Background
Brendan Hall was born on 27 May 1993 in the Queensland town of Nambour.
Brendan Hall was born on 27 May 1993 in the Queensland town of Nambour.
At the age of six, he had his right leg amputated after complications from chicken pox. The disease also resulted in the loss of 70% of his hearing. He lives in the suburb of Petrie and is studying exercise science at the University of Queensland.
He is an ambassador for the Aspiration for Kids programme.
He made his international swimming debut at the 2007 Arafura Games. He was the youngest male on the Australian swimming team at the 2008 Beijing Games.
He competed in the Men"s 400 m Freestyle S9 and came 5th in the final. He broke the Paralympic record in his heat.
In 2011, at the Queensland Swimming Championships he broke world records in the 800 m and 1500 m Freestyle events.
He also participated in the S9 class of the Men"s 100 m Backstroke, 100 m Butterfly S9, 100 m Freestyle and 50 m Freestyle events – as well as the 200 m Individual Medley SM9. As of February 2013, he holds S9 world records in the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events. He broke the world record in winning the Men"s 400m Freestyle S9.
He finished fifth in the Men"s 50m Freestyle S9, fifth in the Men"s 100m Butterfly S9 and sixth in the Men"s 200m Individual Medley SM9.
At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven he won gold medals in the Men"s 400m Freestyle S9, Men"s 5 km Open Water S1-S10, Men"s 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points (Heat) Men"s 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 points (Heat). At the 2012 London Games, he won two gold medals in the Men"s 400 m Freestyle S9 and Men"s 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points and a bronze medal in the Men"s 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 points. Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada, he won two gold medals in the Men"s 400m Freestyle S9 and Men"s 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay (34 points). At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, he won the gold medals in the Men"s 100 m Backstroke S9 and Men"s 400 m Freestyle S9 and bronze medals in the Men"s 100 m Freestyle S9 and Men"s 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points. He was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games." In 2015, he won the Queensland Athlete with a Disability Award, the third time he had won this award.
Hall was a member of the Grace Swimming Club in Brisbane, Queensland and coached by Chris Phillips since he was 10 Years of age.
