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The Australian Olympic Committee today published the list of nominees who will stand for election to the organisation’s Executive at its upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM).
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 ...
In the leadup to the Rio 2016 Olympics, Morgan Mitchell ran the fastest 400m time by an Australian in 12 years, but in a brave decision, within two years she walked away from the event setting her ...
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 ...
In the 10 000 metres at Tokyo 1964, Ron Clarke won Australia’s third bronze medal in the event at successive Olympics. Allan Lawrence and David Power won the previous medals, at Melbourne 1956 and ...
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 ...
Three-time Olympian Brianna Throssell burst onto the swimming scene at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games, where she won seven bronze medals. Her impressive haul included individual bronze in the ...
Rachael Gunn 'Raygun' got people all over the world talking like few can. Her performances in the face-to-face solo breaking battles at the Paris Olympics, while not enough to claim a win among 16 of ...
Rebel Morrow made her Olympic debut at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games riding Oaklee Groover. Morrow contested the individual and team eventing finishing 11th and sixth respectively. The New South Wales ...
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 ...
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 ...
Angela Yu will carry on a family tradition when she competes for Australia in badminton at the Paris Olympics. Angela’s mother He Tian (Rosie) Tang won women’s doubles badminton bronze for Australia ...