Nadine Neumann

Nadine Neumann

Personal information
Full name	Nadine Bernadette Neumann
Nickname(s)	Wobbles
National team	Australia
Born	3 December 1975 Sydney, New South Wales
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Ryde-Carlile Swimming Club
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Australia Pan Pacific Championships 1997 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle 1997 Fukuoka 4×200 m freestyle Summer Universiade 1995 Fukuoka 200 m breaststroke 1995 Fukuoka 100 m breaststroke

Nadine Bernadette Neumann (born 3 December 1975) is an Australian former breaststroke swimmer.

She overcame chronic fatigue syndrome at the age of 15, and was denied an Olympic birth in Barcelona because of a broken neck. She competed for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she finished in sixth position, clocking 2:28.34 in the final of the 200-metre breaststroke.^[1] She captained the Australian Swimming Team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 1999 Pan Pacific Championships, competing in the 400-metre Individual Medley, 200-metre Butterfly and 800-metre Freestyle events as well as the breaststroke.

Teacher and Mentor

Upon retiring from competitive swimming, Neumann was a successful motivational speaker and worked in public relations and marketing, before beginning her teaching career at Cheltenham Girls High School as an English teacher. After her move to Newcastle, New South Wales, she taught English to students studying for their trade certificate and HSC concurrently at the Australian Technical College – Hunter and ran well-being programs in high schools. She now teaches Yr 11 and 12 at Linuwel School in East Maitland, where she enjoys offering students the opportunity to complete their senior studies in an environment that provides academic challenges without the stress of high-stakes testing, and the freedom to explore subjects in depth. Nadine's ongoing interest in the wellbeing of young people led her to qualifying as a Youth Worker and she graduated with a Grad Dip in Psych in 2018, which have helped her in her role as a student mentor.

Writer

Neumann's memoir, Wobbles – An Olympic Story, won the 2009 IP Picks Award for Best Creative Non-Fiction and was published the same year. She has published a number of other short pieces and news articles and is currently working on a series of picture books, a middle-grade fantasy novel, and an historical fiction novel based on the lives of her two grandmothers.

She lives with her husband and four young children in the Hunter Valley, NSW.

References

External links

• Australian Olympic Committee