Born in the US state of Arizona, Scottsdale, Matisse Thybulle relocated to Sydney as an infant and lived in Australia for about seven years before moving back to the USA in the suburbs of Seattle.

Having grown up between Mount Beauty and Falls Creek in country Victoria, Britt Cox was surrounded by a ski-mad family which gave her the perfect start in the sport. Once she gained the desire to be ...

Trent Mitton started hockey at just 5-years-old, he grew up playing at the Wesley South Perth hockey club and played for WA in state sides. Trent is a third-generation Kookaburra, with his grandfather ...

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 ...

With a Norwegian father and Australian mother, Lars Young Vik grew up on the trails around Oslo’s Holmenkollen ski area, and has long split his life between Norway and Perth, in Western Australia, ...

Susan O’Neill ended her lustrous swimming career with eight Olympic medals - an Australian women’s record, shared with Dawn Fraser and Petria Thomas. (Ian Thorpe, with nine, is the only Australian ...

Peter Macken competed in the modern pentathlon at Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976, thus becoming the second Australian, after canoeist Dennis Green, to compete ...

Matthew (Matt) Shirvington is a Sydney 2000 Olympian and still, two decades later, the second-fastest Australian sprinter of all time. His prowess in sprinting was evident early on, when, at the age ...

Born in country Victoria, Lucy Stephan began rowing in high school before graduating in 2009. Less than two years later, Lucy made state selection for Victoria, rowing in the women's youth eight, ...

David Theile is the only Australian ever to have won an Olympic backstroke swimming gold medal, and he did it twice. That successful defence of the 100m backstroke title makes him one of nine ...

Craig Stevens will forever be remembered as the chap who surrendered his right to swim in the 400 metres at Athens, to enable Ian Thorpe to successfully defend the Olympic title that he had won at ...

Brin Liddell and his Nacra 17 crewmate Rhiannan Brown have an easy familiarity with each other that comes with sailing together for several year and being friends since they were eight. "We stay as ...