In the leadup to the Rio 2016 Olympics, Morgan Mitchell ran the fastest 400m time by an Australian in 12 years, but in a brave decision, within two years she walked away from the event setting her ...

In the 10 000 metres at Tokyo 1964, Ron Clarke won Australia’s third bronze medal in the event at successive Olympics. Allan Lawrence and David Power won the previous medals, at Melbourne 1956 and ...

Susan O’Neill ended her lustrous swimming career with eight Olympic medals - an Australian women’s record, shared with Dawn Fraser and Petria Thomas. (Ian Thorpe, with nine, is the only Australian ...

Three-time Olympian Brianna Throssell burst onto the swimming scene at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games, where she won seven bronze medals. Her impressive haul included individual bronze in the ...

Rachael Gunn 'Raygun' got people all over the world talking like few can. Her performances in the face-to-face solo breaking battles at the Paris Olympics, while not enough to claim a win among 16 of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebel Morrow made her Olympic debut at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games riding Oaklee Groover. Morrow contested the individual and team eventing finishing 11th and sixth respectively. The New South Wales ...

Cathy Freeman’s role in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games embedded her name forever in Olympic history. She lit the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium - after the torch had been handled by six Australian ...

Through both face-to-face and online delivery, Olympics Unleashed takes Olympians and aspiring athletes into Australian schools to inspire, motivate and encourage students to be their personal best ...

For most athletes, becoming the youngest in history to win a Championship Tour event and claiming two world titles would be enough. But surfer Tyler Wright is equally proud of her achievements out of ...

DIVING: Tokyo 2020 marks the 12th time Steve Foley has been involved in an Olympic Games, having competed for Australia at three consecutive Olympics from 1976 to 1984 before moving into a coaching ...