Angie Lee Bainbridge, OAM (born 16 October 1989) is an Australian freestyle swimmer who specialises in the 200-metre event. At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships she qualified for the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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

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"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 The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, again swimming in the heats. She was an

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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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