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. 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. Upon retiring from competitive swimming, Neumann was a motivational speaker and worked in public relations and marketing, before becoming a high school teacher. 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 1975 births Living people Australian people of German descent People with chronic fatigue syndrome Sportswomen from New South Wales Australian female breaststroke swimmers Australian female butterfly swimmers Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers of Australia Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Sydney Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade silver medalists for Australia Universiade bronze medalists for Australia Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade 20th-century Australian women