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Betty Cuthbert (bib 468) winning gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Australia has won 83 medals: 22 gold, 29 silver, and 32 bronze medals. [1] Australian women have won 45 medals: 14 gold, 15 silver, and 16 bronze medals; Australia men have won 37 medals: 8 gold, 14 silver, and 15 bronze medals; Number of female athletes winning medals: 34 [2]
Montag represented Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the Women's 20 kilometres walk on 1 August and the Mixed marathon walk relay on 3 August 2024. [25] She won the bronze medal in both events, and was the first Australian woman in 52 years to win two medals in track and field at the same Olympic Games. [26]
In 2012 at the London Games, Melanie anchored the 4×100-metre freestyle relay team to overcome a late surge by the Netherlands to win the gold medal for Australia, the only gold medal for the Australian swimming team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also won two silver medals in the Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay and Women's 4 × 100 ...
Meg Harris, OAM (born 7 March 2002) is an Australian swimmer.She is a world record holder in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay.She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay [1] and also in the 2024 Summer Olympics, having won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay.
Michele (Shelly) Robyn Pearson (born 22 April 1962) is an Australian former medley and freestyle swimmer of the 1980s, who won a bronze medal in the 200-metre individual medley at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Her versatility saw her qualify for four finals.
Glynis Leanne Nunn-Cearns OAM [1] [2] (née Saunders, formerly Nunn; born 4 December 1960) is a former Australian heptathlete, the first Olympic champion in the event. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, she began competing in athletics at age 9, when she was a student at Toowoomba South State School.
Lauren Chantel Burns OAM (born 8 June 1974) is an Australian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion. [1] She won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, competing in the women's under 49 kg class. [2] Burns holds the rank of 3rd dan black belt in taekwondo. [3]
Skinner won Australia's only shooting medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade when she won gold in the trap event. [4] She competed in the women's trap event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she reached the semifinals. She competed in the women's trap event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. [5]