- John Howard
John Howard (born October 22, 1952) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He is best known for his appearances in the film "The Club", the Australian comedy film, "The Crop" and the television series "SeaChange" and "Always Greener". He currently plays the regular role of Dr. Frank Campion in the Australian medical TV drama, "All Saints".
- 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, …
- 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.
- Natalie Cook
Natalie Louise Cook OAM (born January 19, 1975) is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. Cook was born in Townsville, Queensland. She was the dux of her high school, and subsequently studied medicine. At the same time, she took up volleyball, captaining the Australian Indoor Junior Team in 1992. In 1993, she began playing beach volleyball, before giving up her academic career and going professional the following year.
- Pyrros Dimas
Pyrros Dimas ; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a Greek weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion for Greece. Dimas was born in Himara, Albania (Northern Epirus) of Greek descent, and emigrated to Greece in 1991. He first competed for Greece in the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the 82.5 kg class. His birthplace gave rise to his nickname "The Lion of Himara".
- Gina Riley
Gina Riley (born 6 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actor, writer, singer and comedian. Riley became a popular television performer in the sketch shows "Fast Forward", its successor "Full Frontal", "Big Girl's Blouse" and "Something Stupid". In the latter she was also a producer and writer. She later appeared in "The Games", a spoof behind-the-scenes look at the organising committee of the Sydney Olympics.
- Matt Smith
Matt Smith (born 1967, Liverpool) is a British broadcaster, and currently one of ITV Sport's main presenters. He also presents shows on BBC Radio Five Live He presents "The Championship" highlights programme every Sunday on ITV1, as well as hosting UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League games and highlights. He can also be heard presenting "Weekend Breakfast" with Rachel Burden, and occasionally covering on the "Drive" 4pm-7pm weekday show, …
- K. M. Beenamol
Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K M Beenamol (b. August 15, 1975, "Kombidinjal", a village in Kerala, India) is an international athlete from India. She became the second Indian to reach an Olympics semi-final since P.T. Usha. Until she won an electrifying first heat at the Sydney Olympics 2000, Beenamol was largely unknown. She won the gold medal in women's 800m at Busan Asian Games (2002).
- Rhiana Griffith
Rhiana Jade Griffith (born April 16, 1985 in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia) is an actress, artist and model. She began modeling as a child, doing runway work and catalogue ads, and progressed from there to television commercials. From there, she got her first guest-starring role on the Australian medical drama "Children's Hospital", and won her first film role, as Mercia in the 1998 film "15 Amore".
- Shinobu Asagoe
Shinobu Asagoe , born June 28, 1976, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1997. 2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 (no. 72). In the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top 50 player. She also reached her first WTA tour quarterfinal that year at the Princess Cup at Tokyo defeating Ai Sugiyama and losing to Monica Seles. She also represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics.
- Nathan Baggaley
Nathan Baggaley (born December 6, 1975 in Byron Bay, New South Wales) is an Australian flatwater canoer and surfski champion. He is a three-times world champion in the individual kayak (K1) 500m event and has also won two Olympic silver medals. He made his international debut for Australia in 1997, initially competing in the K2. In 1999 he switched to the K1 and reached the 500m semi-finals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
- Steve Jefferys
Steve Jefferys was the lone rider in the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony. He galloped into the stadium on his Australian Stock Horse "Ammo", which reared, and then Jefferys cracked his whip to signal the beginning of the Opening Ceremony. This was followed by the entrance of a further 120 riders (which included Steve Jefferys' wife, Sandra Langsford) and their Stock Horses.
- Simon Dennis
Simon Dennis MBE (born 24 August 1976 in Henley-on-Thames) is a British rower and Olympic gold medalist. He started rowing at St Paul's School, London and his first international appearance was in 1994 in the GB eight at the Junior World Rowing Championships, winning a bronze medal. After school he attended Imperial College London, winning two Henley Royal Regatta races with them. He raced in the eight at the World Champs in 1997 and 1998, …
- Sevatheda Fynes
Sevatheda Fynes (born October 17, 1974) is a Track and Field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. She graduated Physiology and Exercise Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to injury. She had a minor car accident prior to the 2000 Olympic trials, which limited her training.
- Amy Gillett
Amy Gillett (January 9, 1976 - July 18, 2005) was an Australian track cyclist and rower who represented Australia in both sports before her death in a training accident when a motorist crashed into the Australian squad of cyclists she was training with. She was born Amy Safe in Adelaide and was a world champion junior rower winning a gold medal in the coxless pairs in the Junior World Championships in 1993 and the women's single scull in 1994.
- Alex Fong Lik-Sun
Alex Fong is a professional swimmer-turned-actor and singer based in Hong Kong, nicknamed "Little Flying Fish" for his swimming achievements. As of 2005, he holds several Hong Kong swimming records. He first represented Hong Kong at the age of 11. He also represented Hong Kong at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, but failed to reach the finals. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong.
- Svetlana Krivelyova
Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova ("Russian": Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва; born: June 13, 1969 in Bryansk, Russia) is an athlete who specialises in the shot put. In a long and distinguished career Krivelyova's highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China and her World Championship victory in 2003.
- Paul McKee
Paul "Junior" McKee (born October 15, 1977) in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish sprint athlete. He has represented Ireland many times in international competition, including being a member of the Irish 4 x 400 metres relay team at the Sydney Olympics. He has also represented Northern Ireland, at the Commonwealth Games. Paul is the Irish record holder over 400 metres outdoors and former record holder indoors.
- Pierre Browne
Pierre Browne (born January 14, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian sprinter of Barbadian/Bajan descent. He represented Canada for the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2002 Commonwealth Games, and the 2004 Athens Olympics.
- Alireza Dabir
Alireza Dabir (born September 16, 1977) is a champion freestyle wrestler from Iran. Dabir won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 as well as the World Championship in 1998. He was runner-up in 1999, 2001, and 2002. In the Athens Olympics, Dabir lost his first two matches due to a severe shoulder injury. He is currently a master's student in government management.
- Anna Wood
Anna Wood was born on July 22, 1966 in Roermond, Netherlands, but is now a naturalised Australian and retired world-class kayaker. Wood represented Australia at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. With Katrin Borchert she won bronze in the womens K2 500 Olympic event. Two years later the same team was crowned champions in the K2 500 and K2 1.000m events at the World Championships in Hungary. Wood and Borchert again won the K2 1000 world champion title in 1999.
- Katrin Borchert
Katrin Borchert was born on November 4, 1969 in Warren/Müritz, Germany, but is now a naturalised Australian and retired world-class kayaker. She won a silver medal for Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Borchert represented Australia at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. With Anna Wood she won bronze in the womens K2 500 Olympic event.
- Richard Fox
Former ten time world Slalom champion for Great Britain, Richard Fox (b. 6 May 1960) moved to Australia in 1998 to take up a position as the National Head Coach for the Sydney Olympics. From 2001, Richard was also the Australian Institute of Sport and National Team Head Coach leading the slalom team at 2004 Athens Olympics.
- Tim Male
Tim Male is an Olympic rower who represented GB in the lightweight four at the Olympic Games in 2004. He finished second in the lightweight men's single at the 2006 GB Senior Selection Trials in Belgium. Tim started to row at The Oratory School after deciding that he was a less–than–exceptional cox. After school he moved on to the University of Southampton to study music and continued with his rowing, …
- Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann (born June 10, 1962) is a German 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol shooter. He is a three-time Olympic Champion and twice World Champion. Born in Meissen in Saxony, he took on pistol shooting in 1977 and was eventually trained at the East German national shooting arena in Suhl, Thuringia. He has on several occasions been voted the athlete of the year in Thuringia. He now lives in nearby Stockheim, Bavaria.
- Iztok Čop
Iztok Čop is a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medallist. Iztok started rowing at the age of 13 in Bled, where Slovenia's best rowing club is located. Originally rowing in the coxless pairs, Čop finished second in the World Championships in 1991, and won Bronze at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 with Denis Žvegelj (the first Olympic medal for independent Slovenia). He then switched to the single scull, winning gold at the 1995 World Championship, …
- Martin Cattalini
Martin Cattalini (born October 4, 1973 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian professional basketball player, currently playing for the Cairns Taipans in the National Basketball League. Cattalini began his NBL career for the Perth Wildcats in 1993, where we competed in his first NBL grand final that year and won his first NBL championship in 1995. Struggling to find court-time with the Wildcats behind starting forwards James Crawford, …
- Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical groups. In 1979 Burkhard fulfilled his dream of traveling to Australia. There he studied music at Melbourne’s Latrobe University.
- Ronald Rauhe
Ronald Rauhe (born 3 October 1981 in Berlin) is an athlete from Germany who competes in flatwater canoeing. He has won ten world championship gold medals in the Kayak discipline, more than any other kayak racer currently in competition. Rauhe was selected for the 1997 World Junior Championships in Lahti, Finland at the age of just fifteen years nine months.
- Vebjørn Rodal
Vebjørn Rodal is a Norwegian former middle distance athlete, his career high point coming when he won the gold medal in the 800 m at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Rodal, born and raised in Berkåk, made his international senior debut in 1992, at the Barcelona Olympics, reaching the semi-finals in his event, the 800 m. Part of a group of successful Norwegian athletes, he won his first international medal only two years later, placing second at the 1994 European Championships.
- David Cal
David Cal Figueroa (born October 10, 1982 in Cangas, Galicia, Spain) is a Spanish flatwater canoer. He specialises in the Canadian canoe C1 event. Cal was a junior world championship bronze medallist in Zagreb in 1999 (C1 1000m). The following year he became European C1 500m junior champion at Boulogne, France in 2000. He also won the C1 1000m bronze medal. He was a reserve at the Sydney Olympics. At the 2002 European under-23 championships in Zagreb, Croatia, …
- Kanako Otsuji
is formerly a member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly (April 2003 - April 2007) and now a candidate for a member of the House of Councillors of the National Diet. One of only seven women in the 110-member Osaka Assembly, Otsuji represented the Sakai-ku, Sakai City constituency. As a schoolgirl in Kobe, Otsuji was an Asian Junior karate champion, then later enrolled at Seoul University to study Korean and tae kwon do.
- Henrik Nilsson
Henrik Nilson is a Swedish flatwater canoer and reigning Olympic K-2 1000m kayak champion. Nilsson represented Sweden at the 1996 Olympics as a member of the K-4 1000m kayak crew which placed seventh in the final. His first international medal came at the 1997 World Championships in Dartmouth, Canada, where he won the K2 200m bronze medal with partner Henrik Andersson. His greatest triumphs however came with partner Markus Oscarsson.
- Caitlin Stasey
Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as Rachel Kinski in "Neighbours". Previously she played Francesca Thomas in "The Sleepover Club". Caitlin began taking an interest in acting/performing at age six. Caitlin made her "Neighbours" début on 18 August 2005.
- Kie Kusakabe
is a Japanese judo competitor. She won the 57kg-category bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. She was an officer of the Fukuoka Prefectural Police. She retired from the police in March 2005 and got married in October 2005.
- Tim Wieskötter
Tim Wieskötter, born 12 March 1979 in Emsdetten) is a German flatwater canoer, and current (2006) world champion in both the K-2 Kayak 200m and 500m events. Wieskötter won a bronze medal in the K-2 500m at the Sydney Olympics with team-mate Ronald Rauhe. Since then they have completely dominated the event, winning the major race of the season every year - four world championships (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) and the Olympic gold medal at Athens in 2004.
- Paweł Baraszkiewicz
Paweł Baraszkiewicz is a Polish flatwater canoer who has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Daniel Jędraszko. They also won a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics. That same year Baraskiewicz also won two C2 gold medals at the European championships (in the 500m with Jedrasko and also in the 1000m with Michal Gajownik). At the 2004 Athens games Baraszkiewicz and Jedrasko disappointingly failed to win a medal.
- Christian Gille
Christian Gille (born 6 January 1979 in Wolfen, Germany, European Union) is a German flatwater canoer. he competes in the Canadian canoe events. A junior world champion (C4 1000m) in 1993 he won two senior world championship gold medals with Thomas Zereske in the C2 200m sprint in 1997 and 1998. They also competed at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, placing fifth in the C2 500m final. In 2002 Gille won the only individual (C1) world championship medal of his career.
- Alexander Kovalev
Alexander Kovalev, born 2 March 1975 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov, is a Russian flatwater canoeist. He is a three-time world championship gold medallist in the Canadian canoe (C) events. Having just missed out on a medal at the Sydney Olympics, he and partner Alexander Kostoglod won two medals at Athens in 2004 - silver in the C-2 1000m and bronze over 500m. A member of the Russian national team since 1997, …
- Daniel Jędraszko
Daniel Jędraszko is a Polish flatwater canoer who has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Paweł Baraszkiewicz. They also won a C-2 500m silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The same year Jedrasko won his only European title to date (again in the C-2 5000m). However at the 2004 Athens games they underperformed and came away without a medal.