Cate Campbell against NRL, Olympic, tennis, diving, cricket volleyball stars for top award
Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell hits hot form in the pool and is up for a major award out of it.
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It’s not her usual opposition - a rugby league gun, the greatest paddler of all time and other Australian sporting stars - but Cate Campbell never backs down from a challenge.
The Olympic star is one of seven finalists for the NSW Sport Athlete of the Year award.
Campbell has been in scintillating form in recent months and earlier this week continued to enhance her reputation in the pool at the International Swimming League meet in Texas
The 27-year-old from Pymble combined with fellow Aussies Minna Atherton, Jess Hansen and Emma McKeon for a 4x100m medley win for the Roar team in 3min 47.91 seconds - shattering the 2010 Australian record of 3:48.88.
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In another stunner, Campbell set the 2019 world benchmark by winning the 100m freestyle in 51.37, easily eclipsing Swede champion Sarah Sjostrom’s 51.66 mark.
Campbell faces tough opposition out of the water to win the top gong at the NSW Sport Award.
The multiple Olympic swimmer is up against Mariafe Artcho del Solar (Beach Volleyball), tennis star Alex de Minaur, canoe kayaker Jessica Fox, high diver Rhiannon Iffland, cricket sensations Ellyse Perry and the NRL’s James Tedesco.
Artacho and partner Taliqua Clancy won Australia’s first world championship medal since 2003 with their defeat of a Swiss pair at the world title in Hamburg.
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Minaur won a series of tournaments which has seen him rise rapidly up the rankings, including the Zuhai championship and events in Sydney and Atlanta.
Fox has won multiple World Cup and world championship medals overseas in a year to remember while Iffland recently won another world title.
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Ellyse Perry helped lead Australia to the Ashes while NRL’s James Tedesco cleaned up in rugby league in 2019 with his honours including the Dally M Medal, State of Origin’s Wally Lewis Medal and another premiership.