Brenden Hall

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Brenden Hall
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Hall
Personal information
Full name Brenden Hall
Nickname(s) Junior
Nationality  Australia
Born (1993-05-27) 27 May 1993 (age 30)
Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Classifications S9, SB8, SM9
Club Lawnton
Coach Harley Connolly

Brenden Hall OAM is an Australian Paralympic amputee swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]

Personal

Brendan Hall was born on 27 May 1993 in the Queensland town of Nambour.[2] At the age of six, he had his right leg amputated after complications from chicken pox.[2] The disease also resulted in the loss of 70% of his hearing.[2] He lives in the suburb of Petrie and is studying exercise science at the University of Queensland.[3] He is an ambassador for the Aspiration for Kids programme.[2] and Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association’s Game Changers.[4]

Career

He made his international swimming debut at the 2007 Arafura Games.[5] He was the youngest male on the Australian swimming team at the 2008 Beijing Games.[5] He competed in the Men's 400 m Freestyle S9 and came 5th in the final. He broke the Paralympic record in his heat.[5] At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven he won gold medals in the Men's 400m Freestyle S9, Men's 5 km Open Water S1-S10, Men's 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points (Heat) Men's 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 points (Heat).[2][6] In 2011, at the Queensland Swimming Championships he broke world records in the 800 m and 1500 m Freestyle events.[5]

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Hall at the 2012 London Paralympics

At the 2012 London Games, he won two gold medals in the Men's 400 m Freestyle S9 and Men's 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points and a bronze medal in the Men's 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 points.[7][8] He also participated in the S9 class of the Men's 100 m Backstroke, 100 m Butterfly S9, 100 m Freestyle and 50 m Freestyle events – as well as the 200 m Individual Medley SM9.[8]

As of February 2013, he holds S9 world records in the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events.[9] Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada, he won two gold medals in the Men's 400m Freestyle S9 and Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay (34 points).[10] He broke the world record in winning the Men's 400m Freestyle S9.[11]

At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, he won the gold medals in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S9 and Men's 400 m Freestyle S9 and bronze medals in the Men's 100 m Freestyle S9 and Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points.[12][13][14][15] He finished fifth in the Men's 50m Freestyle S9, fifth in the Men's 100m Butterfly S9 and sixth in the Men's 200m Individual Medley SM9.[16]

In 2016, he is an Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder.[17]

Recognition

He was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[18] In 2015, he won the Queensland Athlete with a Disability Award, the third time he had won this award.[19]

See also

References

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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Results for Brenden Hall from the International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  9. ↑ IPC Swimming World Records - Long Course
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