- 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. - Craig Mottram
Craig Mottram is an Australian long distance and middle distance runner. Born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria, Mottram specialises in the 5000 metres event. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. It is there that he found his niche in running and was captain of the school team in his year. On August 14, 2005, Mottram reached a career highlight, coming third in the 5000 metres event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, … - Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born February 16, 1973) is an Australian athlete who is particularly associated with the 400 m race. As an Aboriginal Australian, she is regarded as a role model for her people, and by many in the non-Aboriginal community as a symbol of national reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. She was born in Mackay, Queensland. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, … - 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. - Grant Hackett
Grant George Hackett is an Australian swimmer who won the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This has lead him to be regarded as one of the greatest ever distance swimmers in history. He also collected a gold medal in Sydney for swimming in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay. He is well regarded for his versatility, being the world record holder in the 1500 m and 800 m freestyle, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM (born August 13, 1977 in Gdynia) is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. Klim was first selected to represent Australia in the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada in 1994, while still a student at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1996, he arrived at the Atlanta Olympics ranked first in the world for the 200 m freestyle, but was surprisingly eliminated in the heats. He rebounded to qualify for a finals position in the 100 m butterfly, … - Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady OAM (born on 6 August, 1973), nicknamed "Stuey", is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who started his career as a track cyclist. His most prominent victories came when he and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and when he won Paris-Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady has participated in the Tour de France since 1998, … - 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. - 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, … - 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. - Jason Queally
Jason Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist from Chorley, England. He won an Olympic Gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. While a student at Lancaster University, he represented Lancaster and British Universities in water polo. He took up competitive cycling aged 25. In 1996, he was nearly killed in an accident at the Meadowbank cycling track in Edinburgh, where an 18-inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest cavity via his armpit. - Benjamin Limo
Benjamin Kipkoech Limo (born August 23, 1974 in Chepkongony, Uasin Gishu) is a Kenyan middle distance runner. He runs every distance from 1500 m to 10,000 m, but mainly competes in 5,000 m, where he has won international medals. Limo did not train seriously until 1997, and ran his first 5,000 m the next year. His first international medals came in 1999, when he won the 1999 World Cross Country Championships and placed second in the 5,000 m at the World Championships, … - 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. - 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. - Kieren Perkins
Kieren John Perkins OAM (born August 14, 1973), is a former Australian professional swimmer. One of the world's best-ever long-distance swimmers, he won two Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996 in the 1500-metre freestyle, and a silver medal in 2000. - Tatiana Grigorieva
Tatiana Grigorieva (Russian: Татьяна Григорьева; born October 8, 1975 in Leningrad, Russia) As a former national level 400m hurdler in Russia, the 172 cm tall Tatiana Grigorieva took up Pole Vaulting when she migrated to Australia in 1997. Within 12 months of picking up a pole, she had become one of the world's best, placing 3rd in the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. In her first appearance at the World Championships in 1999, … - Brooke Hanson
Brooke Louise Hanson OAM (born March 18 1978 in Manly, New South Wales) is an Australian swimmer. A swimmer since the age of four, Hanson was the youngest swimmer on the Australian national team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where she finished fourth in the 200 m breaststroke. However, she would not qualify for another major international competition for eight years, until she qualified for the 100 m breaststroke and 200 m breaststroke at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. - Cadel Evans
Cadel Evans (born 14 February, 1977 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia) is a professional cyclist. Prior to turning to road cycling in 2001, Evans was a champion mountain biker, riding for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing 7th in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. - Louise Sauvage
Alix Louise Sauvage <small>OAM</small> (born 18 September 1973 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian paralympic athlete. Often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in the Southern Hemisphere, she won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic games in front of a home crowd. At the 2004 Olympic Games, she finished 3rd in the demonstration sport of Women's 1500 m wheelchair. - Steve Waugh
Stephen Rodger Waugh AO (born June 2, 1965 in Canterbury, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer and was the captain of the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004. He is the most experienced Test cricketer in history, making 168 appearances. He is known amongst friends as "Tugga", and amongst the public "Iceman" for his ability to remain calm and cool in high-pressure situations throughout his career. - 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, … - Jodie Henry
Jodie Clare Henry OAM (born 17 November 1983), Australian swimmer, is a triple Olympic gold medallist and a four time gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games,former world champion in the 100 m freestyle and former women's world record holder for the 100 metre freestyle. With team mate Libby Lenton, a member of the world record breaking and gold medallist 4x100 m freestyle & the 4x100 m medley teams for Australia in the new mellenium. - 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, … - Achraf Tadili
Achraf Tadili (born July 8, 1980 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a Canadian athlete competing over 800 metres. - Susie O'Neill
Susan "Susie" O'Neill (born August 2, 1973) is an Australian former competitive swimmer from Brisbane, Queensland, who was famously nicknamed "Madame Butterfly". She won the 200 m butterfly at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 200 m freestyle in Sydney. After winning a gold and a silver medal in her first attendance at an international competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, O'Neill never failed to win a medal at any international meet she attended, … - Bill Kirby
William ("Bill") Ashley Kirby (born September 12 1975 in Perth, Western Australia) was an Australian freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1990s and 2000s, who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as part of the 4x200m freestyle relay team. Growing up and being educated at the Christ Church Grammar School, Kirby made his debut at the 1993 Pan Pacific Championships before competing at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, … - Yvonne Murray
Yvonne Murray MBE (born October 4, 1964 in Musselburgh), married name Yvonne Murray-Mooney, is a Scottish former middle distance track and road running athlete. She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. She won the bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games for the 3,000m that were held in Edinburgh. She then went on to win the bronze medal at the European Chamionships for the same event in the same year. - Jessicah Schipper
Jessicah Schipper OAM (born November 19 1986 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. She trains at the Redcliffe Leagues Lawton club in Brisbane, under veteran coach Ken Wood. Schipper made her debut for Australia at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, winning the bronze medal as part of the 4x100 m medley relay team. In 2004 she competed in the Athens Olympics, … - Ricky Ponting
Ricky Thomas Ponting (born December 19 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian cricketer and current captain of the Australia national cricket team (for both One-Day International and Test cricket). Ricky Ponting is also Captain of the Tasmanian Tigers, although international duties make it difficult for him to appear for them. He is a specialist right-hand batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as being a very occasional, but aggressive, … - Matt Welsh
Matthew "Matt" Welsh (born November 18, 1976 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian swimmer who is the world champion in the backstroke and butterfly. Matt currently trains under coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club. He took two golds in 50 metres butterfly and 50 metres backstroke, during one hour, at the World Championships in Shanghai 2006. - Bradley Wiggins
Bradley Wiggins, OBE (born April 28, 1980) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer. He won three medals on the track at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The son of a professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium but grew up in Maida Vale, London. Following in his father's footsteps, he started cycling at an early age, racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome aged 12. At the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, … - 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, … - 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. - Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM (born June 24, 1971) is a former Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter in Australia. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals. She retired from swimming after the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and joined the Australian sports network Nine Network as a host of Nine's Wide World of Sport, and a commentator for swimming. - Adam Gilchrist
Adam Craig Gilchrist (born 14 November 1971 in Bellingen, New South Wales), nicknamed "Gilly" or "Church", is an Australian cricketer. He made his first-class debut in 1992, his first One-Day International appearance in 1996 and his Test debut in 1999. He has been Australia's vice-captain in both forms of the game since 2000, captaining the team when regular captains Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting were unavailable. - Dmitri Markov
Dmitri Markov (born March 14, 1975 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is a retired Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder. He originally competed for his birth country Belarus, but fell out with the Belarusian athletics association and refused to compete for the country at the 1998 European Championships. He moved to Australia and was granted citizenship in 1999. He soon set a new Oceanian record in pole vault with 5.95 metres, … - Michael Diamond
Michael Diamond (born May 20, 1972 in Sydney) is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for Trap both in Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000). He also holds the world record in Trap. Diamond is of Greek heritage. <br clear=all>
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