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Anne Nicole Brunell, OAM (née Currie ; born 13 July 1970) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She was born without legs and only three fingers on her right hand. She started competitive swimming at the age of 11 and swam for the Nunawading and North Dandenong swimming clubs. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle A1 event. At just under 14 years of age, this made her the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist at that time, surpassing Elizabeth Edmondson, who won gold at 14 years and 4 months at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics. In 2012, Maddison Elliott passed them both and became the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist and gold medallist at the 2012 London Games. At the 1998 Seoul Paralympics, Currie, won silver in the Women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay. Currie won three gold medals in the Women's 50 m and 100 m Freestyle S6 and Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S7 events and a silver medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S1 at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled, Assen, Netherlands.

At the 1992 Barcelona Games, she won three gold medals in the Women's 4x50 m Freestyle S1–6, Women's 200 m Freestyle S6, and Women's 100 m Freestyle S6 events, for which she won a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S6 event. In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal. In 2007, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.

Practicing citations
Published on Trove, this 116-minute oral history interview sees Brunell provide a first-hand account of her life from her early years up to the present day.

This peer reviewed journal article discusses the joint Oral History Project of the National Library of Australia and the Australian Paralympic Committee, which sought to give voice and power to numerous Australian Paralympic athletes - of which Brunell is one - who have played a pioneering role in shaping how we positively view disability within sport today.

Whilst not peer reviewed, this article was published around the time in which Brunell would have been fitted with her Canadian hip disarticulation prosthesis and thus, does not only provide revolutionary, juvenile-specific research but provides historically accurate information as to how Brunell’s prothesis would have fitted.

Published on Trove, this newspaper article was published after Brunell ‘…shattered the world record in the 200m freestyle…’ at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games.

This webpage produced by Paralympics Australia describes the change in groupings accepted at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games, where events were based upon the level of function rather than an explicit type of disability.

Category:Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia Category:Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Category:Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Category:Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Category:Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Category:Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Category:Paralympic medalists in swimming

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