Paul Barnett (swimmer)

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Paul Barnett

Personal information
Full name	Paul Barnett
Nationality	Australia
Born	8 July 1970 Perth, Western Australia
Medal record Swimming Paralympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB9 Bronze 2000 Sydney Men's 4x100 m Medley 34 pts

Paul Barnett, OAM^[1] (born 8 July 1980)^[2] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB9 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia,^[1] and a bronze medal in the Men's 4x100 m Medley 34 pts event.^[3]

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He was born 8 July 1980 in Perth, Western Australia.^[2] Barnett graduated from Mount Lawley Senior High, near Perth, Western Australia. He attended Mt Lawley for five years and developed his love of sport there, especially swimming and became the captain of the school's swimming team, beating able bodied swimmers consistently. He became first became Murdoch House captain and then school swimming team captain and finally represented WA as a state swimmer. He set himself the goal of gold at the 2000 Olympics in 1998.

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