Shortly after Mia learned how to walk, she was put on a pair of skis. Her first ski trip was when she was just 3 years old and she fell in love with the feeling of freedom that the sport gave her. Now ...

Stuart O’Grady competed at every Olympic Games over a remarkable 20-year period from 1992 to 2012. He joins an elite club of six-time Australian Olympians and has an impressive four medals on his ...

Queenslander Tia-Clair Toomey has earned herself a cult following of both Weightlifting and Crossfit fans across the world and it's easy to see why. Among her many achievements, Australia's number one ...

Kerri Pottharst and Natalie Cook won the bronze medal, behind two Brazilian combinations, at the inaugural appearance of beach volleyball at Atlanta 1996. In Atlanta, both the Brazilian teams had won ...

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 ...

Glynis Nunn is the only Australian to have won an Olympic multi-discipline athletics event. In the boycott-affected 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, at which the five-event pentathlon was replaced ...

Competing at his first Olympic Games in London, Poort posted a time of 15:20.82 to finish seventh in his heat and miss the final of the 1500m freestyle. In Rio, the Wollongong based swimmer made the ...

Kate Smyth competed at Beijing 2008 in the women’s marathon, finishing 44th in a time of 2:36:10. Smyth only started serious marathon running at the age of 30. She finished seventh at the 2006 Chicago ...

As Kai Taylor prepared for the final of the 200m freestyle at the 2023 Australian swimming trials, his mum gave him a few words of advice: “Great things happen from lane eight.” She would know. Kai’s ...

Robert de Castella, known as 'Deek' is a four-time Olympian, competing in the men's marathon at the Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. His best result came in ...

Breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook is the quiet man of Australian swimming and perhaps one of the most underrated members of the Dolphins. The Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in 2020 and 2022, ...

Rachael Gunn 'Raygun' got people all over the world talking like few can. Her performances in the face-to-face solo breaking battles at the Paris Olympics, while not enough to claim a win among 16 of ...