Andrew Pasterfield
 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Pasterfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Andrew Bruce Pasterfield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Pasty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 November 1989 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Castle Hill RSL Cranbrook Eastern Edge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Greg Morrison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andrew Bruce Pasterfield, OAM (born 23 November 1989) is a Paralympic swimmer from Australia.
Swimming
[edit]Andrew Bruce Pasterfield competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won a gold medal in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay event.[1][2]
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At the 2012 Summer Paralympics Pasterfield won a gold in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points, and three bronzes in the Men's 50 m Freestyle S10, 100 m Freestyle S10 and Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 points.[3][4] He also participated in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S10 and Men's 100 m Butterfly S10 events.[4]
He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[2]
In 2016, he was awarded Speedo Services to the Australian Swim Team at the Swimming Australia Awards.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wake 2010, p. 4
- ^ a b "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". The Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Pasterfield". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ a b "Andrew Pasterfield". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ "Swimming Australia Gala Dinner 2016". swimming.org.au. Swimming Australia. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
Bibliography
[edit]- Wake, Rebekka (September 2010). "Golden Glow Over Australian Swimming". Australian Paralympian. 2. Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee.
External links
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- Andrew Pasterfield at Paralympics Australia (archived)
- Andrew Pasterfield at the International Paralympic Committee
- Male Paralympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Living people
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- 1989 births
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- S10-classified para swimmers
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Australian male freestyle swimmers
- Australian male backstroke swimmers
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers from Brisbane
- Sportsmen from Queensland