{"id":53777,"date":"2024-06-27T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53777"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:22:47","slug":"australia-swim-queen-campbell-retires-after-missing-out-on-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53777","title":{"rendered":"Australia swim queen Campbell retires after missing out on Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian swimmer Cate Campbell has announced her retirement after failing to qualify for a fifth Olympics, ending a career in which she set seven world records and won a slew of medals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 32-year-old, regarded as one of the best relay swimmers the sport has known, missed out on a Paris berth in the 50m and 100m freestyle at the Australian trials this month.<\/p>\n

“I gave the pursuit of a fifth Olympics everything I had, and therefore, even in failure, there is a small, indelible kernel of pride,” she said in a statement late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a long and wild ride and I wouldn’t change it for the world.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to cheer on the Australian Dolphins and the rest of the Australian Olympic Team in Paris.”<\/p>\n

Campbell made her first Olympic team aged 15 in 2008, winning two bronze medals in Beijing.<\/p>\n

She went on to claim six more Olympic medals, four of them gold in relays.<\/p>\n

Campbell had a similarly impressive record at the world championships, winning 12 medals including four golds.<\/p>\n

Her world records mostly came in the 4x100m freestyle relay, an event in which she won at the last three Olympics in London, Rio and Tokyo.<\/p>\n

She also held the 100m world record in 2016 after smashing the previous best set by Germany’s Britta Steffen during the supersuit era.<\/p>\n

“Her service and contribution to swimming is just incredible — not just for what she achieved in the pool but also outside of it,” said Australian head coach Rohan Taylor.<\/p>\n

“She is a genuine leader, part of the Dolphins’ leadership group, was always team first, and swam with heart.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian swimmer Cate Campbell has announced her retirement after failing to qualify for a fifth Olympics, ending a career in which she set seven world records and won a slew of medals. The 32-year-old, regarded as one of the best relay swimmers the sport has known, missed out on a Paris berth in the 50m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1837],"class_list":["post-53777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3","tag-australia-swim-queen-campbell-retires-after-missing-out-on-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}