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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Hoy was born and brought up in Culcairn, NSW. He started riding when he was six-years-old and from then on he has spent the last 5 decades around horses. In 1978 he moved to England for a ...

Bobsleigh star Bree Walker slid into her second Olympic Winter Games in golden form. Going into Milano Cortina the 33-year-old from Cairns had won a remarkable three World Cups and finished a close ...

Just how much swimming means to Mitch Larkin, and how much Mitch means to the Australian team was highlighted when he returned home after the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and was told needed ...

After missing selection for the London 2012 Olympics, high school teacher David Powell adopted the lessons of persistence and resilience he was teaching his students and channeled it into his own life ...

Matthew Mitcham produced the performance of his life --- no less than the highest scoring dive in Olympic history --- to win the 10-metres platform event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In doing so ...

A decision to abandon a dream of playing AFL has Gold Coast sprint kayaker Jackson Collins following in his father’s footsteps to the Olympics. A former Gold Coast Suns academy player who was rookie ...

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 ...

Gael Martin won the bronze medal in the women’s shotput in 1984, recording a distance of 19.19 metres. While she placed third, Martin’s medal was a historic first for Australian athletics – no man or ...