Prolific world record breaker, Kerry Saxby, competed in the women’s walks at Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. Women’s walking was not introduced to the Olympic program until Barcelona and ...

Bradley Hore is a dual Olympian in boxing, having gone to the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. Hore went into the 2004 Games as the 2004 Australian and Oceania champion in the flyweight division but went ...

At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Sam Simpson was Australia’s sole male artistic gymnast. Simpson began gymnastics at the age of three, competing at his first state championships at just eight years ...

After her first football training session, a hyperactive eight-year-old Kyah Simon from Quakers Hill in New South Wales told her mum she would represent her country on the Olympic stage some day. She ...

Jessica Rich made her Olympic debut in the new Olympic discipline of women's snowboard Big Air at PyeongChang 2018. The Sydney-sider, who originally intended to compete in both slopestyle and Big Air, ...

CommBank backs communities and businesses with landmark deal to provide long-term support as the build up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games continues. The Australian Olympic Committee ...

When people think of Sydney 2000, they remember the highlights: Cathy Freeman winning gold and proudly carrying the Australian and Aboriginal flags, the Aussie men’s 4x100 relay swim team finally ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Ajla Tomljanovic represents Australia after first announcing her switch in nationality to Australia in 2014. Ajla started playing tennis at six-years-old in Metalac, Croatia, ...

Australia first qualified for ice hockey in the Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley in 1960. The team scored ten goals and finished ninth, conceding 87 goals in six games. The valiant 19-man ...