| Mandy Drennan | |
| Birth Place: | Cowes, Victoria, Australia |
Amanda 'Mandy' Drennan (born 22 May 1988 in Cowes, Victoria)[1] is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She was born without her right leg. 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. At the age of ten, she competed in her first state championships and a year later represented Australia at the Pacific School Games.[2] 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.[2]
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.[3] She held an Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimming scholarship from 2003 to 2004.[4] She won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts event.[1] [5] She competed at the 2008 Beijing Games and did not win a medal.[5]
In 2005, she won the Bass Coast Sportsperson of the Year award.[3] 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.[6] She works as pharmacist in Melbourne.