When Australia’s swimmers topped the medal tally at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, teenage sensation Mollie O’Callaghan was the star of the show. Over eight days of intense ...

Setyana Mapasa started playing badminton when she was eight years old and living in Indonesia. Her parents influenced her decision to start playing because they played socially and badminton was a big ...

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 ...

Zimbabwean-born Dominique du Toit moved to Australia with her family at a young age and settled in Queensland. In 2015, she was ushered into the rugby sevens program after a series of stunning ...

The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises secondary students from around the country who demonstrate the Olympic spirit – friendship, sportsmanship and striving for excellence - both on ...

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 ...

Tom O’Halloran began his rock-climbing journey in 2004 at the age of 12, after his parents enrolled him into the local climbing gym. Tom quickly fell in love with the sport and the many challenges it ...

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.

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 ...

Mitch Iles first started shooting when he was 12 after following his grandfather, Australian shooting legend Billy Iles, into the sport. He went on to compete at his first Australian Championships in ...

As a nine-year-old, Harry Garside decided he wanted to take up Boxing, which came as a shock to everyone. As the youngest of three boys and closest to his mum, he was considered the ‘whimp’ of the ...