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List of notable Australian sportswomen. List is based on their inclusion into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, Olympic and Paralympic individual gold medalist, multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships or recognized through public opinion lists. The list is not exhaustive.


Athletics

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Judy Amoore Judith Florence Amoore-Pollock (born 25 June 1940) is an Australian former track running, runner. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, she won a bronze medal in the first 400 metres ra ...
- Olympic Games individual medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Raelene Boyle Raelene Ann Boyle (born 24 June 1951) is an Australian retired athlete, who represented Australia at three Olympic Games as a sprinter, winning three silver medals, and was named one of 100 National Living Treasures by the National Trust of ...
- multiple Olympic medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Maureen Caird Maureen Caird (born 29 September 1951) is an Australian former track athlete, who specialised in the sprint hurdles. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, she became the youngest-ever individual Olympic athletics champion at the time, at age 17, w ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Betty Cuthbert Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, (20 April 1938 – 6 August 2017) was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres ...
- multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Shirley de la Hunty Shirley Barbara de la Hunty AO, MBE (née Strickland; 18 July 1925 – 11 February 2004), known as Shirley Strickland during her early career, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports. ...
- multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Jane Flemming Jane Christina Flemming OAM (born 14 April 1965) is a former Australian Olympic track and field athlete. She completed her HSC in 1982 at Mater Christi College, Belgrave. She was the 1990 Commonwealth Games champion at heptathlon and long jum ...
- multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist *
Debbie Flintoff-King Debra ("Debbie") Lee Flintoff-King, (OAM) (born 20 April 1960) is a retired Australian athlete, and winner of the women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Athletics career Flintoff-King was born in Melbourne, the daughter of ...
- Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Cathy Freeman Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman (born 16 February 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set ...
- Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Tracey Freeman - - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Marjorie Jackson Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (13 September 1931) is a former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athlete. She finished her sporting career with two Olympic and seven Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, six individual world records and ...
- multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Pam Kilborn Pamela Kilborn-Ryan, AM, MBE (born 12 August 1939) is an Australian former athlete who set world records as a hurdler. For three years, she was ranked as the world's top woman hurdler. Kilborn was also an Olympic class sprinter, Long Jumper ...
- multiple Olympic Games individual medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Lisa Llorens Lisa Christina Llorens, OAM(born 17 January 1978) is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in Canberra. She specialises in Paralympic high jumping, long jumping, and sprinting, participating in competitions for athletes with au ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Marlene Mathews Marlene Judith Mathews AO (later ''Willard''; born 14 July 1934) is a retired Australian Olympic sprinter. She has been described as 'one of Australia's greatest and unluckiest' champions.Lisa McIntosh Elizabeth "Lisa" McIntosh, Order of Australia, OAM (born 16 December 1982) is an Australian Paralympian Track and field, athlete with cerebral palsy, who competes mainly in sprint events. Personal McIntosh was born in the Melbourne suburb of ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Decima Norman Clara Decima Hamilton (), MBE (9 September 1909 – 29 August 1983) was an Australian athlete. She was the only Australian woman who won five gold medals at the 1938 British Empire Games. Biography Norman was born on 9 September 1909 in Ta ...
- multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Glynis Nunn Glynis or Glynnis is a female and rarely male given name of Welsh origin. It may refer to: *Glynis Barber (born 1955), South African actress *Glynis Breakwell, (born 1952), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath *Glynnis Breytenbach, South Afr ...
- Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Lisa Ondieki Lisa Frances Ondieki (née O'Dea, formerly Martin; born 12 May 1960) is an Australian former long-distance runner. In the marathon, she won the 1988 Olympic silver medal and two Commonwealth Games gold medals. Other marathon victories includ ...
- Olympic Games individual medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Sally Pearson Sally Pearson, OAM (née McLellan; born 19 September 1986) is an Australian former athlete. She is the 2011 and 2017 World champion and 2012 Olympic champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She also won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles at th ...
- Olympic games gold medalist * Alison Quinn - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Louise Sauvage Alix Louise Sauvage, OAM (born 18 September 1973) is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer and leading coach. Sauvage is often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in Australia. She won nine gold and four silver medals at fo ...
- multiple Paralaympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Donna Smith - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Katrina Webb Katrina Lea Webb-Denis, OAM (born 22 May 1977) is an Australian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games. Personal Webb has a mild form of cerebral palsy whic ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Jodi Willis Jodi Glenda Willis-Roberts, OAM (born 24 April 1967) is a visually impaired Australian Paralympic athlete and goalballer. Biography Willis-Roberts was born in the Melbourne suburb of Preston. She first competed at the 1988 Seoul Paralympic ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Amy Winters Amy Louise Winters, OAM (born 19 March 1978) is an arm amputee Australian Paralympic athlete. She won seven medals at three Paralympic Games, including five gold medals. Career She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, and was born without ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist


Basketball

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Suzy Batkovic Suzy Batkovic (born 17 December 1980 in Lambton, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian professional basketball player and politician. Suzy played her junior basketball with the Port Hunter Basketball Club in Newcastle. She has played bas ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Sandy Brondello Sandra Anne "Sandy" Brondello (born 20 August 1968) is an Australian women's basketball coach, and the current head coach of the New York Liberty of the WNBA. Brondello played in Australia, Germany and the WNBA before retiring to become a coa ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Donna Burns Donna Burns OAM is an Australian basketball player with an intellectual disability who won gold as a member of thPearlsin the 1992 Madrid Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap. Burns is an Indigenous Australian and descendant of th ...
- gold medalist at 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap *
Trisha Fallon Trisha Nicole Dykstra (; born 23 July 1972) is an Australian retired basketball player in the Australian Women's National Basketball League and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) of the United States. She also played with the ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Kristi Harrower Kristi Harrower (born 4 March 1975) is an Australian professional basketball player, who three times (2000, 2004 and 2008) won the silver medal with the Australian Women's Team at the Summer Olympics, and also the bronze in 2012. She played in ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Lauren Jackson Lauren Elizabeth Jackson (born 11 May 1981) is an Australian professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1997, when she ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist and three-time WNBA MVP; 2021 inductee of the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as basketball's most complete library, in addition to promoting and pres ...
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Erin Phillips Erin Victoria Phillips (born 19 May 1985) is an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, a radio host, and a former professional basketball player. She played nine seasons in the Wo ...
- Olympic Games medalist and multiple FIBA World Cup medalist; also two-time MVP of
AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football league for female players. The first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 1 ...
in Australian rules football *
Rachael Sporn Rachael Pamela Sporn (born 26 May 1968, in Murrayville) is an Australian former basketball player and three time Olympian. Sporn was Development Executive for the Australian Melanoma Research Foundation but has since left the organisation. C ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Penny Taylor Penelope Jane Taylor (born 24 May 1981) is an Australian retired professional basketball player and assistant coach. During her 19-year career, Taylor spent the most time with the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, where she won three championships. ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Liesl Tesch Liesl Dorothy Tesch AM (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, sailor, and politician. She is a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Gosford since the 2017 Gosford state by-el ...
- multiple Paralympic medalist and gold medalist in sailing. *
Michele Timms Michele Margaret Timms (born 28 June 1965) is an Australian basketball coach and retired professional basketball player who played for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association(WNBA). Many people consider the Melbourne ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Canoeing

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Katrin Borchert Katrin Borchert (born 4 November 1969) is an East German-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one silver (1992: K-4 500 m for Germany) and two br ...
- multiple Olympic medalist * Jessica Fox - Olympic Games gold medalist * Anna Wood - multiple Olympic medalist *
Danielle Woodward Danielle Anne Woodward APM OAM (born 20 March 1965 in Melbourne) is an Australian slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal in the K1 event at the 199 ...
- Olympic Games medalist


Cricket

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Belinda Clark Belinda Jane Clark (born 10 September 1970) is an Australian former cricketer and sports administrator. A right-handed batter, she served as the captain of the national women's team for eleven years and was a member of triumphant World Cup ca ...
- former captain and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Ellyse Perry Ellyse Alexandra Perry (born 3 November 1990) is an Australian sportswoman who has represented her country in cricket and association football. Having debuted for both the national cricket team and the national soccer team at the age of 16, s ...
- dual international cricket and football *
Karen Rolton Karen Louise Rolton (born 21 November 1974) is an Australian former cricketer and captain of the national women's team. A left-handed batter, she has scored the most runs for her country in women's Test cricket. International cricket After m ...
- former leading batsman *
Lisa Sthalekar Lisa Carprini Sthalekar (born 13 August 1979) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer and captain of the Australia women's national cricket team. In domestic cricket, she represented New South Wales. She was a right-handed all ...
- former leading all rounder *
Betty Wilson Betty Rebecca Wilson (21 November 1921 – 22 January 2010) was considered one of the greatest woman cricketers of all time. She represented Australia in Women's Test cricket between 1947–48 and 1957–58. Wilson batted right-handed, and was ...
former leading batsman and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Cycling

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Sara Carrigan Sara Carrigan (born 7 September 1980 in Gunnedah, New South Wales) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam. ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Michelle Ferris Michelle Ferris (24 September 1976) is an Australian cyclist. She won the Silver Medal in Women's sprint in 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics. Her biggest rival was Félicia Ballanger, who beat her in the World Championship ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Anna Meares Anna Maree Devenish Meares (born 21 September 1983) is an Australian retired track cyclist. She currently resides in Adelaide in South Australia where the Australian Institute of Sport's Track Cycling program has its headquarters at the Adelaid ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist *
Kathy Watt Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit). She has won 24 national championships i ...
- Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Diving

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Brittany Broben Brittany Broben (born 23 November 1995) is an Australian former diver. She won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics in the 10 m platform diving event with a score of 366.50, behind Chen Ruolin of China Personal Nicknamed Britt, Brob ...
- Olympic Games individual medallist *
Jenny Donnet Jennifer Barbara Donnet (born 26 May 1963) is a retired Australian competitive diver. She was the first woman in any sport to represent Australia at four Olympic Games, competing in 1980 (Moscow), 1984 (Los Angeles), 1988 (Seoul) and 1992 (Bar ...
- multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist *
Chantelle Newbery Chantelle Lee Newbery (née Michell) (born 6 May 1977) is an Australian former diver. She won a gold medal in diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2006 became the 22nd athlete to be named in the Australian Institute of Sport Awards' "Bes ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Loudy Wiggins Loudy Wiggins (née Tourky) (born 7 July 1979) is a former Australian diver. She was born in Haifa, Israel to Palestinian parents, but moved to Australia when she was 3 years old. Wiggins was a gymnast at the Australian Institute of Sport, th ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist *
Melissa Wu Melissa Paige Li Kun Wu (born 3 May 1992) is an Australian diver who has represented Australia at four Olympic Games, winning a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games and a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games. She has also represented Austra ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist


Equestrian

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Julie Higgins Julie Elizabeth Higgins, OAM (née Fowler, born 28 February 1958) is an Australian equestrian rider who won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney. Personal Higgins was born in Sydney on 28 February 1958. She was born with F ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Gillian Rolton Gillian Rolton (3 May 1956 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. She competed in two Olympic Games, the 1992 Barcelona Games and 1996 Atlanta Games, winning a gold medal in team eventing both times on her horse ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Wendy Schaeffer Wendy Lynn Schaeffer, OAM (born 16 September 1974 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian equestrian and Olympic champion. She won a team gold medal in eventing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Schaeffer was inducted into th ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Golf

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Edwina Kennedy Edwina Jane Kirkby (née Kennedy), born 10 June 1959, is a former Australian amateur golfer. In 1978, she was the first Australian to win the British Ladies Amateur and was a member of the winning 1978 Australian Espirito Santo Trophy team. Earl ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Jan Stephenson Jan Lynn Stephenson (born 22 December 1951) is an Australian professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1974 and won three major championships and 16 LPGA Tour events. She has 41 worldwide victories including (10) LPGA Legend ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee *
Karrie Webb Karrie Ann Webb (born 21 December 1974) is an Australian professional golfer. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and also turns out once or twice a year on the ALPG Tour in her home country. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of ...
– winner of multiple women's major championships and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee *
Leonara Wray Leonora or Leonara may refer to: People *Leonora (given name), a feminine given name * Leonora of Castile (disambiguation) *Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile *Leonora (singer) (born 19 ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Gymnastics

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Lauren Mitchell Lauren Stephanie Mitchell (born 23 July 1991) is an Australian former artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2010 World champion on the Floor (gymnastics), floor exercise and the 2009 W ...
- World champion gold medalist *
Monette Russo Monette Simone Russo (born 4 August 1988 in Lilydale, Victoria) is an Australian former artistic gymnast. She made history by becoming the first Australian gymnast ever to win an individual world championship medal at the 2005 World Artistic Gy ...
- World champion medalist


Hockey

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Alyson Annan Alyson Regina Annan (born 12 June 1973) is an Australian field hockey coach and retired field hockey player, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals. Until January 2022, ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Sharon Buchanan Sharon Lee Buchanan, OAM (née Patmore; (born 12 March 1963) is an Australian retired field hockey forward, who competed in three Summer Olympics for her country, starting in 1984. Born in Busselton, Western Australia, Buchanan was inducted ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Diane Gorman - former captain and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Rechelle Hawkes Rechelle Margaret Hawkes, (born 30 May 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) is the former captain of the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the ''Hockeyroos'',she was captain for eight years and became the secon ...
- multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Jacqueline Pereira Jacqueline ("Jackie") Margaret Pereira, OAM (born 29 October 1964 in Perth, Western Australia) is a former field hockey striker from Australia, who competed for her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 (Seoul, S ...
- multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Nova Peris Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Commonwealth Games gold medalist in athletics *
Liane Tooth Liane Marianne Tooth, OAM (born 13 March 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a retired field hockey forward, who twice won the gold medal with the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the ''Hockeyroos'', at the Summer Olympics: in Se ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Horse racing

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Gai Waterhouse Gabriel Marie "Gai" Waterhouse (née Smith; born 2 September 1954) is an Australian horse trainer and businesswoman. The daughter of Tommy J. Smith, a leading trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses, Waterhouse was born and raised in Sydney. After ...
- leading Australian trainer


Motor sport

* Amanda Sparks - leading Australian driver *
Leanne Tander Leanne Ferrier (sometimes known as Leanne Tander, born 5 June 1980 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian race car driver having raced cars such as Formula Ford, Formula 3 and in the Supercars Championship. Career Ferrier started in karts i ...
- leading Australian driver


Lacrosse

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Jen Adams Jen Adams (born 1980) is the head women's lacrosse coach at Loyola University Maryland and was an All-American lacrosse player at the University of Maryland from 1998 to 2001, leading the Terrapins to national titles for four straight years, i ...
- world champion, NCAA Lacrosse legend *
Hannah Nielsen Hannah Nielsen (born 28 November 1987 in Adelaide, Australia) is the current head coach of the University of Michigan women’s lacrosse team. She was formerly the first women's lacrosse assistant coach at the University of Colorado. Originally ...
- world champion *
Wendy Piltz Wendy Piltz (born 24 August 1956) is a former Australian cricketer who played as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in one Test match and three One Day Internationals for Australia in 1984, all against India. She played domestic cricket ...
- world champion *
Jenny Williams Jenny Williams (born 1939) is an author and academic at Dublin City University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Queen's University Belfast , mottoeng = For so much, what shall we give back? , top_free_label = , top_fr ...
- world champion


Netball

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Margaret Caldow Margaret Elaine Caldow (born 28 November 1941), also known as Marg Caldow, is a former Australia netball international and a former England head coach. She represented Australia at the 1963, 1975 and the 1979 World Netball Championships, winn ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Jane Cowan - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Michelle den Dekker Michelle den Dekker , also known as Michelle Fielke, is an Australian netballer from South Australia. den Dekker represented Australia in 84 tests between 1988 and 1995, including a record 71 as captain. She received the Medal of the Order of A ...
- leading defender, World and Commonwealth Games champion, longest reigning Captain, elite coach *
Liz Ellis Elizabeth Margaret Ellis, (born 17 January 1973) is a retired Australian netball player, a member of the national team from 1992 until 2007 and captain for the last four of those years. She is the most capped international player for Australian ...
- leading defender and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Sharelle McMahon Sharelle Jane McMahon (born 12 August 1977) is an Australian former netball player who captained the Australia national netball team. She played in the goal attack and goal shooter positions. Domestic career Born in Bamawm, Victoria, McMahon ...
- leading Australian shooter *
Anne Sargeant Anne Sargeant, OAM (born 28 December 1957) is a retired Australian netball player and current sports commentator. Sargeant played in the Australian national team from 1978 to 1988, captaining the side for six years. After her retirement from ...
- leading goal shooter and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Vicki Wilson Vicki Wilson, OAM, (born 11 February 1965 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian netball coach and retired international player. She is the current head coach of the Netball Fiji side. Netball career Wilson was a part of the Australian nati ...
- leading goal shooter and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Polocrosse

* Kylie Dowling - Western Australian,
polocrosse Polocrosse is a team sport that is a combination of polo and lacrosse. It is played outside, on a field (the pitch), on horseback. Each rider uses a cane or fibreglass stick to which is attached a racquet head with a loose, thread net, in whi ...
rider


Rowing

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Kim Crow Kimberley Jean "Kim" Brennan (née Crow; born 9 August 1985) is a retired Australian rower. She is a sixteen-time national champion, two-time World Champion, three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medallist. Personal Crow was born in Melbourne ...
- Olympic Games multiple medalist *
Adair Ferguson Adair Janelle Ferguson (born 5 October 1955) is an Australian former World Champion lightweight rower. She became Australia's first female world champion rower in 1985 in only her second year of rowing. Club and state rowing Ferguson had repre ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Megan Marcks Megan Leanne Marcks (née Still), OAM (born 19 October 1972) is an Australian former national, Olympic and world champion rower. She is an Olympic and World Champion in the coxless pair who represented Australia at the Olympics in 1992 and 1996 ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Kate Slatter Kate Elizabeth Slatter OAM (born 10 November 1971; married name Kate Allen) is an Australian former rower, a sixteen time national champion, world champion and Olympic champion from Adelaide, South Australia. She is a three-time Olympian who i ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Sailing

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Jenny Armstrong Jennifer Margaret Armstrong (born 3 March 1970) is an Olympic sailor from New Zealand. After competing for her native country at the 1992 Olympics, she moved to Australia in 1996 and won a historic sailing gold for her adopted country at the ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Kay Cottee Kay Cottee (née McLaren, born 25 January 1954) is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her yacht ''Blackmores Fi ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Tessa Parkinson Tessa Parkinson OAM (born 22 September 1986) is an Australian sailor from Perth, Western Australia. Parkinson and skipper Elise Rechichi represented Australia in the 470 class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao, China, winning the gold me ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Elise Rechichi Elise Maree Rechichi Order of Australia, OAM (born 11 January 1986) is an Australian sailing (sport), sailor from Perth, Western Australia. Rechichi and crewmate Tessa Parkinson represented Australia in the 470 (dinghy), 470 class at the 2008 S ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Belinda Stowell Belinda Josephine Stowell (born 28 May 1971 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is an Australian sailor and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in the 470 Class with Jenny Armstrong at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Liesl Tesch Liesl Dorothy Tesch AM (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, sailor, and politician. She is a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Gosford since the 2017 Gosford state by-el ...
- Paralympic Games gold medalist


Shooting

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Suzanne Balogh Suzanne Elspeth (Suzy) Balogh OAM (born 8 May 1973 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales) is a sport shooter from Australia. Balogh competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in Trap. She also competed in the Double Trap event ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Libby Kosmala Elizabeth "Libby" Dudley Kosmala (née Richards), OAM (born 8 July 1942) is an Australian shooter with paraplegia. She represented Australia at twelve Paralympics from 1972 to 2016, and won thirteen medals, nine of them gold. Personal Kosma ...
- Multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Judith Trim Judith Trim (11 October 1943 – 9 January 2001, also known as Jude or Judy, and for a while by her first married name, as Jude Waters) was an English studio potter. From 1969 to 1975, she was married to Roger Waters of the rock band Pink Floy ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Skiing

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Torah Bright Torah Jane Bright (born 27 December 1986) is an Australian professional snowboarder. She is Australia's most successful Winter Olympian, former Olympic gold and silver medalist, two time X Games gold medalist, three time US Open winner, two ti ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Alisa Camplin Alisa Peta Camplin, (born 10 November 1974) is an Australian aerial skier who won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the second ever winter Olympic gold medal for Australia. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Camplin finished third to receive a bronz ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Jacqui Cooper Jacqueline Cooper (born 6 January 1973) is an Australian motivational speaker and retired freestyle skier. Skiing career Cooper started skiing aerials at age 16 and was on the Australian team for 20 years. During her career she had many injurie ...
- world champion *
Lydia Lassila Lydia Lassila (née Ierodiaconou) (born 17 January 1982) is an Australian Olympic freestyle skier gold medalist who competed in the 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympic Games. She is the 2010 Olympic champion and the 2014 bronze med ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist *
Kirstie Marshall Kirstie Claire Marshall, OAM (born 21 April 1969) is an Australian aerial skier and Victorian state politician. Marshall was an ex-gymnast who became an aerial skier at Mount Buller, Victoria. During her skiing career Marshall won over 40 Wo ...
- world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Anna Segal Anna Segal (born 15 August 1986) is an Australian Olympic Freestyle skiing, freestyle slopestyle, slopestyle skier and two-time world champion. Segal won the gold medal for the inaugural Women's Ski Slopestyle at Winter X Games 13 at Buttermilk ...
- Olympic freestyle skier and two-time world champion *
Zali Steggall Zali Steggall (born 16 April 1974) is an Australian politician, lawyer and former Olympic athlete. She has been independent member for Warringah since the 2019 Australian federal election when she defeated the incumbent, former Prime Minister ...
- Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Soccer

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Melissa Barbieri Melissa Anne Barbieri (born 20 February 1980) is an Australian international football goalkeeper who plays for Melbourne City in the A-League Women. She earned over 86 caps with the Australia women's national soccer team and competed at four ...
- former Australian captain *
Ashley Brown Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982) is an American singer and actress who is best known for playing the titular character in the United States national tour and Broadway productions of ''Mary Poppins''. Early life Brown was born February 3, 198 ...
- player for Melbourne Victory *
Sam Kerr Samantha May Kerr (born 10 September 1993) is an Australian professional football player who plays as a forward for Chelsea in the FA Women's Super League and the Australia women's national team (the ''Matildas''), which she has captained si ...
– current Australia captain; all-time leading goal scorer for the W-League and the US
National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system. It is owned by the teams and, until 2020, was under a management contract with the United States Soccer Federatio ...
; two-time NWSL MVP *
Melissa Maizels Melissa Maizels (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian soccer goalkeeper who last played for Australian A-League Women team Melbourne Victory. She previously played for Perth Glory and Canberra United. Early life Maizels was born in Melbourn ...
(born 1993) - footballer *
Julie Murray Julie Elizabeth Murray (born 28 April 1970) is an Australian soccer player who appeared in 68 international matches for the Australia women's national association football team during a 13-year international career. She played professional cl ...
- early professional pioneer *
Ellyse Perry Ellyse Alexandra Perry (born 3 November 1990) is an Australian sportswoman who has represented her country in cricket and association football. Having debuted for both the national cricket team and the national soccer team at the age of 16, s ...
- dual international cricket and football *
Cheryl Salisbury Cheryl Ann Salisbury (born 8 March 1974) is a former association football player who represented Australia internationally as a defender from 1994 until 2009, winning 151 caps. Biography She most recently played as a defender for the New Yor ...
- former Australian captain *
Kyah Simon Kyah Pam Simon (born 25 June 1991) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Tottenham Hotspur of the FA Women's Super League. In 2011, Simon became the first Indigenous Australian player to score a goal in a FIFA ...
- first Aboriginal Australian footballer to score a goal at a World Cup final *
Sarah Walsh Sarah Ann Walsh (born 11 January 1983) is a retired Australian soccer player who most recently captained Western Sydney Wanderers FC in Australia's W-League. She is a former member of the Australia women's national soccer team, the Matildas. ...


Softball

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Joyce Lester Jocelyn "Joyce" Mavis Lester, OAM (born 22 March 1958) is an Australian softball player and coach. A catcher and outfielder, she joined the Australia women's national softball team in 1977, and captained it from 1985 until its bronze med ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Marjorie Nelson Marjorie Nelson (November 2, 1923 – February 12, 2010) was an American actress. Born in Seattle, Nelson appeared in more than eight films from 1965 to 2004 and acted on stage at the Seattle Repertory Theatre beginning in 1940. She acted on sta ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Squash

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Vicki Cardwell Vicki Cardwell BEM (née Hoffmann, born 21 April 1955, in Adelaide, South Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player from Australia. She was one of the leading players on the international squash circuit from the late-1970s through to t ...
- multiple British Open and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Sarah Fitz-Gerald Sarah Elizabeth Fitz-Gerald AM (born 1 December 1968) is an Australian women's squash player who won five World Open titles – 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2002. She ranks alongside Janet Morgan, Nicol David, Susan Devoy, Michelle Martin and ...
- multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Michelle Martin Michelle Susan Martin, OAM (born 29 April 1967) is an Australian former professional squash player who was one of the game's leading players in the 1990s. She was ranked number one in the world from 1993 to 1996 and again in 1998 and 1999, an ...
- multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Heather McKay Heather Pamela McKay (née Blundell) (born 31 July 1941) is a retired Australian squash player, who is considered by many to be the greatest female player in the history of the game, and possibly also Australia's greatest-ever sportswoman. Sh ...
- multiple British Open and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Surf life saving

* Reen Corbett - former Australian champion * Karla Gilbert - former Australian champion


Surfing

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Layne Beachley Layne Collette Beachley (born 24 May 1972) is a former professional surfer from Manly, New South Wales. She won the World Championship seven times. Currently she is the chair of Surfing Australia. Surfing career At the age of 16 Beachley ...
- multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Wendy Botha Wendy Botha (born 22 August 1965) is a four-time world surfing champion. She won her first title as a South African citizen in 1987, then she became an Australian citizen and won three more titles in 1989, 1991, and 1992. She also posed nude f ...
- multiple world champion *
Pam Burridge Pam Burridge (born 1965) is an Australian surfer and one of the pioneers of women’s surfing in Australia. Born in Sydney, she entered her first surfing competition in 1977, proceeding to win various regional and national titles in the follow ...
- world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Stephanie Gilmore Stephanie Louise Gilmore (29 January 1988) is an Australian professional surfer and eight-time world champion on the Women's WSL World Tour (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2022). Career Gilmore's life as a surfer began at age 9 wh ...
- multiple world champion


Swimming

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Cate Campbell Cate Natalie Campbell, (born 20 May 1992) is a Malawian-born Australian competitive swimming (sport), swimmer, and a current multiple world record holder, who won two bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, a gold medal at the 2012 Summer O ...
– multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships *
Melissa Carlton Melissa Paula Carlton, OAM (born 8 May 1978) is a South African-born Australian swimmer. Born with no right leg and short fingers on her left hand, she won gold, silver and bronze medals for Australia at both the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Ellie Cole Ellie Victoria Cole, (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progresse ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Priya Cooper Priya Naree Cooper, (born 2 October 1974) is an Australian world champion disabled swimmer, winning nine Paralympic gold medals as well as world records and world championships. She competed in the Australian swimming team at the 1992, 1996 an ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Alicia Coutts Alicia Jayne Coutts, (born 14 September 1987) is an Australian competitive medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2010 Commonwealth Games (New Delhi). Sh ...
- multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist *
Lorraine Crapp Lorraine Joyce Thurlow, (born 1 October 1938), née Crapp, is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. In world swimming history, Crapp earned a place as the first woman to break the five-minute barrier in the 400 m freestyle ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Anne Currie - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Lisa Curry-Kenny Lisa Gaye Curry AO MBE (born 15 May 1962), also known by her married name Lisa Curry-Kenny, is an Australian former competition swimmer. Curry won seven gold, two silver and one bronze Commonwealth Games medals, and is the only Australian s ...
* Gemma Dashwood - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Clare Dennis Clara "Clare" Dennis (7 March 1916 – 5 June 1971), later known by her married name Clare Golding, was an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1930s who won the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Fanny Durack Sarah Frances "Fanny" Durack (27 October 1889 – 20 March 1956), also known by her married name Fanny Gately, was an Australian competition swimmer. From 1910 until 1918 she was the world's greatest female swimmer across all distances from f ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Elizabeth Edmondson - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Michelle Ford Michelle Jan Ford (born 15 July 1962) is an Australian former long-distance freestyle swimming, freestyle and butterfly swimming, butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle, bronze in the 200-met ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Dawn Fraser Dawn Fraser (born 4 September 1937) is an Australian freestyle champion swimmer and former politician. She is one of only four swimmers to have won the same Olympic individual event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle. ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Tracey Freeman - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Jacqueline Freney Jacqueline Rose "Jacqui" Freney (born 6 June 1992) is an Australian Paralympic swimming, Paralympic swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 London Games, she broke Siobhan Paton's Australian record of six gold medals at a single Games by ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Shane Gould Shane Elizabeth Gould (born 23 November 1956) is an Australian former competition swimmer. She won three gold medals, a silver medal and a bronze, at the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 2018, she won the fifth season of ''Australian Survivor,'' becom ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Jodie Henry Jodie Clare Henry, OAM (born 17 November 1983) is an Australian competitive swimmer, Olympic gold medallist and former world-record holder. Early life and career Henry was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She began swimming competitively at the ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist * Daphne Hilton - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist * Liesel Jones - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist *
Annette Kellerman Annette Marie Sarah Kellermann (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975) was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer. Kellermann was one of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, instead of the then ...
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Ilsa Konrads Ilsa Konrads ( lv, Ilze Konrade; born 29 March 1944) is an Australian former freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. In her career, she set 13 individual ...
- Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Hayley Lewis Hayley (pronounced ) is an English given name. It is derived from the English surname Haley, which in turn was based on an Old English toponym, a compound of ''heg'' "hay" and ''leah'' "clearing or meadow".Katie Martin-Doyle, ''The Treasury of ...
- multiple Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Libby Lenton Lisbeth Constance Trickett, OAM (; born 28 January 1985) is a retired Australian swimmer. She was a gold medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was the world record holder in the shor ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist *
Lyn McClements Lynette Velma McClements (born 11 May 1951), also known by her married name Lyn McKenzie, is an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s who won a gold medal in the 100-metre butterfly at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Com ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Emma McKeon Emma Jennifer McKeon, (born 24 May 1994) is an Australian competitive swimmer. She is a four-time world record holder, one current and three former, in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay. Her total career haul of 11 Olympic medals following the ...
– multiple Olympic Games gold medalist *
Kaylee McKeown Kaylee Rochelle McKeown (born 12 July 2001) is an Australian swimmer and triple Olympic gold medalist. She is a world record holder in the long course 100 metre backstroke and the short course 200 metre backstroke.Hanson, Ian (27 November 20 ...
– multiple Olympic Games gold medalist *
Bonnie Mealing Phillomena Alecia "Bonnie" Mealing (28 July 1912 – 1 January 2002) was an Australian freestyle and backstroke swimmer of the 1920s and 1930s, who won a silver medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the ...
- Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Karen Moras Karen Lynne Moras (born 6 January 1954), also known by her married name Karen Stephenson, is an Australian distance freestyle swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s who won a bronze medal in the 400-metre freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Althoug ...
- multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Gail Neall Gail Neall (born 2 August 1955), also known by her married name Gail Yeo, is an Australian former medley swimmer who raced in the 1970s. She won a gold medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in world record time. ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee * Susan O'Neill - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Siobhan Paton Siobhan Bethany Paton, OAM (born 28 August 1983) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer who was born in Sydney. Paton has had an intellectual disability from birth which was a consequence a lack of oxygen. Paton decided to become a swimmer after ...
- multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist *
Stephanie Rice Stephanie Louise Rice, OAM (born 17 June 1988) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. She won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009. On 9 April 2 ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist *
Jessica Schipper Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM (born 19 November 1986) is an Australian former competition swimmer. Specialising in the 100 and 200 metres butterfly, she won several gold medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships between 2004 and 200 ...
- multiple world champion *
Emily Seebohm Emily Jane Seebohm, OAM (born 5 June 1992) is an Australian swimmer and television personality. She has appeared at four Olympic Games between 2008 and 2021; and won three Olympic gold medals, five world championship gold medals and seven Commo ...
– multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships *
Petria Thomas Petria Ann Thomas, (born 25 August 1975) is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medallist and a winner of 15 national titles. She was born in Lismore, New South Wales, and grew up in the nearby town of Mullumbimby. Career In 1993, at the a ...
- multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Ariarne Titmus Ariarne Elizabeth Titmus, (born 7 September 2000) is an Australian swimmer. She is the reigning Olympic champion in the women's 200-metre and 400-metre freestyle, having won both events at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the world record holder in th ...
– multiple Olympic Games gold medallist *
Beverley Whitfield Beverley Joy Whitfield (15 June 1954 – 20 August 1996) was an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1970s, who won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. She was coached by Terry Gathercole and ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Tracey Wickham Tracey Lee Wickham (born 24 November 1962 in Rosebud, Victoria) is an Australian former middle distance swimmer. Wickham was the World Champion for the 400 m and 800 m freestyle in 1978, and won gold in both events at the 1978 and 1982 Commonwe ...
- multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Mina Wylie Wilhelmina "Mina" Wylie (27 June 1891 – 6 July 1984) was one of Australia's first two female Olympic swimming representatives, along with friend Fanny Durack.Hirst,Warwic"Wylie, Wilhelmina (Mina) (1891–1984)"Australian Dictionary of Biogra ...
- Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


Taekwondo

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Lauren Burns Lauren Chantel Burns, OAM (born 8 June 1974) is an Australian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion.Gordon, H. (c. 2000)Lauren Burns, TaekwondoRetrieved on 26 March 2010. She won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo at the 2 ...
- Olympic Games gold medalist


Tennis

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Ashleigh Barty Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley (given name), Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". It is most common in the United States and United Kingdom. Notable people B *Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian ...
– multiple grand slam champion and two-time year-end world #1 player *
Lesley Bowrey Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey, AM (née Turner; born 16 August 1942) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Her career spanned two decades from the late 1950s until the late 1970s. Turner Bowrey won the singles title at the Fr ...
- multiple grand slam champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Margaret Court Margaret Court (''née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian retired former world No. 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, her 24 maj ...
- multiple grand slam champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Eva Duldig Eva Ruth de Jong-Duldig (nee Duldig; born 11 February 1938) is an Austrian-born Australian and Dutch former tennis player, and current author. From the ages of two to four, she was detained by Australia in an isolated internment camp, as an enemy ...
(born 1938) - Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author *
Evonne Goolagong Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Goolagong was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. At the age of 19, she won the French Open singl ...
- multiple grand slam champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee *
Sam Stosur Samantha Jane Stosur ( ; born 30 March 1984) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in doubles, a ranking which she first achieved on 6 February 2006 and held for 61 consecutive weeks. Also a former top ten s ...
- grand slam champion


Triathlon

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Emma Carney Emma Elizabeth Carney (born 29 July 1971) is an Australian former professional triathlete and two time World Triathlon Champion. She is one of a few triathletes in the world to have won two ITU world titles. She was the world number one triath ...
- world champion * Jackie Gallagher - world champion * Nicole Hackett - world champion *
Loretta Harrop Loretta "Loz" Harrop (born July 17, 1975, in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian triathlete. As a teenager she attended Cavendish Road State High School along with her siblings and as of 2007 has a house named after her. Harr ...
- Olympic Games medalist and world champion *
Michellie Jones Michellie Yvonne Jones ( ; born 6 September 1969) is an Australian triathlete. She has won two ITU Triathlon World Championships, an Olympic silver medal, and the 2006 Ironman World Championship. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paraly ...
- Olympic medalist and world champion * Joanne King - world champion *
Emma Moffatt Emma Moffatt (born 7 September 1984) is a retired Australian professional triathlete. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and won the gold at the ITU Triathlon World Championships in 2009 and in 2010. She was born in ...
- Olympic medalist and world champion *
Emma Snowsill Emma Laura Snowsill OAM (born 15 June 1981) is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. She won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2008 Olympics. Snowsill is marrie ...
- Olympic gold medalist and world champion


Volleyball

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Natalie Cook Natalie Louise Cook (born 19 January 1975) is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. She became the first Australian woman to compete at five Olympic Games. Early life Cook was born in Townsville, Quee ...
- Olympic gold medalist beach volleyball *
Kerri Pottharst Kerri Ann Pottharst OAM (born 25 June 1965) is an Australian former professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. Pottharst was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and currently resides in Sydney. In addition to her previous ...
- Olympic gold medalist beach volleyball


Water polo

* Debbie Watson - Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee


See also

* List of Australian sportsmen


References


External links


Sport Australia Hall of Fame Athlete Members
* List of South Australian sportswomen {{Australia topics