Shane O’Neill started skateboarding when he was 10 years old and by the time he was 13 he had his first professional skateboard sponsors. He's known for his impressive technical ability, a ...

Mogul skier Charlotte Wilson has stunned the FIS World Cup circuit, claiming her first career victory in the dual moguls event on the site of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno, Italy, next ...

Erika Yamasaki's weightlifting career started rather innocuously as a teenager, where she was identified through a school based talent program as an athlete with encouraging potential. Yamasaki’s ...

Shelley Watts made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Games, after finishing 2 nd at the Asia/Oceania Qualifiers earlier in the same year. Watts was Australia’s only female boxer at the Rio Games.

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 ...

Angela Yu will carry on a family tradition when she competes for Australia in badminton at the Paris Olympics. Angela’s mother He Tian (Rosie) Tang won women’s doubles badminton bronze for Australia ...

When Steve Hooker became Australia’s first Olympic pole-vault champion ever at the 2008 Games in Beijing, he made some other dents in history: his was the first track-and-field victory for Australia ...

Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson have created Australian Olympic history, winning silver and bronze in the Women’s High Jump, making it the first time Australia has had two medallists in the ...

Jackie Narracott’s career in sport began in Athletics. From a young age she excelled in the 100m, 200m, long jump and triple jump. Inspired by her uncle Paul Narracott, the first Australian to compete ...

Olivia Wunsch’s name had been whispered in Olympic circles for months and then the world junior champion clocked three PBS in three events at the Australian selection trials in Brisbane in June 2024 – ...

Safwan Khalil received his first taste of martial arts action as a child in suburban Sydney, where after replicating the action-packed fight sequences of Hollywood kung-fu films, Khalil’s mother sent ...

Freddie Lane became the first of Australia’s great procession of Olympic swimming champions when he won the 200 metres freestyle in the muddy waters and moody currents of the Seine during the Paris ...