Like the Olympic champion Jon Sieben four years before him, Duncan Armstrong was ranked as an underdog at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, competing against opponents with massive reputations. There were ...

Taking up the sport of water polo when she was 12, Jane Moran made her debut for the national team in the U/17's before going on to make the U/20's in 2004 and 2005. Having just missed the Australian ...

Sydney diver Kurtis Mathews might have been a swimmer if it wasn’t for a coach who noticed something unusual about him as a youngster. Ten-year-old Kurtis and his family were living in Perth when the ...

William Lockwood made his second Olympic Games appearance in 2016, as the Australian men’s coxless four looked to turn their London silver medal into gold. After winning their semi-final, the Aussies ...

Sydney bantamweight Tiana Echegaray only started boxing in 2019 for fitness, but the sport soon became a passion because of the positive habits and lifestyle changes it brought. “Boxing was changing ...

Ellia Green grew up competing in athletics before she was recruited into the Australian Rugby Sevens program after attending a talent identification camp in Melbourne in 2012, a move that certainly ...

After making his debut in 2012, it was a rapid rise to the top for Cam Clark who was named in the 2013-14 Sevens World Series team of the year before winning bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He ...

Bronwen Knox was in the stands at the Sydney 2000 Olympics with her family, who had travelled down from Brisbane to the Games to watch as many sports as they could. At that time Bronwen had only ...

Australia sent a team of 27 athletes to the 2002 Winter Olympics – the Games that rocked a nation when two extraordinary gold medals were won. Australia’s first golden moment came at the short track ...

In the 24 years since women’s hockey was added to the Olympic program, Australia is the only nation to have won the gold medal more than once. It has done so three times - in Seoul in 1988, Atlanta in ...

Heading into his second Olympic Games appearances, Glenn Turner was one of the Kookaburras' most lethal strikers having scoring close to 100 goals for Australia as well as claiming Commonwealth, World ...

Natalie Van Coevorden competed in both swimming and cross country during her high school days, sometimes swimming up to nine times a week for training. In 2010 Natalie finished fourth at the ...