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, ...

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.

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 ...

Edwin Flack was a trailblazer - the first Australian to compete at the Olympic Games, and first to win. When he left Melbourne in 1895 to study accountancy in London, he was the Australian mile ...

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, ...

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 ...

Madeleine ‘Maddie’ Edmunds joined Jennifer Cleary, Kerry Hore and Jessica Hall in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls at Rio, in what was her Olympic debut. The boat made a disappointing exit from the 2016 ...