Sport climber Campbell Harrison is used to tackling pretty steep obstacles, but the ones that blocked his dream at the Tokyo Olympics – where his sport made its Games debut – were insurmountable. That ...

Northern NSW high school student Jeff Dunne from Casuarina on the Tweed Coast cemented his place as one of the youngest athletes that qualified for Paris when he won gold at the Oceania Breaking ...

Matthew Smith won a bronze medal as a member of the Australian men’s hockey team in 1996. From New South Wales, Smith was a striker noted for his speed and scoring ability. The team went through the ...

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 ...

Having helped Australia claim bronze at the 2013 Summer University Games, win the Oceania Championship and then secure bronze at the 2014 World Championships, Nat Burton lined up for Australia at the ...

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 ...

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Ajla Tomljanovic represents Australia after first announcing her switch in nationality to Australia in 2014. Ajla started playing tennis at six-years-old in Metalac, Croatia, ...

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 ...

After becoming an Australian champion in primary school, Aleksandra Stoilova started formally training. Through her teenage years she collected many 100m/200m national titles and continued to trim her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...