Cate Campbell breaks 100m world record ... sister Bronte breaks eggs to cook her celebratory breakfast

CATE Campbell has enjoyed the last reward she will have handed to her on a plate before Rio — scrambled eggs and a coffee prepared by her sister Bronte.

The moment Cate Campbell realised she’d brought the 100m world record back home to Australia.

CATE Campbell has enjoyed the last reward she will have handed to her on a platter before the Olympics — scrambled eggs, no toast and a coffee lovingly prepared by her sister Bronte.

For the next month she will have to fight for every scrap.

Bronte missed the 100m final on Saturday night due to illness and was tucked up in bed when Cate returned home late, tired but elated after her stunning freestyle world record swim.

“Bronte had gone to bed, but she made me breakfast this morning which was the best way possible to say congratulations, with food,’’ she said.

The 24-year-old admitted she wasn’t even tempted to jump on Bronte to wake her, as most sisters would do.

“You never, never do that, wouldn’t go kick a sleeping Lion so you wouldn’t wake a sleeping swimmer,’’ she said.

However, that is precisely what her blistering time of 52.06 seconds at the Brisbane Grand Prix on Saturday night has done.

It eclipsed German Britta Steffen’s mark by 0.01 of a second set at the 2009 world titles in the now banned supersuit.

In doing so she became the first Australian to set an individual world record since the controversial 2008-09 supersuit period.

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It is part of the Campbell family folklore that Bronte assembled a hit list of all the swimmers who had beaten her. In Russia at last year’s World Championships she finally wiped the final name, that of her sister, from it when she claimed the 50m -100m double.

“I’m sure I’m well and truly back on it now, she will be doing everything you can to wipe me off it tomorrow morning when we get back into training,’’ she said.

The 24-year-old has started to work on her pre-race ritual with the Australian swim team’s sports psychologist, Georgia Ridler.

Although she looks like a flatliner, Campbell revealed she can be almost overcome with nerves on race day and new breathing techniques to lower her heartbeat are helping.

However, her lifelong ritual of sitting next to Bronte listening to music from a shared iPod with one earpiece each would not change.

“No definitely not, that is still a very big part of what will happen in the marshalling room,’’ she said.

“We will pick a song in the heats of the 100m freestyle and keep that song going right through the Games.’’

Her swim left Dawn Fraser awe-struck and she joked she feared the Aussie icon would re-injure her recently reconstructed shoulder with her celebrations.

Campbell said, unlike the Olympics, there was no pressure at the meet in front of a supportive home crowd and her achievement should be put into perspective.

Her greatest satisfaction, she revealed, was that the 100m freestyle world record is back where it belongs, in Australia.

“It is such an integral part of our swimming history, it feels special to be a part of that,” she said.

Originally published as Cate Campbell breaks 100m world record ... sister Bronte breaks eggs to cook her celebratory breakfast