Chantel Wolfenden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian Paralympic swimmer
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Place of Birth: Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia
About Chantel Wolfenden
- Chantel Louise Wolfenden, OAM(born 15 January 1986) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.
- Born in the New South Wales town of Lithgow, she started to swim at the age of five as therapy for cerebral palsy.
- She underwent three operations to cut and lengthen her achilles tendon.She competed at the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar Del Plata, Argentina winning a gold medal in the women's 400m Freestyle S7 and two silver medals in the women's 100m Backstroke and women's 100m Freestyle S7 events. At the 2004 Athens Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, a silver medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S7 event, and four bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S7, Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM7, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts and Women's 4 × 100 m Medley 34 pts events.She swam for the Fairmead Swim Club in Bundaberg, Queensland and was coached by Paul Simms.
- Between 2002 and 2006, she was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder.
- She was also a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder.
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