Australian swimming legend Bronte Campbell is set to marry her long-time boyfriend Benfield Lainchbury. The champion swimmer took to social media to share the engagement news on Friday, posting a video and series of photos from Venice. Campbell and Lainchbury have clearly been enjoying their post- Olympics European vacation, and Campbell was in a playful mood in her first relationship reveal.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “Never know what to with my hands in photos,” she wrote on a video, while cheekily flashing her new diamond ring. “Venice: special for so many reasons,” she wrote with her famous swimming peers quick to catch on. “Congratulations guys 😍😍 I love this video,” wrote Aussie great Emma McKeon.
Campbell and Lainchbury are childhood friends and started dating in 2016. And he is credited with helping Campbell get back into the pool and push for a fourth Olympics and, as it turned out, a third gold medal. Campbell had been struggling with several injuries (shoulder, neck, back and hip) after the Tokyo Games in 2021 and it seemed like her time in the pool was over.
But after an 18-month time-out, she returned ...
and the rest, as they say, is history (she was handed a gold medal for her part in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, although she did not swim in the final). In her relationship update on Friday, Campbell also dropped a series of photos from the canals of the famous Italian city. “What a week celebrating all that’s.