Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...

was represented by Australian Commonwealth Games Association
Australian Commonwealth Games Association
The Australian Commonwealth Games Association is the national body responsible for Commonwealth Games operations, publicity and development in Australia, specifically providing and organising funding, clothing, travel, accommodation and accreditation of athletes and officials to each Commonwealth...

 the (ACGA), and abbreviated AUS. Athletes from Australia were given automatic qualification in all sports due to the host status.

Australia first competed at the then-titled British Empire Games in 1930, and is one of only six countries to have sent athletes to every Commonwealth Games.

Australia entered the Melbourne Games as a strong favourite to win the medal tally after having won 207 medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 Commonwealth Games
The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The XVII Commonwealth Games was the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing London's 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating.After the 1996 Manchester...

 in Manchester compared to England's 165 and Canada's 116. Its strongest sports are swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 and cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...

, Australia was, as expected, at the top of the medal tally with 221 medals: 84 Gold (a new record), 69 Silver and 68 Bronze.

Australia's overall tally of medals
All-time medal tally of Commonwealth Games
This page shows the all-time medal table for the Commonwealth Games. The table is updated as of 14 October 2010, the day the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi ended....

 is 1707 medals: 643 Gold, 556 Silver and 508 Bronze.

Jane Saville
Jane Saville
Jane Kara Saville is an Australian race walker who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She was born in Sydney....

 bore Australia's flag at the opening ceremony whilst Leisel Jones
Leisel Jones
Leisel Marie Jones OAM is an Australian Olympic gold medalist 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 × 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004 and a gold...

 bore the flag during the closing ceremony.

Gold

  • Ben Turner Weightlifting Men's 69kg
  • Alex Karepyten Weightlifting Men's 94kg
  • Deborah Lovely Weightlifting Women's 75kg
  • Chris Rae Weightlifting Men's 105+kg
  • Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Marie Grinham is a professional squash player. During her career, she has won three Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, and finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open. She reached the World No. 2 ranking in 2007. She represented Australia in international squash...

     Squash Women's Singles
  • Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Marie Grinham is a professional squash player. During her career, she has won three Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, and finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open. She reached the World No. 2 ranking in 2007. She represented Australia in international squash...

     & Rachael Grinham
    Rachael Grinham
    Rachael Margaret Grinham is a professional squash player from Australia. She won the World Open in 2007, and the British Open in 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009. She reached the World No...

     Squash Women's doubles
  • Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Marie Grinham is a professional squash player. During her career, she has won three Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, and finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open. She reached the World No. 2 ranking in 2007. She represented Australia in international squash...

     & Joe Kneipp
    Joe Kneipp
    Joseph Kneipp is a professional squash player from Australia.Kneipp was born in Brisbane and grew up near Cairns. He began playing squash at the age of seven. As a junior, he won the Australian under-13 squash championship title. At the age of 14, he attended the Australian Institute of Sport for...

     Squash Mixed doubles
  • Australian women's basketball team
  • John Steffensen
    John Steffensen
    John William Steffensen is an Australian athlete, who specialises in 200 and 400 metres. His personal bests are 20.79 and 44.73....

      Men's 400 m
  • Stephanie Rice
    Stephanie Rice
    Stephanie Louise Rice OAM is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 400 m women's individual medley, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club in Brisbane...

      Women's 200 m Individual Medley
  • Anna Meares
    Anna Meares
    Anna Maree Meares, OAM is an Australian track cyclist.She has been the 500m TT world champion twice, and a gold medalist at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.-Biography:...

      Women's 500 m Time Trial
  • Ben Kersten
    Ben Kersten
    Ben Kersten is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He is a member of the Fly V Australia Pro Cycling Team....

      Men's 1 km Time Trial
  • David Moore and Daniel Repacholi
    Daniel Repacholi
    Daniel Repacholi is an Australian sports shooter who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He also won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.-References:*...

      Men's 50 m Pistol Pairs
  • Leisel Jones
    Leisel Jones
    Leisel Marie Jones OAM is an Australian Olympic gold medalist 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 × 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004 and a gold...

      Women's 50 m Breaststroke
    Breaststroke
    The breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on his or her chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to its stability and the ability to keep the head out of the water a large portion of the time. In most swimming classes, beginners learn...

  • Danni Miatke
    Danni Miatke
    -Biography:Born in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1987, Miatke began competitive swimming in 1995. She first represented the Northern Territory in 1998 at the national School Sport Swimming and Diving Championships. She first won gold for the Territory in 1999 at the Australian Age Championships, in...

      Women's 50 m Butterfly
    Butterfly stroke
    The butterfly is a swimming stroke swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously. The butterfly kick was developed separately, and is also known as the "dolphin kick"...

  • Ryan Bayley
    Ryan Bayley
    Ryan Neville Bayley OAM is a professional track cyclist.-Biography:Born in Perth, Western Australia, Bayley started competitive cycling in 1997 at fifteen years of age...

      Men's Keirin
    Keirin
    is a track cycling event in which racing cyclists sprint for victory. Keirin originated in Japan in 1948; the first Olympic competitions in the sport occurred in 2000....

  • Katherine Bates
    Katherine Bates
    Katherine Bates is an Australian track and road cyclist. A multiple national champion, Bates has been riding as a professional since 2002. In 2007, she became the World Points Race Champion on the track...

      Women's 25 km Points Race
  • Australia Women's Gymnastics Team
  • Australia Women's Trap Pairs
  • Adam Vella and Michael Diamond
    Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
    Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...

      Men's Trap Pairs
  • Sean Finning  Men's 40 km Points Race
  • Emma Snowsill
    Emma Snowsill
    Emma Laura Snowsill OAM is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games...

      Women's Triathlon
  • Bradley Kahlefeldt
    Bradley Kahlefeldt
    Bradley Kahlefeldt is an Australian triathlete born in Temora, NSW. Kahlefeldt has lived in the city of Wagga Wagga since 1982. Brad now splits his time between the Gold Coast and France during the European summer. He won the gold medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games Triathlon...

      Men's Triathlon
  • Matthew Cowdrey
    Matthew Cowdrey
    Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...

      Men's 50 m EAD Freestyle
  • Libby Lenton
    Libby Lenton
    Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett OAM is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She was a gold medallist at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course 100 metres freestyle...

      Women's 100 m Freestyle
  • Australia Women's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay
  • Ryan Bayley
    Ryan Bayley
    Ryan Neville Bayley OAM is a professional track cyclist.-Biography:Born in Perth, Western Australia, Bayley started competitive cycling in 1997 at fifteen years of age...

      Men's Sprint
  • Joshua Jefferis
    Joshua Jefferis
    Joshua Jefferis is an Australian artistic gymnast.He attended Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane.-External links:...

      Gymnastics Men's All-Around
  • Chloe Sims
    Chloe Sims
    Chloe Leigh Sims is an Australian gymnast. She was born in Queensland, Australia and trains at the Moreton Bay College centre of excellence. She is a national team member and double Commonwealth champion....

      Gymnastics Women's All-Around
  • Ben Turner  Weightlifting Men's 69 kg
  • Kerryn McCann
    Kerryn McCann
    Kerryn McCann was an Australian athlete. She was best known for winning the marathon at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.-Personal life:McCann was born Kerryn Hindmarsh in Bulli, New South Wales, in 1967....

     Women's marathon
  • Russell Mark
    Russell Mark
    Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

     and Craig Trembath Men's double trap pairs
  • Women's 10 m air pistol pairs
  • Matthew Cowdrey
    Matthew Cowdrey
    Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...

      Men's 100 m EAD Freestyle
  • Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay
  • Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay
  • Australia Mark Casey, Bill Cornehls and Wayne Turley Men's Triples Lawn Bowls
  • Kelvin Kerkow
    Kelvin Kerkow
    Kelvin Kerkow is an Australian lawn bowls player and author. He is currently ranked 11th in the World Bowls Tour 2009-2010....

      Men's Singles Lawn Bowls

  • Hollie Dykes
    Hollie Dykes
    Hollie Johnston Dykes is a retired Australian gymnast who was born in Gold Coast, Queensland and began gymnastics at the age of four and a half. She started training at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1998 and was awarded a full scholarship there in 2000...

     Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise

Silver

  • Simon Heffernan Weightlifting Men's 94kg
  • Damon Kelly Weightlifting Men's 105+kg
  • David Palmer
    David Palmer (squash player)
    David Palmer is a professional squash player from Australia. He won the Super Series finals in 2002, the World Open in 2002 and 2006; the British Open in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008; and the Australian Open in 2008. He attained World No...

     Men's Squash Singles
  • Rachel Grinham Women's Squash Singles
  • Stewart Boswell
    Stewart Boswell
    Stewart Boswell is a professional squash player from Australia.-Career Overview:...

     & Anthony Ricketts
    Anthony Ricketts
    Anthony Ricketts is a former professional squash player from Australia.Ricketts won the British Open in 2005, beating James Willstrop in the final 11-7, 11-9, 11-7...

     Squash Men's Doubles
  • Hollie Dykes Women's Gymnastics Balance Beam
  • Ashleigh Brennan Women's Gymnastics Floor Exercise
  • Libby Lenton
    Libby Lenton
    Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett OAM is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She was a gold medallist at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course 100 metres freestyle...

      Women's 200 m Freestyle
  • Travis Nederpelt
    Travis Nederpelt
    Travis Nederpelt is a swimmer from Western Australia. A butterfly specialist, he represented his country in the 2004 Olympic Games at Athens and in 2008 at Beijing...

     Men's 200 m Butterfly
  • Brooke Hanson
    Brooke Hanson
    Brooke Louise Hanson OAM is a former 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...

      Women's 200 m Individual Medley
  • Australia Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
  • Australia Men's Team Arsistic
  • Australia Women's 25 m Pistol Pairs
  • Jessicah Schipper
    Jessicah Schipper
    Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM is an Australian swimmer. She trained at the Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton club in Brisbane, under veteran coach Ken Wood up until the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Schipper now trains under the guidance of Stephan Widmer with the Commercial Swimming Club...

     Women's 50 m Butterfly
  • Jade Edmistone
    Jade Edmistone
    Jade Edmistone is an Australian breaststroke swimmer, who is the former world-record holder in the 50 m breaststroke at both short and long course formats of the event. She is coached by Stephan Widmar at the Commercial Swim Club in Brisbane...

      Women's 50 m Breaststroke
  • Rochelle Gilmore
    Rochelle Gilmore
    Rochelle Gilmore is an Australian racing cyclist currently living in Italy. Gilmore currently rides for the Italian cycling team Menikini Selle Italia Gysko....

     Women's Points Rac

Panai women's points

Bronze

  • Erika Yamasaki Weightlifting Women's 48 kg
  • Nadeene Latif  Weightlifting Women's 53kg
  • Natasha Barker  Weightlifting Women's 58kg
  • David Palmer
    David Palmer (squash player)
    David Palmer is a professional squash player from Australia. He won the Super Series finals in 2002, the World Open in 2002 and 2006; the British Open in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008; and the Australian Open in 2008. He attained World No...

     & Dan Jenson
    Dan Jenson
    Dan Jenson is a professional squash player from Australia. He joined the professional tour in 1993, and reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in 1999...

     Squash Men's Doubles
  • David Palmer
    David Palmer (squash player)
    David Palmer is a professional squash player from Australia. He won the Super Series finals in 2002, the World Open in 2002 and 2006; the British Open in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008; and the Australian Open in 2008. He attained World No...

     & Rachael Grinham
    Rachael Grinham
    Rachael Margaret Grinham is a professional squash player from Australia. She won the World Open in 2007, and the British Open in 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009. She reached the World No...

     Squash Mixed doubles
  • Joshua Krogh  Men's 200 m Butterfly
  • Lara Carroll
    Lara Carroll
    Lara Carroll is an Australian swimmer living in Perth, Australia.She attended Leeming Senior High School in the Suburb of Leeming....

      Women's 200 m Individual Medlay
  • Kerry Meares  Women's 500 m Time Trial
  • Alice Mills
    Alice Mills
    Alice Mary Mills OAM is an Australian sprint freestyle, butterfly and individual medley swimmer who represented Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics, winning two relay gold medals....

      Women's 50 m Butterfly
  • Tarnee White
    Tarnee White
    Tarnee Renee White OAM is an Australian breaststroke swimmer, who won a silver medal in the 4x100m medley relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics....

      Women's 50 m Breaststroke
  • Annabelle Williams
    Annabelle Williams
    Annabelle Williams is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9 event. She was born in 21 July 1988.-References:...

     Women's 50 m freestyle EAD
  • Hollie Dykes
    Hollie Dykes
    Hollie Johnston Dykes is a retired Australian gymnast who was born in Gold Coast, Queensland and began gymnastics at the age of four and a half. She started training at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1998 and was awarded a full scholarship there in 2000...

      Women's Gymnastics All-Around
  • Naomi Russell
    Naomi Russell
    Naomi Rebecca Russell is an Australian gymnast.Russell represented Australia in the 2006 Commonwealth Games...

      Women's Gymnastics Vault
  • Monette Russo
    Monette Russo
    Monette Simone Russo is an Australian Artistic Gymnast. She made Australian history by becoming the first Australian gymnast ever to win an individual World Championship medal at the 2005 Melbourne Artistic Gymnastics World Championships when she came third in the all-around competition...

      Women's Gymnastics Uneven Bars

Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 

  • Ben Austin
  • Bronte Barratt
  • Sam Bramham
  • Leith Brodie
  • Ash Callus
  • Lara Carroll
  • Lichelle Clarke
  • Matthew Cowdrey
  • Sophie Edington
  • Jade Edmistone
  • Joanna Fargus
  • Nicholas Ffrost
  • Sally Foster
  • Felicity Galvez
  • Melissa Gorman
  • Brooke Hanson
  • Alex Harris
  • Brett Hawke
  • Jodie Henry
  • Leisel Jones
  • Michael Klim
  • Joshua Krogh
  • Andrew Lauterstein
  • Lisbeth Lenton
  • Katrina Lewis
  • Linda Mackenzie
  • Andrew Mewing
  • Danni Miatke
  • Alice Mills
  • Kenrick Monk
  • Travis Nederpelt
  • Kylie Palmer
  • Sarah Paton
  • Adam Pine
  • Jim Piper
  • Shayne Reese
  • Jennifer Reilly
  • Stephanie Rice
  • Andrew Richards
  • Brenton Rickard
  • Giaan Rooney
  • Jessicah Schipper
  • Caroline South
  • Christian Sprenger
  • Craig Stevens
  • Kelly Stubbins
  • Eamon Sullivan
  • Matthew Targett
  • Ian Thorpe
  • Prue Watt
  • Matt Welsh
  • Tarnee White
  • Annabelle Williams
  • Tayliah Zimmer

Synchronised Swimming 

  • Irena Olevsky (Vic) – Solo
  • Irena Olevsky (Vic) – Duet
  • Dannielle Liesch (Vic) – Duet
  • Luda Plotnikova (Vic) – Reserve

Diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

 

  • Loudy Tourky
    Loudy Tourky
    Loudy Wiggins is an Australian diver.She was born in Haifa, Israel and is of a Palestinian background. She was born to Butros and Afaf Tourky. They came to Australia when Loudy was three. Loudy has commented, "I will always have a bond with Palestine...

  • Matthew Mitcham
    Matthew Mitcham
    Matthew Mitcham, is an Australian diver. He is the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10 m platform, having received the highest single-dive score in Olympic history...

  • Sharlene Stratton
  • Scott Robertson
    Scott Robertson (diver)
    Scott Robertson is an Australian diver. He has been named Male Diver of the Year at the 2007 Australian Open Diving Championships and has placed in the top ten of several international events.-References:...


Athletics

  • Steven Hooker – Pole Vault
  • Fabrice Lapierre – Long Jump
  • Dani Samuels – Discus
  • John Steffensen – Men's 400 m

Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 

Men's
  • Ashley Brehaut
    Ashley Brehaut
    Ashley Brehaut is a male badminton player from Australia. His coach is Ning On Sze, and he lives in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia....

     (Vic)
  • Stuart Brehaut
    Stuart Brehaut
    Stuart Brehaut is a badminton player from Australia.Brehaut played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing comprehensively in the first round to Lee Hyun-il of Korea 15-3 15-2....

     (Vic)
  • Travis Denney (WA)
  • Ross Smith (Vic)
  • Glenn Warfe (Vic)


Women's
  • Erin Carroll
    Erin Carroll
    Erin Carroll is an Australian badminton player from Ballarat, Victoria.- Career :Erin's career started internationally as she competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne...

     (Vic)
  • Foong Meng Cheah (Vic)
  • Kellie Lucas (Vic)
  • Tania Luiz (Vic)

Men's Team Competition

  • C.J. Bruton 
  • Bradley Davidson 
  • Russell Hinder
    Russell Hinder
    Russell Hinder is an Australian basketball player currently playing in the NBL for the Townsville Crocodiles.Russell went to the University of San Francisco before transferring to Augusta State University....

     
  • Jacob Holmes
    Jacob Holmes
    Jacob Holmes is an Australian professional basketball player who plays for the Townsville Crocodiles in the Australian National Basketball League. He has been playing for Sturt in the Australian Basketball Association in the NBL off-season. He won the Central ABL's Woollacott Medal for Best &...

     
  • Luke Kendall
    Luke Kendall
    Luke Kendall is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for the Gold Coast Blaze in the National Basketball League. He plays in the ABA for the Nunawading Spectres.-Professional career:...

     
  • Sam MacKinnon
    Sam Mackinnon
    Samuel Mackinnon is a retired Australian professional basketball player whose last team was the NBL team Melbourne Tigers.-Playing career:...

     
  • Neil Mottram 
  • Brad Newley
    Brad Newley
    Brad Newley is an Australian professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 7 in tall small forward that can also play at the shooting guard position...

  • Paul Rogers
    Paul Rogers (basketball)
    Paul Andrew Rogers is a retired Australian basketball player who played in the National Basketball League...

     
  • Anthony Ronaldson 
  • Jason Smith 
  • Mark Worthington
    Mark Worthington
    Mark Worthington is an Australian professional basketball player. He was named the NBL rookie of the year in 2006 and won gold with the Australian basketball team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games....


Women's Team Competition

  • Tully Bevilaqua
    Tully Bevilaqua
    Tully Louise Bevilaqua is an Australian professional women's basketball player. She currently plays for the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA and the West Coast Waves in Australia's WNBL....

     
  • Jae Cross 
  • Hollie Grima
    Hollie Grima
    Hollie Grima is an Australian women's basketball player. She is 190 cm tall, weighs 84 kg and plays in the Centre position. She was named the WNBL MVP during the 2006-07 season playing for the Bulleen Boomers. During the 2007/08 season she played offshore in the Italian Serie A League suiting...

     
  • Jacinta Hamilton 
  • Katrina Hibbert 
  • Lauren Jackson
    Lauren Jackson
    Lauren Elizabeth Jackson is an Australian professional basketball player. Jackson began her professional career at the Australian Institute of Sport in the WNBL before moving on to the Canberra Capitals. She is currently a forward/centre with the Seattle Storm of the WNBA and the Australian...

     
  • Emily McInerny 
  • Erin Phillips
    Erin Phillips
    Erin Victoria Phillips is an Australian professional women's basketball player. In the United States, she currently plays for the Indiana Fever in the Women's National Basketball Association and for Adelaide Lightning in the Women's National Basketball League .-Personal:Phillips is the daughter...

     
  • Belinda Snell
    Belinda Snell
    Belinda Snell is an Australian women's basketball player who plays for Australia and the WNBA in the United States....

     
  • Laura Summerton
    Laura Summerton
    Laura Summerton is an Australian professional basketball player. She is 1.88 m tall, weighs 75.7 kg and plays at the forward position. Summerton played for the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA during the 2005 and 2006 seasons, and has played for the Adelaide Lightning in Australia's WNBL...

  • Jenny Whittle 
  • Carly Wilson

Boxing
Boxing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Boxing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. It was one of the male-only sports at the Commonwealth Games, the other being Rugby Sevens.- Boxing medal count :-Flyweight 51 kg:-Semifinal Bout 194:...

 

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
  • Emmanuel Fernando 


Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
  • Bradley Hore
    Bradley Hore
    Bradley Arthur Hore is a retired male flyweight boxer from Australia. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's flyweight division by USA's Ronald Siler .-References:*...

     


Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
  • Nathan Di Carlo


Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
  • Luke Jackson 


Men's Light Welterweight (– 64 kg)
  • Todd Kidd
    Todd Kidd
    Todd Alan Kidd is an Australian amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at light welterweight.-Career:...

     


Men's Welterweight (– 69 kg)
  • Gerard O'Mahony
    Gerard O'Mahony
    Gerard 'Ged' Anthony O'Mahony is an Australian pro boxer best known for competing in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008.-Amateur:...

     


Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
  • Jarrod Fletcher
    Jarrod Fletcher
    Jarrod Fletcher is an Australian Boxer who won the Commonwealth Games 2006 at Middleweight.- BIOGRAPHY :Jarrod was born in Moe, Victoria on the 20th of October, 1983 & moved with his family to Hervey Bay, Queensland in 1990....



Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
  • Ben McEachran


Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)
  • Bradley Pitt 


Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)
  • Steven Rudic
    Steven Rudic
    Steve Rudic is an Australian boxer best known for winning the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games 2006 in the men's super heavyweight division....


Men's Competition

  • Ryan Bayley
    Ryan Bayley
    Ryan Neville Bayley OAM is a professional track cyclist.-Biography:Born in Perth, Western Australia, Bayley started competitive cycling in 1997 at fifteen years of age...

     
  • Allan Davis
    Allan Davis
    Allan Howard Davis is an Australian professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team . Born in Ipswich, Queensland, Davis resides in Bundaberg, Queensland and in Spain. Known for his sprinting ability, he started competitive cycling at the age of 10, and turned professional in 2002...

     
  • Peter Dawson
    Peter Dawson (cyclist)
    Peter Dawson is an Australian professional racing cyclist.-Career highlights:2002Peter Dawson is an Australian professional racing cyclist.-Career highlights:2002...

     
  • Ben Day
    Benjamin Day (cyclist)
    Benjamin John Day is an Australian professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI Continental team Pegasus Sports.- Major results :2002200320042005...

     
  • Sean Finning 
  • Joshua Fleming 
  • Matthew Goss
    Matthew Goss
    Matthew Harley Goss is an Australian professional road and track racing cyclist, currently riding for the UCI ProTour outfit .-Career:Goss started in the business with track cycling...

     
  • Mathew Hayman
    Mathew Hayman
    Mathew Hayman is an Australian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . Hayman is an experienced and respected domestique, as he typically takes on a supporting role within his team.-Palmares:1996...

     
  • Ashley Hutchinson 
  • Mark Jamieson
    Mark Jamieson
    Mark Ian Jamieson is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He started competing at the age of 10 in 1994, he first represented his country in the World Junior Track Championships in 2001...

     
  • Chris Jongewaard
  • Shane Kelly
    Shane Kelly
    Shane John Kelly OAM is a former professional Australian track racing cyclist. Kelly specialized in the men's 1000 m time trial, commonly known as the Kilo. Kelly announced his retirement from international competition at the end of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics...

     
  • Aaron Kemps
    Aaron Kemps
    Aaron Kemps is an Australian racing cyclist.- Palmarès :20012003...

     
  • Ben Kersten
    Ben Kersten
    Ben Kersten is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He is a member of the Fly V Australia Pro Cycling Team....

     
  • Josiah Ng
    Josiah Ng
    Josiah Ng Onn Lam is a Malaysian track cyclist. He competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was also the 2004 Malaysian Olympian and Sportsman of the Year after participating in the 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2008, he won the Melbourne Cup on Wheels at the HiSense Arena in Melbourne...

     
  • Nathan O'Neill
    Nathan O'Neill
    Nathan O'Neill is a former Australian professional road racing cyclist.- Career :O'Neill was born in Sydney in 1974. He began cycling in 1989, when he attended a 16 kilometre handicap race before school, following the suggestion by a friend. The race started at 6am and O'Neill won it...

     
  • Shane Perkins
    Shane Perkins
    -Biography:Perkins was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Daryl Perkins. As a youngster, Perkins played cricket, football and basketball. He played basketball at a very high level aged 7 to 14, but did not enjoy it enough to continue...

     
  • Sid Taberlay
    Sid Taberlay
    Sid Taberlay is a professional mountain biker. After training in 2000, he finished third in the U23 National Championships and was selected for the National Team for the U23 World Championships in Spain. Taberley finished in the top 10, qualifying him for a spot in the 2004 Olympics in Athens...

     
  • William Walker
    William Walker (cyclist)
    William Walker is an Australian professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTour team .Will Walker will not ride for Fuji-Servetto in 2010 due to health issues.- Palmares :20032004...

     
  • Stephen Wooldridge
    Stephen Wooldridge
    Stephen Wooldridge is an Australian racing cyclist, an Olympic and four-time world champion on the track.- Palmarès :2002...


Women's Competition

  • Katherine Bates
    Katherine Bates
    Katherine Bates is an Australian track and road cyclist. A multiple national champion, Bates has been riding as a professional since 2002. In 2007, she became the World Points Race Champion on the track...

  • Natalie Bates 
  • Claire Baxter
    Claire Baxter
    Claire Baxter was a professional racing cyclist, competing in both road and mountain bike racing events. She retired in late 2006 after competing in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.-2006 Commonwealth Games:...

     
  • Sara Carrigan
    Sara Carrigan
    Sara Carrigan OAM 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....

     
  • Emma Colson 
  • Rochelle Gilmore
    Rochelle Gilmore
    Rochelle Gilmore is an Australian racing cyclist currently living in Italy. Gilmore currently rides for the Italian cycling team Menikini Selle Italia Gysko....

     
  • Olivia Gollan 
  • Katie Mactier
    Katie Mactier
    Katie Mactier is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She began racing in 1999 at 24. She was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.She is a member of the Caulfield Carnegie cycling club...

     
  • Anna Meares
    Anna Meares
    Anna Maree Meares, OAM is an Australian track cyclist.She has been the 500m TT world champion twice, and a gold medalist at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.-Biography:...

     
  • Kerrie Meares
    Kerrie Meares
    Kerrie Meares is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She is the older sister of Anna Meares. She was a contender for the 2004 Olympic team, but pulled out from competition due to nagging injuries, suffered during numerous crashes that occurred during competitions earlier that year.-Career...

     
  • Alexis Rhodes 
  • Dellys Starr 
  • Kathy Watt
    Kathy Watt
    Kathryn Ann Watt is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain ....

     
  • Oenone Wood
    Oenone Wood
    Oenone Wood, born on 24 September 1980 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is a retired professional cyclist, who commenced her cycling career in 2001 at the age of 21....


Aquatics 

  • Matthew Cowdrey
    Matthew Cowdrey
    Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...

  • Ben Austin
    Ben Austin
    Benjamin James Austin OAM is an Elite Athlete with a Disability swimmer for Australia. His classification is S8 .-Personal:...

  • Sam Bramham
    Sam Bramham
    Sam Bramham OAM is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and 2008 Summer Paralympics. Between those two games, he won two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal.-Personal:...

  • Alex Harris
    Alex Harris
    Alex James Harris was an Australian Paralympic swimmer, who represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens....

  • Katrina Lewis
  • Annabelle Williams
    Annabelle Williams
    Annabelle Williams is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9 event. She was born in 21 July 1988.-References:...

  • Prudence Watt
  • Lichelle Clarke
    Lichelle Clarke
    Lichelle Clarke is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S8 event and a bronze medal in the Women's 4x100 m Freestyle 34 pts event. She was born on 26 February 1986.-References:...


Gymnastics

Rhythmic
  • Naazmi Johnston
    Naazmi Johnston
    'Naazmi Johnston is an Australian rhythmic gymnast that represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics as well as the 2006 Commonwealth Games.-Career:...

    , Qld
  • Amy Khera, Vic
  • Kimberley Mason, NSW


Women's Artistic
  • Ashleigh Brennan
    Ashleigh Brennan
    Ashleigh Jade Brennan is an Australian gymnast who is currently on the Australia Gymnastics Artistic Women's National Team. Brennan participated in the 2006 Commonwealth Games where she won an individual silver medal in the Women's Gymnastics floor exercise and a team gold medal...

    , Vic
  • Hollie Dykes
    Hollie Dykes
    Hollie Johnston Dykes is a retired Australian gymnast who was born in Gold Coast, Queensland and began gymnastics at the age of four and a half. She started training at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1998 and was awarded a full scholarship there in 2000...

    , Qld
  • Chloe Sims
    Chloe Sims
    Chloe Leigh Sims is an Australian gymnast. She was born in Queensland, Australia and trains at the Moreton Bay College centre of excellence. She is a national team member and double Commonwealth champion....

    , Qld
  • Naomi Russell
    Naomi Russell
    Naomi Rebecca Russell is an Australian gymnast.Russell represented Australia in the 2006 Commonwealth Games...

    , Qld
  • Monette Russo
    Monette Russo
    Monette Simone Russo is an Australian Artistic Gymnast. She made Australian history by becoming the first Australian gymnast ever to win an individual World Championship medal at the 2005 Melbourne Artistic Gymnastics World Championships when she came third in the all-around competition...

    , Vic


Men's Artistic
  • Damian Istria
    Damian Istria
    Damian Istria is an Australian artistic gymnast who was commemorated on Australian postage stamps following his gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.Damian is nowadays an acrobat at Cirque du Soleil-External links:...

    , Qld
  • Josh Jefferis, Qld
  • Sam Offord, SA
  • Philippe Rizzo
    Philippe Rizzo
    Philippe Rizzo Philippe Rizzo Philippe Rizzo (born 9 February 1981 in Sydney, is an Australian gymnast. He became the first Australian to win a medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships when he won silver on the horizontal bar in Ghent in 2001. He is also the first Australian to win a...

    , NSW
  • Prashanth Sellathurai
    Prashanth Sellathurai
    Prashanth Sellathurai is an Australian gymnast. His Tamil parents migrated to Australia in 1983 from Sri Lanka.He was part of the Australian men's squad which won its first team gold medal in Commonwealth Games at the 2010 event in New Delhi, which was sealed by his performance on the rings...

    , NSW

Men's Team

  • Jamie Dwyer
    Jamie Dwyer
    Jamie Dwyer OAM is a field hockey striker from Australia. He wears the number 1 jersey for his country....

  • Liam de Young
    Liam De Young
    Liam de Young OAM is a field hockey defender from Australia.-External links:*...

  • Michael McCann
  • Robert Hammond
    Robert Hammond
    Robert Hammond OAM is a field hockey midfielder from Australia.-External links:* *...

  • Nathan Eglington
    Nathan Eglington
    Nathan Eglington OAM is a field hockey midfielder and striker from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....

  • Mark Knowles
  • Luke Doerner
    Luke Doerner
    Luke Doerner is a field hockey defender from Australia.-External links:* * *...

  • Grant Schubert
    Grant Schubert
    Grant Schubert OAM is a field hockey striker from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

  • Bevan George
    Bevan George
    Bevan George is a retired field hockey defender from Australia.George won a gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and captained The Kookaburras at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where they won a bronze medal...

  • Stephen Lambert
  • Aaron Hopkins
    Aaron Hopkins
    Aaron Hopkins is a field hockey defender from Australia. He narrowly missed selection in Australia's Olympic Games squads in both 2004 and 2008...

  • Matthew Wells
  • Travis Brooks
    Travis Brooks
    Travis Brooks is a field hockey forward from Australia, who won the gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...

  • Brent Livermore
    Brent Livermore
    Brent James Livermore OAM is a field hockey midfielder from Australia. He was first selected in the Australian team in 1997, and was awarded the Kookaburras player of the year award in 2001. He was also nominated of the FIH player of the year awards in 2002 and 2005...

  • Dean Butler
    Dean Butler (athlete)
    Dean Butler OAM is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....

  • Stephen Mowlam
    Stephen Mowlam
    Stephen Mowlam OAM is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by beating title holders The Netherlands in the final....




Women's Team

  • Toni Cronk
    Toni Cronk
    Toni Maree Cronk is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team in October 2001 in the test series against New Zealand in Melbourne...

  • Suzie Faulkner
    Suzie Faulkner
    Suzanne Margaret Faulkner is a field hockey striker from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team in 2002 during a Six Nations International Tournament...

  • Karen Smith
  • Kim Walker
  • Rebecca Sanders
  • Kate Hollywood
    Kate Hollywood
    Kate Hollywood is an Australian field hockey player who has represented the Australian international team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has also won two Commonwealth Games gold medals, in 2006 and 2010. Domestically, Hollywood plays for the New South Wales Arrows in the Australian Hockey League...

  • Emily Halliday
  • Madonna Blyth
  • Wendy Beattie
  • Nicole Arrold
  • Kobie McGurk
  • Rachel Imison
  • Angie Skirving
    Angie Skirving
    Angela Lambert is an Australian Women's Field Hockey player. She captained the under21 Australian women's field hockey squad before entering the Hockeyroos in 1998...

  • Melanie Twitt
  • Sarah Taylor
    Sarah Taylor (field hockey)
    Sarah Young is a female field hockey midfielder from Australia. She made her debut for the Australian women's national team during the 2001 season...

  • Nikki Hudson

Men

  • Kelvin Kerkow
    Kelvin Kerkow
    Kelvin Kerkow is an Australian lawn bowls player and author. He is currently ranked 11th in the World Bowls Tour 2009-2010....

     (Qld) – Men's Singles
  • Barrie Lester (Vic) – Men's Pairs (lead)
  • Nathan Rice (Qld) – Men's Pairs (skip)
  • Bill Cornehls (Qld) – Men's Triples (lead)
  • Wayne Turley (NSW) – Men's Triples (second)
  • Mark Casey
    Mark Casey
    Mark Casey is a nationally syndicated columnist and social commentator. His commentary and analysis have been featured on , Business Week, and in newspapers throughout the country, from the Baltimore Sun to the Santa Monica Daily Press....

     (Qld) – Men's Triples (skip)

Women

  • Maria Rigby (NSW) – Women's Singles
  • Lynsey Armitage (Qld) – Women's Pairs (Lead)
  • Karen Murphy (NSW) – Women's Pairs (Skip)
  • Noi Tucker (Qld) – Women's Triples (Lead)
  • Roma Dunn (WA) – Women's Triples (Second)
  • Ceriann Davies (Qld) – Women's Triples (Skip)

Rugby Sevens
Rugby sevens
Rugby sevens, also known as seven-a-side or VIIs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, with shorter matches. Rugby sevens is administered by the International Rugby Board , the body responsible for rugby union worldwide...

 

  • Scott Fava
    Scott Fava
    Scott Fava is a retired Australian rugby union footballer.-Super 14:Scott Fava began his Super Rugby career with the Queensland Reds in 1999, playing for three seasons before moving on to the ACT Brumbies...

     (WA)
  • Josh Gamgee (NSW)
  • Matt Giteau
    Matt Giteau
    Matthew Giteau is an Australian rugby union footballer, a former international who now plays for the French Top 14 side Toulon. He attended St Edmund's College, Canberra, which has produced other Wallabies including George Gregan, Matt Henjak and the former rugby league star and now coach Ricky...

     (ACT)
  • Luke Inman (NSW)
  • Chris Latham
    Chris Latham (rugby player)
    Chris Latham is an Australian rugby union player, who played fullback for the Worcester Warriors, following a long career with the Queensland Reds and Australia....

     (Qld)
  • Shawn Mackay
    Shawn Mackay
    Shawn Mackay was an Australian rugby union player with the Canberra based Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. He was the son of former Eastern Suburbs rugby league player John Mackay.-Career:...

     (NSW)
  • Tom McVerry (Qld)
  • Damon Murphy (Qld)
  • Nick Reily (NSW)
  • Cameron Shepherd
    Cameron Shepherd
    Cameron Shepherd is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Western Force in the international Super 14 competition. His usual position is at fullback or wing.-Biography:...

     (WA)
  • Lote Tuqiri (NSW)
  • Brendan Williams
    Brendan Williams
    Brendan Williams is Deputy Commissioner in the Office of the Washington State Insurance Commissioner in Olympia, Washington. He served as a Democrat member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 22nd district from 2005 to 2011....

     (NSW)

Shooting
Shooting
Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman...

 

Men's 50 m Rifle Prone
  • Warren Potent
    Warren Potent
    Warren James Potent is an Australian sport shooter. He won the bronze medal in the 50 metre rifle prone at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He won two of the four competitions during the 2007 World Cup season...

     (NSW)
  • David Clifton (NSW)


Men's 10 m Air Rifle
  • Benjamin Burge (Vic)
  • Matthew Inabinet (ACT)


Men's 50 m Rifle 3 Position
  • Benjamin Burge (Vic)
  • Michael Brown (NSW)


Women's 50 m Rifle Prone
  • Susannah Smith (NSW)
  • Kim Frazer (Vic)


Women's 10 m Air Rifle
  • Susan McCready (Vic)
  • Susannah Smith (NSW)


Women's 50 m Rifle 3 Position
  • Susan McCready (Vic)
  • Susannah Smith (NSW)


Fullbore Rifle Queen's Prize
  • James Corbett (Vic)
  • Bruce Scott (Qld)


Men's 50 m Pistol
  • David Moore (NSW)
  • Daniel Repacholi
    Daniel Repacholi
    Daniel Repacholi is an Australian sports shooter who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He also won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.-References:*...

     (Vic)


Men's 10 m Air Pistol
  • David Moore (NSW)
  • Daniel Repacholi
    Daniel Repacholi
    Daniel Repacholi is an Australian sports shooter who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He also won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.-References:*...

     (Vic)


Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
  • David Chapman (SA)
  • Bruce Favell (Qld)


Men's 25 m Centre Fire Pistol
  • David Moore (NSW)
  • Bob Dowling (NSW)


Men's 25 m Standard Pistol
  • David Moore (NSW)
  • Bruce Quick (Vic)


Women's 25 m Pistol
  • Lalita Yauhleuskaya (Vic)
  • Pamela McKenzie (WA)


Women's 10 m Air Pistol
  • Lalita Yauhleuskaya (Vic)
  • Dina Aspandiyarova (Vic)


Men's Skeet
  • George Barton (NSW)
  • Clive Barton (NSW)


Men's Trap
  • Adam Vella (Vic)
  • Michael Diamond
    Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
    Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...

     (NSW)


Men's Double Trap
  • Russell Mark
    Russell Mark
    Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

     (Vic)
  • Craig Trembath (Vic)


Women's Skeet
  • Lauren Mark (Vic)
  • Natalia Rahman (Vic)


Women's Trap
  • Suzanne Balogh
    Suzanne Balogh
    Suzanne Elspeth Balogh OAM 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...

     (NSW)
  • Deserie Baynes (SA)


Women's Double Trap
  • Susan Trindall (Qld)
  • Suzanne Balogh
    Suzanne Balogh
    Suzanne Elspeth Balogh OAM 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...

     (NSW)

Men

  • David Palmer
    David Palmer (squash player)
    David Palmer is a professional squash player from Australia. He won the Super Series finals in 2002, the World Open in 2002 and 2006; the British Open in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008; and the Australian Open in 2008. He attained World No...

     (NSW)
  • Anthony Ricketts
    Anthony Ricketts
    Anthony Ricketts is a former professional squash player from Australia.Ricketts won the British Open in 2005, beating James Willstrop in the final 11-7, 11-9, 11-7...

      (QLD)
  • Stewart Boswell
    Stewart Boswell
    Stewart Boswell is a professional squash player from Australia.-Career Overview:...

      (ACT)
  • Joe Kneipp
    Joe Kneipp
    Joseph Kneipp is a professional squash player from Australia.Kneipp was born in Brisbane and grew up near Cairns. He began playing squash at the age of seven. As a junior, he won the Australian under-13 squash championship title. At the age of 14, he attended the Australian Institute of Sport for...

      (QLD)
  • Dan Jenson
    Dan Jenson
    Dan Jenson is a professional squash player from Australia. He joined the professional tour in 1993, and reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in 1999...

      (SA)

Women

  • Rachel Grinham (QLD)
  • Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Grinham
    Natalie Marie Grinham is a professional squash player. During her career, she has won three Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, and finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open. She reached the World No. 2 ranking in 2007. She represented Australia in international squash...

     (QLD)
  • Amelia Pittock
    Amelia Pittock
    Amelia Pittock is a professional squash player from Australia.Pittock was born in Mornington, Victoria. In 2006, Pittock finished runner-up in the mixed doubles event at the World Doubles Squash Championships, partnering Cameron Pilley....

     (VIC)
  • Kasey Brown
    Kasey Brown
    Kasey Brown is a professional squash player who represented Australia.Brown was born in Taree, New South Wales. She was the Australian junior champion in 2003 and 2004 and was then the senior champion in 2006 and in the same year, had also won the Australian Open title.Currently a member of the...

      (NSW)
  • Dianne Desira  (VIC)

Men

  • William Henzell
    William Henzell
    William Henzell is a right-handed Australian Table Tennis player. He was born in Adelaide and moved to Sweden at the age of 14. His highest international ranking was 108 in 2010. He has represented Australia many times, including securing Australia's first Commonwealth Games table tennis singles...

     (SA)
  • Trevor Brown (Vic)
  • David Zalcberg
    David Zalcberg
    David Zalcberg is a left-handed Australian table tennis player. He is Jewish.- Table tennis career :...

     (Vic)
  • Brett Clarke (Vic)
  • Russell Lavale (Vic)

Women

  • Jian Fang Lay (Vic)
  • Stephanie Sang (Vic)
  • Miao Miao
    Miao Miao
    Miao Miao is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympic Games. Her best Olympic result was the quarter finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney...

     (Vic)
  • Peri Campbell-Innes (Qld)
  • May Cho (SA)

Men

  • Greg Bennett (NSW)
  • Brad Kahlefeldt (NSW)
  • Peter Robertson
    Peter Robertson (triathlete)
    Peter John Robertson is an Olympic athlete from Australia, who competes in triathlon....

     (WA)

Men

  • Yurik Sarkisian (Vic)
  • Ben Turner (Qld)
  • Joel Wilson (Qld)
  • Simon Heffernan (Vic)
  • Alex Karapetyn (Vic)
  • Valeri Sarava (NSW)
  • Damon Kelly (Qld)
  • Chris Rae (SA)

Officials

  • President: Mr. Sam Coffa AM JP
  • Vice President: Mr. Donald Stockins OAM
  • Vice President: Mrs. Susan Taylor AM
  • Chief Executive Officer: Mr. Perry Crosswhite

Gallery


Image:Australia gold.jpg|
Gold pin badge

Image:Australia silver.jpg|
Silver pin badge

Image:Australia brass.jpg|
Bronze pin badge


See also

  • Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece with 482 competitors, which was the second largest Olympic team. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since 1896...

  • Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics
    Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics
    A total of 433 competitors competed for Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team was Australia's second largest away team after the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, which included a team of 482 competitors...

  • 2006 Commonwealth Games#Missing athletes

External links

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