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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, ...

Distance freestyler Lani Pallister is the daughter of Janelle Pallister (Elford) – a Seoul 1988 Olympian and Auckland 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medallist – and champion surf lifesaver and ...

Brin Liddell and his Nacra 17 crewmate Rhiannan Brown have an easy familiarity with each other that comes with sailing together for several year and being friends since they were eight. "We stay as ...

Trent Mitton started hockey at just 5-years-old, he grew up playing at the Wesley South Perth hockey club and played for WA in state sides. Trent is a third-generation Kookaburra, with his grandfather ...

Speed skater Kenneth Kennedy was the first Australian Winter Olympian when he competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games in 1936. He competed in the 500m, 1500m and 5000m - placing 29th, 33rd and ...

Madeleine ‘Maddie’ Edmunds joined Jennifer Cleary, Kerry Hore and Jessica Hall in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls at Rio, in what was her Olympic debut. The boat made a disappointing exit from the 2016 ...

The career of Petria Thomas, spanning three Olympics, possessed something of a Cinderella quality. For much of it she was outshone by Susie “Madame Butterfly” O’Neill, and as she approached her final ...

Cedric Dubler was a kid who was always outside, whether it was riding up and down the street on his bike or flipping about on his skateboards and scooters. He was good at basketball, into volleyball ...

Having grown up between Mount Beauty and Falls Creek in country Victoria, Britt Cox was surrounded by a ski-mad family which gave her the perfect start in the sport. Once she gained the desire to be ...

Craig Stevens will forever be remembered as the chap who surrendered his right to swim in the 400 metres at Athens, to enable Ian Thorpe to successfully defend the Olympic title that he had won at ...

Matthew Hauser, hailing from Hervey Bay, entered Paris 2024 as Australia's premier triathlete and top-10 ranked in the world. His journey to success has been nothing short of meteoric. 2017 was a ...