Angie Lee Bainbridge,

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(born 16 October 1989) is an Australian

freestyle swimmer Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to a few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. Freestyle races are the most common ...

who specialises in the 200-metre event. At the

2008 Australian Swimming Championships The 2008 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships were held at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 22–29 March 2008. The championships were used as the Australian trials for the 2008 Olympic Game ...

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 The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Go ...

"For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games". She was part of the Australian freestyle team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, again swimming in the heats. She was an

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of th ...

scholarship holder.AIS at the Olympics

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Sportswomen from New South Wales Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Living people Australian female freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Australian Institute of Sport swimmers 1989 births Olympic silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in swimming Olympic silver medalists in swimming 21st-century Australian women {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub

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