Daisy Thomas is a sensational young freeski big air and slopestyle competitor who was selected for the Milano Cortina Games, aged just 18. However, an injury during official training ahead of ...

Gail Miller won a gold medal for Australia in women’s water polo at Sydney 2000. From Queensland, the right-handed driver excelled in defence during the tournament, being tied for second on the team ...

Born in South Sudan, Duop Reath moved to Brisbane at age 9 with his family before eventually settling in the suburbs of Perth. After a late start in basketball, Duop’s height and athleticism quickly ...

Paddler Noemie Fox, a member of Australia’s most famous paddling family, made her Olympic debut as a 27-year-old at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the new Olympic discipline of kayak cross. Competing ...

Matthew (Matt) Shirvington is a Sydney 2000 Olympian and still, two decades later, the second-fastest Australian sprinter of all time. His prowess in sprinting was evident early on, when, at the age ...

Desi Johnson made her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina alongside Sarah Blizzard in the two-woman bobsleigh. Sitting 22nd after the first run, and with the emotion of their Olympic debut settled, the ...

The team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda MacKenzie won Australia’s first gold medal in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. Australia had qualified for the final with the sixth ...

In 2015, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) amended its Constitution with the endorsement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Olympians, the Prime Minister of Australia, Leader of the ...

Cadel Evans is a four-time Olympian, former World Road Cycling Champion (2009) and memorably won the 2011 Tour de France. Evans started his career as a cross country cyclist, finishing ninth in the ...

Nathan Deakes is a triple Olympian and made his Olympic debut at the Sydney 2000 Games. He had two creditable finishes in the walking events, eighth in the 20km walk and sixth in the 50km event. Two ...

Patrick Johnson is a dual Olympian who grew up in Far North Queensland, raised on a fishing trawler. He began his athletics career in 1996 at the Australian University Games in Canberra. Wearing ...

After narrowly missing the Tokyo team, Australian 800m recordholder Joseph Deng makes his Olympic debut in Paris. Joseph Deng was born in a refugee camp in Kenya after his mother left South Sudan to ...