Mandy Drennan

{{short description|Australian Paralympic swimmer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson| | name = Mandy Drennan | image = | imagesize = | caption = | fullname = | nicknames = | nationality = {{AUS}} | club = | collegeteam = | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|22 May 1988}} | birth_place = Cowes, Victoria, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport |Swimming}} {{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}} {{MedalBronze | 2004 Athens | Women's 4x100 m Freestyle 34 pts}} {{MedalCompetition|IPC Swimming World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2002 Mar Del Plata|Women's 4x100m Medley Relay }} {{MedalSilver|2002 Mar Del Plata|Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay}} }}

'''Amanda Drennan''' (born 22 May 1988)<ref name=2004-media-guide>{{cite book|title=Media guide : 2004 Athens Paralympic Games|publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee|author=Australian Paralympic Committee|location=Sydney, Australia|year=2008}} Information on past Australian Paralympic Games results and profiles on Australian athletes and staff attending the Athens Paralympic Games.</ref> is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. Drennan, who is from Cowes, Victoria, was born without her right leg.<ref name=ipc/> She learned to swim as a child on Victoria's Phillip Island but trained in Melbourne several times a week due to the island's lack of facilities.<ref name=ipc/> At the age of ten, she competed in her first state championships and a year later represented Australia at the Pacific School Games.<ref name="My Story">{{cite web|title=My Story|url=http://swimforlifephllipisland.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/my-story.html|work=Swim For Life Website|accessdate=12 March 2012}}</ref> In 2000, she was offered a wildcard entry at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games but her family and coach decided it was not in her long-term development to accept it.<ref name="My Story"/>

She competed in the 2002 IPC Swimming Championships in Mar Del Plata, Argentina winning a gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay and silver medal in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.<ref name=ipc>{{cite web|title=Mandy Dreenan Profile|work=International Paralympic Committee Swimming Website}}</ref> She held an Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimming scholarship from 2003 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=AIS at the Roll of Honour for the Paralympics |url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/paralympics |work=Australian Sports Commission Website |accessdate=12 March 2012 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223114749/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/paralympics |archivedate=23 February 2012 }}</ref> She won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts event.<ref name="2004-media-guide"/><ref name=IPC-AUS>{{cite web|title=Athlete Search Results|url=http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=AUS&gender=all&medal=medals&sport=all&games=2004PG|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=4 October 2011}}</ref> She competed at the 2008 Beijing Games and did not win a medal.<ref name=IPC-AUS/>

In 2005, she won the Bass Coast Sportsperson of the Year award.<ref name=ipc/> In 2011, she swam 66 km around Phillip Island in a shark cage to raise funds to re-establish Warley Hospital on the Island. Her mother was a nurse at the centre when it closed in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|title=Paralympian Amanda Drennan attempts epic swim around Phillip Island|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/paralympian-amanda-drennan-attempts-epic-swim-around-phillip-island/story-e6frf7kx-1226022199650|accessdate=12 March 2012|newspaper=Herald Sun|date=16 March 2011}}</ref>{{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}} She works as pharmacist in Melbourne.

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