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 ...

Australians first competed in figure skating at Oslo 1952. Adrian Swan competed in the men’s individual and placed 10th. Nancy Hallam and Gweneth Henke (Molony) both competed in the women's individual ...

Ian Thorpe won five Olympic gold medals, the greatest total of any Australian. Thorpe first grabbed world attention when he won the 1998 world 400m freestyle title in Perth, becoming, at 15, the ...

Kite foil racing, one of the most exciting, high-speed events on water, makes its debut on the sailing program at the Paris Olympics, and Townsville’s Breiana Whitehead will be one of the athletes to ...

After meeting coaches from Rowing Australia and University of Technology Haberfield, her eventual senior rowing club, Georgina participated in the 2017 World Indoor Rowing Championships, finishing ...

Luke Pavillard began playing water polo aged 12. After graduating high school in Perth, Luke began studying at the University of the Pacific in 2015, playing for the school's water polo team. In his ...

Elise Rechichi is a dual Olympian and Olympic gold medallist. In 2004, the West Australian partnered with Tessa Parkinson in the women’s 470 class. Two years later at the Olympic test event in China, ...

Jason Whateley from Sale in Victoria made his Olympic debut in the men’s heavyweight 91kg boxing division in Rio. Whateley faced a tough home-town favourite, Brazilian Juan Nogueira in his opening ...

Ellia Green grew up competing in athletics before she was recruited into the Australian Rugby Sevens program after attending a talent identification camp in Melbourne in 2012, a move that certainly ...

David Andersen is one of Australia’s most experienced Olympic basketballers having competed at the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games. Andersen started his basketball career at ...

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 ...

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 ...