Jon Sieben’s victory in the 200 metres butterfly at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics represented one of the most remarkable upsets in swimming history. The Australian went into the final of the race as ...

Holly Harris made her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 with Ice Dance partner Jason Chan. The pair went agonisingly close to competing at Beijing 2022 and used that motivation to produce four ...

Edwin Flack was a trailblazer - the first Australian to compete at the Olympic Games, and first to win. When he left Melbourne in 1895 to study accountancy in London, he was the Australian mile ...

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 ...

Reilly Flanagan made his Olympic debut in aerial skiing at Milano Cortina 2026. He became just the third Australian male athlete in the discipline, and the first to compete in the mixed team event.

As the second youngest member of the Australian Olympic Team at Milano Cortina 2026, 16-year-old Ally Hickman had an impressive debut, placing seventh in the women’s snowboard slopestyle as the ...

When Tokyo gold medallist Logan Martin first tried BMX Freestyle as a 12-year-old, his dad came up with a novel solution to break his fall when his tricks didn’t quite come off. Logan and his dad ...

When people think of Sydney 2000, they remember the highlights: Cathy Freeman winning gold and proudly carrying the Australian and Aboriginal flags, the Aussie men’s 4x100 relay swim team finally ...

Australia’s only gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games in London came in the sport of rugby union. Rugby was played in the Olympics only four times - in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924. The Australian team, ...

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 ...

Erin Densham (along with Emma Moffatt) became the first Australian triathlete to compete at three Olympic Games as she took to the starting line at the Rio 2016 Looking to improve on her London 2012 ...

Hal Nerdal represented Australia in Nordic Combined at the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley and there hasn’t been another Australian achieve this feat since. Hal participated in the 60m jump and the 15 ...