- Nick Willis
Nicholas Ian Willis is a New Zealand Athlete, in the 1500 metres, who was a gold medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He was the first athlete from New Zealand to win the 1500 metres at the Commonwealth games (although Peter Snell won gold in Perth in at the Empire Games). His gold-medal winning run was completed in a time of 3:38.49 minutes. Willis was born on the 25 April 1983 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, …
- Emma Snowsill
Emma Snowsill was born June 15, 1981 on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she resides. She is a professional triathlete and is a multiple World Champion and Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist. Snowsill is widely regarded as the greatest female triathlete of her generation and one of the greatest of all time.
- Moss Burmester
Moss James Burmester (born June 19, 1981 in Hastings, New Zealand) is a New Zealand swimmer, who was a gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He set a new Commonwealth Games 200m Butterfly record in a time of 1:56.64. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
- Leisel Jones
Leisel Marie Jones OAM (born 30 August, 1985 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia) is an Australian swimmer. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics - at just 15 years old - and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of Gold medal winning Australian team in the Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004. She is noted for employing a classical breaststroke technique, typified by a slow, but deeper stroke cycle, …
- Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang is an Indian shooter.
- Ryan Bayley
Ryan Bayley OAM (born March 9, 1982 in Perth, Western Australia) is a professional cyclist, who started competitive cycling in 1997 at fifteen years of age. He is a member of the "Albany Cycling Club" and employed by the Australian Institute of Sport. He lives in Alexander Heights, a suburb of Perth. His greatest success as a track cyclist has been in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he won gold medals in the sprint and Keirin events.
- Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the "Thorpedo" or "Thorpey", is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and in 2001 he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds, the second-highest number of any swimmer.
- Samaresh Jung
Samaresh Jung (born 5 May, 1970) is a shooting sportsman from India specialising in the field of Air pistol, apart from other fields. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won two Gold medals, in the Men's free pistol pairs and in the Open event of 25 m standard pistol pairs, both in partnership with Jaspal Rana. He received the Arjuna award in 2002. He is employed with the CISF and lives in New Delhi.
- Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell (born 23 November 1982) is a Jamaican sprinter, and is currently the 100m co-world record holder with Justin Gatlin, with a time of 9.77 seconds.
- Petria Thomas
A winner of 15 national titles, Petria Ann Thomas OAM (born August 25 1975) is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby. In 1994, at the age of 17, Thomas won a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly at the World Championships. She followed this with two gold medals, in the 100 m butterfly and 4x100 m freestyle in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.
- Peter Nicol
Peter Nicol, MBE (born April 5, 1973 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire), is a former professional squash player from the United Kingdom, who represented first Scotland and then England in international squash. In 1998, while still competing for Scotland, he became the first player from the UK to hold the World No. 1 ranking. During his career, he won one World Open title, two British Open titles, and four Commonwealth Games Gold Medals.
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born January 29, 1970 in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) is a shooter who won India's first individual silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. His event was the Men's Double Trap. In 2005 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne, he was the member of the winning team in the double trap event. He won the gold in the individual and team events in Men's double trap at the 2005 Asian Clay Shooting championships at Bangkok.
- Jaspal Rana
Jaspal Rana was born 28 June 1976 in the Uttarkashi District of Uttarakhand, India. He is an Indian shooter who specializes in the 25m Centre Fire Pistol category. He grew up in Delhi, studying at the K.V. Air Force School, and at St. Stephen's and Sri Aurobindo colleges. His earliest guru was his father, Shri Narayan Singh Rana, who was a Border Security Force official. Later on, Sunny Thomas and Tibor Ganazol coached him to perfection.
- Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra (b.1983) is a shooting sports person from India specialising in the field of Air rifle. He was the youngest Indian participant at the 2000 Olympic Games. He won six gold medals at various international meets in 2001. In the Air rifle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won Gold in the Pairs event and Silver in the individual event. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he broke the Olympic record but failed to win a medal.
- Wong Choong Hann
Wong Choong Hann is a professional Malaysian badminton player. He currently resides in Seri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.
- Vijay Kumar
Vijay Kumar is an Indian Shooter. He won two gold medals in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Pairs) with Pemba Tamang & the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
- Alexandre Despatie
Alexandre Despatie (born June 8, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian diver. He is the current World champion at the 1 and 3m springboard and is the first diver to have been World champion in the three categories (1, 3, 10m platform).
- Libby Lenton
Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Lenton OAM is a member of the Australian Women's Olympic swim team, an Athens gold medalist, and former holder (with teammates Alice Mills, Petria Thomas, and Jodie Henry) of the world record in the women's 4 × 100 metre relay (with a time of 3:35.94). Lenton was also a bronze medalist in the Women's 50 metre Freestyle. She had previously been the holder of the 100 m Freestyle world record (53.66) set at the Olympic swimming Trials held in Sydney, …
- John Steffensen
John Steffensen (born August 30, 1982) is an Australian athlete, who specializes in 200 and 400 metres. His personal bests are 20.88 and 44.73. He competed in the 2004 Olympics, and was a part of the Australian team that won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, he competed in 400 metres where he finished last in the final with 45.46. Steffensen won the gold medal in the 400 m at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, …
- Pemba Tamang
Pemba Tamang is an Indian Shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Pairs) with Vijay Kumar & the silver medal in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
- Vivek Singh
Vivek Singh is an Indian shooter. He won the gold & silver medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol (Pairs) & Men's 50m Pistol (Pairs) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games with Samaresh Jung. He also won the silver lanth tha saala medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
- Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Thompson, CBE (born July 30, 1958 in Worcester Park), known commonly as Daley Thompson, is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times. Thompson is of Nigerian and Scottish heritage. Thompson's best score in the decathlon was 8847 points, set in the 1984 Olympic competition – a world record that stood until 1992, …
- Tejaswini Sawant
Tejaswini Sawant (born: 12 September, 1980) is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. In 2006, she won gold medals in Women's 10m Air Rifle singles and Women's 10m Air Rifle Pairs (with Avneet Kaur Sidhu) events at the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne. She was selected to represent India at Commonwealth Games ahead of Asian Games gold medallist Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat and world record holder Suma Shirur after winning 5 gold medals, …
- Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey (b. May 10, 1960 in Hanover, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides. She ranks at number four on the list of the all time female athletes on the 100 meters, and number three on the corresponding 200 meters list. Ottey holds the record for being the oldest track medalist ever, …
- Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE (born January 5, 1974 in Farnborough (London Borough of Bromley) is an Olympic Athlete, who represented the Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion.
- Shaun Pollock
Shaun Maclean Pollock (born July 16, 1973 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African cricketer who is considered a bowling all-rounder. From 2000 to 2003 he was the captain of the South African cricket team. He was also chosen as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2003.
- Kerryn McCann
Kerryn McCann (born 2 May 1967) is an Australian athlete, and is one of Australia's most successful long-distance runners. McCann was born in Bulli, New South Wales in 1967. She had an early interest in athletics, winning the New South Wales primary school cross country championship in 1979. However, McCann gave up competitive athletics until taking it up again near the end of high school, running her first marathon at the age of seventeen.
- Stephanie Rice
Stephanie Rice (born 17 June 1988 in Queensland), is a swimmer from Brisbane, Australia. She is a Commonwealth Gold medalist in the 200 metres Individual Medley from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll to claim the gold medal in the event in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19sec. She also won the 400m individual medley.
- Akhil Kumar
Akhil Kumar is an Indian Boxer. He won the gold medal in the Bantamweight 54 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
- Chris Hoy
Chris Hoy (born March 23, 1976 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish track cyclist and Olympic Games gold and silver medal winner. Prior to taking up track cycling, Hoy had raced BMX and competed at rowing for the Scottish junior team winning Silver in the 1993 British Championships with Grant Florence in the Coxless Pairs. Hoy went to school at George Watson's College, an independent school in Edinburgh. He continued his studies at the University of St Andrews in 1996, …
- Roger Black
Roger Anthony Black MBE (born 31 March 1966) is a former Olympic athlete and now works as a television presenter and motivational speaker. Born in Portsmouth, England, to David (a doctor) and Thelma, with a twin sister Julia, he attended Portsmouth Grammar School, becoming Head Boy in 1983/4. Roger has a collection of fifteen medals from major senior athletics competitions to add to his two European junior championship gold medals.
- Liz McColgan
Liz McColgan, MBE (born March 24, 1964) is a former Scottish long distance track and road running athlete. Born Elizabeth Lynch, she was brought up in Dundee. She won the gold in the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan at 10,000 metres, and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. She also won a gold medal in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, and a silver medal in the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
- Craig MacLean
Craig MacLean (born 31 July, 1971 in Grantown-on-Spey) is a Scottish race cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Olympics and 2004 Olympics winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics. MacLean has also won medals in five Cycling World Championships in the team Sprint, Silver in 1999,Silver in 2000,Bronze in 2001,Gold in 2002,Bronze in 2003 and Bronze in 2004.
- Anna Meares
Anna Meares (born September 21, 1983 in Blackwater Queensland) is an Australian track cyclist. During the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she won a gold medal, and set a new world record in the Women's 500 metre time trial of 33.952 seconds. Meares had to beat a new Olympic record set just minutes previously by the reigning World Record holder, Yonghua Jiang of China.
- Alice Mills
Alice Mary Mills OAM (born May 23, 1986 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian sprint freestyle, butterfly and individual medley swimmer who represented Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics, winning two relay gold medals. Trained by her coach Shannon Rollason at the Chandler Sports Complex along with her good friend Jodie Henry, Mills was selected to make her international debut at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, at the age of 16, …
- Sushma Rana
Sushma Rana is a professional Indian shooter. She competes in 25-metre shooting events. She is the younger sister of Jaspal Rana. She has held the national record for 25-metre shooting event at least from 2002 to 2003. She competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games at Melbourne and won a gold in the 25m women's pair shooting event with Saroja Kumari Jhuthu.
- Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard MBE (born November 5, 1972 in Glasgow) is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consequentive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988. She was one of Britain's leading freestyle sprint swimmers for almost two decades, prior to her retirement early in 2005. Sheppard learned to swim at the Milngavie and Bearsden club and first emerged as a potential future medal winner at the age of fifteen, …
- David Carry
David Carry (born 8 October 1981, Aberdeen) is a Scottish swimmer. His specialism is freestyle, and has represented Scotland at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2006 he won gold in the 400 metre freestyle and 400 metre individual medley. He is currently a student at Loughborough University.
- Nicky Boje
Nico "Nicky" Boje (born 20 March, 1973, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State) and attended the prestigious Grey College in Bloemfontein was a South African cricketer who played in 43 Tests and 115 one-day internationals for South Africa. Boje's international career began in 1995 against Zimbabwe, and although he was in and out of the team due to injuries he established himself as South Africa's first choice spin bowler.
- Anuja Jung
Anuja Jung is an Indian Shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions & the silver medal in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) with Anjali Bhagwat at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She is the wife of Samaresh Jung, a reputed shooting sportsperson from India.