123535,122465,18222,25597],"class_list":["post-433575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-oceania","tag-alice-mills","tag-annabelle-williams","tag-brittany-elmslie","tag-bronte-barrett","tag-brooke-hanson","tag-chris-fydler","tag-chris-wright","tag-david-mckeon","tag-emma-mckeon","tag-fran-adcock","tag-georgia-bohl","tag-glen-housman","tag-graham-windeatt","tag-grant-irvine","tag-greg-fasala","tag-gregor-tait","tag-james-hickman","tag-james-roberts","tag-jessicah-schipper","tag-jodie-clatworthy","tag-koti-ngawati","tag-kylie-palmer","tag-leah-neale","tag-libby-trickett","tag-linda-mackenzie","tag-madi-wilson","tag-mark-stockwell","tag-melanie-schlanger","tag-nicole-livingstone","tag-nira-stove","tag-patrick-murphy","tag-rickie-binning","tag-ron-ckeon","tag-rosemary-brown","tag-sally-hunter","tag-sophie-edington","tag-stephanie-rice","tag-suki-brownsden","tag-susie-woodhouse","tag-suzie-baumer","tag-tim-ford","tag-tracey-caulkins","tag-travis-mahoney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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