Craig Mottram is a four-time Olympian, having competed in the 5000m distance at the Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games. His best Olympic result was in Athens when he finished ...

Kyra Wheatley represented Australia in Ski Cross at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, placing 25th at her Olympic debut. She was the 23rd fastest skier in the qualifying round, before ...

Dual Olympic gold medallist Keegan Palmer moved from the USA to Australia’s Gold Coast at an early age and quickly fell in love with skateboarding. Keegan took to the sport naturally and was soon ...

Leilani grew up as the only girl in a family of six on the west coast of the United States, in the Washington state city of Richland, not far from the Oregon border. Basketball ruled her early ...

Raised on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Peter Montgomery started playing water polo in high school before continuing alongside his studies at the University of Sydney. Montgomery attended his first ...

When Kieren Perkins won the 1500 metres freestyle gold medal at the Atlanta Games in 1996, he became the only Australian since Dawn Fraser to defend an individual Olympic championship successfully. He ...

Forsyth won Australia’s first high jump medal since 1956 when he finished third in the men’s event in 1992. Aged 18, Forsyth was a surprise medallist in what turned out to be a remarkable competition.

At the age of 27, Belinda Barnes (Wright) made her Olympic debut as part of the Australian softball team at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Barnes first began playing softball when she was just seven ...

Four months before the start of the Paris Olympics, equestrian Shane Rose was lying in a hospital bed with 19 different bone fractures, his Games dream in tatters. Just days before, Shane, a ...

West Australian Malcolm ‘Mal’ Poole was a member of the Australian men’s hockey team that won a silver medal in 1976. Australia was the favourites entering the final against New Zealand, but a ...

The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we are located. We pay ...

Triple jumper Connor Murphy’s journey to becoming an Olympian seemed a given a few years ago, but progress seemed to stall until Connor and his dad/coach Andrew Murphy, a three-time Olympian, made ...