Susie O'Neill

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Women's Swimming
Bronze 1992 200 metres butterfly
Gold 1996 200 metres butterfly
Silver 1996 4x100 metres
medley relay
Bronze 1996 4x200 metres freestyle relay
Gold 2000 200 metres freestyle
Silver 2000 200 metres butterfly
Silver 2000 4x100 metres
medley relay
Silver 2000 4x200 metres
freestyle relay

Susie O'Neill, famously nicknamed "Madame Butterfly" (born 2 August, 1973), is an Australian former competitive swimmer from Brisbane, Queensland who won the 200m Butterfly at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 200m Freestyle in Sydney. After winning a Gold and a Silver medal in her first attendance at an international competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, O'Neill never failed to win a medal at any international meet she attended, right up until her final Olympics in front of a home crowd in Australia.

Susie O'Neill is now happily married and a mother of two children, Alix and William.

She commentated at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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