Throughout his junior years, Elijah Winnington trained at Bond University swimming club under coach Richard Scarce. The Gold Coast native earned 26 National Age Championship gold medals by age 18, and ...
Donella Burridge represented Australia when Synchronised Swimming (now Artistic Swimming) debuted at the Los Angeles Games in 1984 and placed 12th in the solo event. At the Sydney 2000 Games, ...
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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 ...
Emma McKeon is, quite simply, the most successful Australian Olympian of all time. Before the Wollongong native's 28th birthday she'd won more Olympic medals than any Australian Olympian in history, a ...
After seeing how much fun her sister had doing Gymnastics, Emily Whitehead decided to start the sport at the age of four. Her first club was Waverley Gymnastics Club. She soon started to prove herself ...
The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises secondary students from around the country who demonstrate the Olympic spirit – friendship, sportsmanship and striving for excellence - both on ...
Basketballer Michael Ah Matt and boxers Adrian Blair and Francis Roberts became the first Indigenous Australians to call themselves Olympians when they competed at the Tokyo 1964 Games. In 1992 at ...
Sydney academic Rachael Gunn is leading something of a double life. By day she is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Literature and Language at Macquarie University.
The AOC has condemned an anonymous online petition attacking Australian Olympic Team member, breaking competitor Rachael Gunn as vexatious, misleading and bullying. The Australian Olympic Committee ...
Dinko “Dean” Lukin, a tuna fisherman from Port Lincoln, South Australia, became the only weightlifting gold medallist in Australian Olympic history when he won the super-heavyweight division at the ...
Cameron Smith was introduced to golf at a very young age, his father was club champion and a scratch-maker at Wantima Golf Club in Brisbane. His career as an amateur started to kick off in 2009, after ...