{"id":590216,"date":"2024-06-25T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=590216"},"modified":"2024-06-26T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:20:36","slug":"aussie-swimming-legend-cate-campbell-officially-calls-time-on-a-stellar-career-in-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/aussie-swimming-legend-cate-campbell-officially-calls-time-on-a-stellar-career-in-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Swimming legend Cate Campbell Officially Calls Time On a Stellar Career In The Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aussie Swimming legend Cate Campbell Officially Calls Time On a Stellar Career In The Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cate Campbell<\/strong>, four-time Olympian and the Australian Swim Team\u2019s flagbearer for over a decade, has today officially retired from the sport she began when taught to swim by her mother in a lake in Malawi in South East Africa.<\/p>\n

Now 23 years, 35,000km and 19 million strokes later Campbell has called time on her stellar career, posting that after four Olympics, eight Olympic medals, seven world records, 12 World Championship medals – four of them gold, nine Pan Pac Gold and six Commonwealth Games gold – 24 major gold medals in a total of 39, saying: \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s time to day goodbye to the dream I have had since I was nine years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

A dream that saw Cate Campbell become synonymous with the rise of Australia\u2019s stranglehold on female freestyle sprinting since she first burst onto the scene at the 2007 Youth Olympic Games at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n

Standing poolside with Australian Head Coach Leigh Nugent<\/strong>, who had led the Australian team to it\u2019s most successful off-shore Olympics in Athens in 2004, we agreed: \u201cAustralia\u2019s got a live one here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Campbell Shines In Final Day of Australian Youth Olympic Festival<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n