Sally Hunter (born 13 April 1985), née Sally Foster, is an Australian

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can b ...

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

. She won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke event at the

2008 FINA Short Course World Championships The 9th FINA Swimming World Championships (25 m) were held at the Manchester Arena, in Manchester, United Kingdom 9–13 April 2008. The United States topped the medal table with 10 gold medals, though host team Great Britain took home the mos ...

. Hunter is 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. She competed in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, reaching the final in 2012. She won the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

, and was a member of Australia's gold-medal-winning 4×100-metre medley relay team.

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* * * * * * 1985 births Living people Australian female breaststroke swimmers Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian Institute of Sport swimmers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Olympic swimmers for Australia Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Swimmers from Perth, Western Australia Sportswomen from Western Australia {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub