Twenty-nine inspiring students from across the country have been selected as Australian Olympic Change-Makers, recognised for ...

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 ...

Melbourne native NIcholas Lavery began training at Rowing Australia’s Reinhold Batschi National Training Centre in Canberra in 2020, with Olympic ambitions the reasoning for his move to the nation’s ...

South Australian Wendy Schaeffer became the youngest woman to win an equestrian gold medal when she joined with Phillip Dutton, Andrew Hoy and Gillian Rolton to win the team three-day event in Atlanta ...

Born the child of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal parents, Patty Mills has utilised his on-court talents to grow his philanthropic work away from the hardwood, rising as a symbol of hope for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all Australia’s victories in the Olympic Games, undoubtedly the most bizarre was that of Steven Bradbury in the 1000m short-track speed skating final at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Games.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Peter Antonie, one of Australia’s greatest rowers, was dogged throughout his career by the tyranny of size. Even in his prime, after he had won gold, silver and bronze medals at world championships, ...