Rick Pendleton
 Pendleton in 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rick Pendleton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 January 1985 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rick Pendleton, OAM[1] (born 12 January 1985) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer from Sydney. He was born without his left hand. He turned to swimming after his rugby league career was ended by a knee ligament injury. He attended high school at Marcellin College Randwick.[2]
He has won five Paralympic gold medals. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the 4×100 m medley 34pts event, and two gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Games, at the 4×100 m medley 34pts and 200 m individual medley SM10 events.[3] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m medley relay 34pts and a bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley SM10.[3]
In 2009, he received a Medal of the Order of Australia for his 2008 gold medals.[1] He was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder.[4]
At the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships in Durban, South Africa he won a silver medal in the 200m individual medley and bronze in the 100m breaststroke.
In 2011, at the age of 26, he competed in the Can-Am Swimming Open, where he earned a gold medal in the S10 200m butterfly event, a silver medal in the men’s SM10 200 m individual medley, and a bronze in the 100m freestyle event.[5]
He works as a swimming coach at Matthew Flinders Anglican College's Flinders Swim Club.[6]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)". ABC News. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ↑ Govorcin, Damir (9 November 2008). "Marcellin honours old boy for Paralympic golds". The Catholic Weekly. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ↑ "AIS at the Paralympics". Australian Sports Commission Website. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ↑ "Sport News". Paralympic.org. 2011-12-12. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ↑ "Flinders Swim Club". Matthew Flinders Anglican College. Retrieved 8 December 2013.