Cate and Bronte Campbell became the first Australian sisters to compete in the same swimming event at the Olympic Games when they both raced in the 50 metres freestyle in London in 2012.
In 2013 they celebrated together after making up half the 4×100 metres freestyle relay team that won silver at the World Championships in Barcelona.
Later this month they will arrive in Glasgow for their first Commonwealth Games as favourites to claim a haul of medals.
Here we look at the sisters’ journey that started in Malawi and continued in Australia, the highs and lows, the sibling rivalry and love and their inspirational mother.
Malawi
The story starts in Malawi, south-east Africa where Cate was born in May 1992 shortly after parents Jenny and Eric had relocated from South Africa.
Bronte arrived a little under two years later, their birthdays just six days apart.
They lived the outdoor life to the full with a menagerie of 30 chickens, two turkeys and countless guinea pigs and rabbits. They adopted hedgehogs and even attempted to bring dead pigeons back to life.
Their mother, who had been a national level synchronised swimmer in South Africa, home-schooled Cate and Bronte and two further siblings arrived, Jessica, now 18, and a disabled brother Hamish, 15.
She…
