Linda Mackenzie
Olympic athlete
1983 –
Who is Linda Mackenzie?
Linda June Mackenzie OAM is an Australian freestyle swimmer. She tends to prefer the longer 200m/400m/800m events and has won the Australian 400m national title five years in a row. She was part of the Australian team that won the gold medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and has picked up silver medals in the same event at the 2003 and 2005 world championships.
Mackenzie qualified for the 200m and 400m freestyle events at the Olympic Games in Beijing and was a member of the winning 4x200m freestyle relay. She was the last swimmer in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Together with Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt and Kylie Palmer the world record was broken by 5.78 seconds.
She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1983
Mackay - Nationality
- Australia
- Lived in
- Queensland
- Mackay
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on July 23, 2013
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