Western Australian Sports Star of the Year

The Western Australian Sports Star of the Year, currently known as The West Australian

The West Australian

The West Australian is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed Seven West Media . The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication...

ANZ Sports Star of the Year, is an annual award for Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

n sportspeople. It has been running since 1956.

List of winners by year

Year	Winner	Sport
1956	Morna Pearce	Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
1957	Shirley de la Hunty Shirley Strickland Shirley Barbara Strickland AO, MBE , later Shirley de la Hunty, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports.-Family:...	Athletics Athletics (track and field) Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
1958	Herb Elliott Herb Elliott Herbert James "Herb" Elliott AC MBE is a former Australian athlete, one of the world's greatest middle distance runners...	Athletics
1959	Brian Foley Brian Foley For the New York State Senator, see Brian X. Foley.Brian Foley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with West Perth in the WANFL. He occupies a forward pocket in West Perth's official 'Team of the Century'....	Australian rules football Australian rules football Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
1960	Bob Simpson Bob Simpson (cricketer) Robert Baddeley Simpson AO is a former cricketer who played for New South Wales, Western Australia and Australia, captaining the national team from 1963–64 until 1967–68, and again in 1977–78. He later had a highly successful term as the coach of the Australian team...	Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
1961	David Dickson David Dickson (swimmer) David Dickson was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won three bronze medals in freestyle and medley relay events at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rome and Tokyo respectively.-1960 Summer Olympics:Dickson was selected to make his international debut at...	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...
1962	Bob Marshall	Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
	Dixie Willis Dixie Willis Dixie Isabel Willis is a former Australian middle distance runner, who won the gold medal in the women's 880 yards event at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. She was selected to compete over 800 metres for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics...	Athletics
	Haydn Bunton, Jr. Haydn Bunton, Jr. Haydn Austin Bunton was a player and coach of Australian rules football. He became the youngest ever coach in a major league of Australian rules, when he was appointed coach of Norwood Football Club in 1957....	Australian rules football
1963	David Dickson David Dickson (swimmer) David Dickson was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won three bronze medals in freestyle and medley relay events at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rome and Tokyo respectively.-1960 Summer Olympics:Dickson was selected to make his international debut at...	Swimming
	Bob Marshall	Billiards
	Joyce Bennett	Athletics
1964	Graham McKenzie Graham McKenzie Graham Douglas "Garth" McKenzie is a former Australian and Western Australian cricketer. He was a fast bowler. First selected to play for Australia at age of 19, he toured England in 1961 under Richie Benaud...	Cricket
1965	John Ryan John Ryan (swimmer) John Ryan was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics....	Swimming
	Peter Kelly	Cricket
	Bill Walker	Australian rules football
1966	David Dickson	Swimming
	Phil Coulson Phil Coulson Phil Coulson is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which crosses over several Marvel Studios superhero films. Coulson first appeared as a member of the fictional agency S.H.I.E.L.D. in Jon Favreau's 2008 film Iron Man, where he was portrayed by American actor Clark Gregg...	Harness Racing
	Barry Cable Barry Cable Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...	Australian rules football
1967	Brian Griffin	Lacrosse Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
	Bill Walker	Australian rules football
	Lynne Watson Lynne Watson Lynne Watson , known after marriage as Lynne Bates was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4x100m medley relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, narrowly missing two more medals....	Swimming
1968	Brian Glencross	Hockey
1968	Lyn McClements Lyn McClements Lynnette Velma McClements , was an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s who won a gold medal in the 100m butterfly at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...	Swimming
1969	Syd Lodge	Yachting Yachting Yachting refers to recreational sailing or boating, the specific act of sailing or using other water vessels for sporting purposes.-Competitive sailing:...
1969	Margaret Court	Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
1970	Margaret Court	Tennis
1971	Dennis Lillee Dennis Lillee Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation"...	Cricket
1971	Gaye Walsh	Netball Netball Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
1972	Dennis Lillee	Cricket
1972	Rod Marsh Rod Marsh Rodney William Marsh MBE is a former Australian wicketkeeper.A colourful character, Marsh had a Test career spanning from the 1970–71 to the 1983–84 Australian season. In 96 Tests, he set a world record of 355 wicketkeeping dismissals, the same number his pace bowling Western...	Cricket
1973	Margaret Court	Tennis
	Roslyn Fisher	Hockey
	Rod Marsh	Cricket
	Graham Marsh Graham Marsh Graham Vivian Marsh MBE was one of the leading Australian professional golfers of his generation.-Career outline:Marsh was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia...	Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
1974	Rod Marsh	Cricket
1974	Rob O'Sullivan	Yachting
1975	John Gilmour	Athletics
	Libby Felton	Rifle shooting
	Dennis Lillee	Cricket
1976	Ric Charlesworth	Hockey
1976	Dennis Lillee	Cricket
1977	Graham Marsh	Golf
1977	Dean Williams	Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
1978	Rob O'Sullivan	Yachting
1978	Barbara Wall Barbara Wall Barbara Wall is a former squash player from Australia.Wall turned professional in 1973, the first Australian woman to do so. She travelled overseas in 1976 and the following year, though unseeded, managed to make the final of the British Open, where she lost to Heather McKay...	Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
1979	Ric Charlesworth	Hockey
	Kim Hughes Kim Hughes Kimberley John Hughes is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Tests between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a "rebel" Australian team in a tour of South Africa, who at the time were subject to a sporting boycott.A right-handed...	Cricket
	Barbara Wall	Squash
1980	Kim Hughes	Cricket
1980	Lou Austin	Harness Racing
1981	Rod Marsh	Cricket
	Sue Roberts Sue Roberts Sue Roberts is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Roberts won four times on the LPGA Tour between 1974 and 1976.-LPGA Tour wins:*1974 Niagara Frontier Classic, Southgate Ladies Open...	Powerlifting Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
	Terry Alderman Terry Alderman Terence Michael Alderman is a former Australian cricketer.He began his first-class career in 1974 with Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and came to international prominence when he was chosen for the Australian national team to tour England in 1981...	Cricket
	Dennis Lillee	Cricket
1982	Neil Brooks Neil Brooks Neil Brooks is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer best known for winning the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. Brooks was as much known for his swimming achievements as he was for disciplinary incidents...	Swimming
1983	Steele Bishop Steele Bishop Steele Bishop is a former track racing cyclist and World Champion.-Biography:Bishop was born 1953 in Subiaco, Western Australia....	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...
1984	Graham Lillingston	Yachting
	Peter Evans Peter Evans (swimmer) Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet...	Swimming
	Steve Malaxos Steve Malaxos Stephen "Steve" Malaxos is a former Australian rules footballer and coach from Western Australia. While playing for Claremont in the WAFL, he won the 1984 Sandover Medal. Malaxos was an All-Australian with Claremont in 1986 and while he was with the West Coast Eagles in 1988...	Australian rules football
1985	Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....	Tennis
1985	Graham Marsh	Golf
1986	Ric Charlesworth	Hockey
	Geoff Marsh Geoff Marsh Geoffrey Robert Marsh is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman...	Cricket
	Graham Marsh	Golf
1987	Peter Gilmour Peter Gilmour Peter Gilmour is an Australian sailing skipper of great note. He is an America's Cup veteran and was named Western Australian Sportsman of the Year in 1987. He is also the only 4 time World Match racing Tour Champion...	Yachting
	Thomas Stachewicz Thomas Stachewicz Thomas 'Tom' Stachewicz, born in Germany , is a former freestyle and backstroke swimmer, who represented Australia at three Summer Olympics....	Swimming
	Ric Charlesworth	Hockey
1988	Elspeth Clement	Hockey
1989	Terry Alderman	Cricket
1990	Bruce Reid Bruce Reid Bruce Anthony Reid is an Australian cricketer and bowling coach of the Indian national cricket team on their 2003-04 tour to Australia....	Cricket
1990	Ian Brown Ian Brown (swimmer) Ian Robert Brown is a former freestyle swimmer from Australia, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics. He made his debut in 1988. His best Olympic result was the fifth place, four years later in Barcelona, Spain, in the Men's 400m Freestyle.-References:*...	Swimming
1991	Roger MacKay Roger Mackay Roger J. Mackay was an Australian professional golfer.Mackay turned professional in 1983 and played on both the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Golf Tour. His biggest successes came in Japan, where he won on eight occasions. In Australia he is best remembered for his 1987 win at the...	Golf
1991	Shelley Taylor-Smith Shelley Taylor-Smith Shelley Taylor-Smith is a former Australian long-distance swimmer.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Taylor-Smith suffered from scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, throughout her school years. The condition required her to wear a back brace, although she was successful in national age...	Swimming
1992	Craig Parry Craig Parry Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.Parry was...	Golf
	Ramon Andersson Ramon Andersson Ramon Andersson is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992....	Canoeing Canoeing Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....
	Peter Matera	Australian rules football
1993	Ramon Andersson	Canoeing
1993	Dean Capobianco Dean Capobianco Dean Capobianco is an Australian businessman and former athlete. As an athlete he is best known as a sprinter. He won the 1990 Stawell Gift.-Athletics:...	Athletics
1994	Darryn Hill Darryn Hill Darryn William Hill is an Australian former racing cyclist, specialising in the sprint events of track cycling.- Palmarès :1994...	Cycling
1995	Darryn Hill Darryn Hill Darryn William Hill is an Australian former racing cyclist, specialising in the sprint events of track cycling.- Palmarès :1994...	Cycling
1996	Luc Longley Luc Longley Lucien James "Luc" Longley is a retired Australian professional basketball player, who was the first Australian to play in the NBA, where he played for eleven seasons...	Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
1996	Robert Scott Robert Scott (rower) Robert Scott is an Australian rower.Robert Scott won West Australian Sports Star of the Year Award in 1996 for his achievements in rowing...	Rowing Sport rowing Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
1997	Luc Longley	Basketball
1998	Lucy Tyler-Sharman Lucy Tyler-Sharman Lucy Tyler-Sharman is an Australian Olympic and World Champion cyclist.As a junior, Tyler was an gifted sportswoman, focussing on swimming at junior high school and later triathlons. She moved into criterium events while living in Florida and in 1988 made the move to velodrome events...	Cycling
1999	Justin Langer Justin Langer Justin Lee Langer AM is a former international cricketer who represented Australia in 105 Test matches and the current Assistant Coach and Batting Coach of the Australian cricket team. A left-handed batsman, his opening partnership with Matthew Hayden was one of the most successful of all time...	Cricket
2000	Rechelle Hawkes Rechelle Hawkes Rechelle Margaret Hawkes was the captain of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team, best known as the Hockeyroos, for eight years and is one of only two Australian females to win three Olympic gold medals at three separate Olympic Games: Sydney 2000, Atlanta 1996 and Seoul 1988.Hawkes also competed at...	Hockey
2001	Dmitri Markov Dmitri Markov Dmitri Markov is a retired Belarusian and Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder.-Biography:...	Athletics
2002	Simon Black Simon Black Simon Black is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.Black is a midfielder with a reputation for hard work and skill...	Australian rules football
2003	Adam Gilchrist Adam Gilchrist Adam Craig Gilchrist AM , nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy", is an Australian international cricketer who currently captains Kings XI Punjab and recently captained Middlesex. He is an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who redefined the role for the Australian national...	Cricket
2003	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...	Cycling
2004	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...	Cycling
2005	Ben Cousins Ben Cousins Benjamin Luke "Ben" Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his 270-game career with and in the Australian Football League ....	Australian rules football
2005	Robin Bell Robin Bell Robin Bell is a South African-born, Australian slalom canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C-1 event at Beijing in 2008....	Canoeing
2006	Paul Burgess Paul Burgess (athlete) Paul Burgess is an Australian pole vaulter who become only the thirteenth pole vaulter in the world to reach 6 metres.-Biography:...	Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...
2007	unknown	unknown
2008	Steve Hooker	Pole vault
2009	Steve Hooker	Pole vault
2010	Lauren Mitchell Lauren Mitchell Lauren Mitchell is an Australian artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 World Champion on floor and the 2009 World Championships silver medalist on balance beam and floor. Mitchell is only the second Australian woman gymnast to win medals at a World Championships, and the first to win gold...	Gymnastics Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

List of winners by sport

Sport	Winners
Athletics	Shirley de la Hunty Shirley Strickland Shirley Barbara Strickland AO, MBE , later Shirley de la Hunty, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports.-Family:... , Herb Elliott Herb Elliott Herbert James "Herb" Elliott AC MBE is a former Australian athlete, one of the world's greatest middle distance runners... , Dixie Willis Dixie Willis Dixie Isabel Willis is a former Australian middle distance runner, who won the gold medal in the women's 880 yards event at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. She was selected to compete over 800 metres for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics... , Joyce Bennett, John Gilmour, Dean Capobianco Dean Capobianco Dean Capobianco is an Australian businessman and former athlete. As an athlete he is best known as a sprinter. He won the 1990 Stawell Gift.-Athletics:... , Dmitri Markov Dmitri Markov Dmitri Markov is a retired Belarusian and Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder.-Biography:... , Paul Burgess Paul Burgess (athlete) Paul Burgess is an Australian pole vaulter who become only the thirteenth pole vaulter in the world to reach 6 metres.-Biography:...
Australian rules football Australian rules football Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...	Brian Foley Brian Foley For the New York State Senator, see Brian X. Foley.Brian Foley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with West Perth in the WANFL. He occupies a forward pocket in West Perth's official 'Team of the Century'.... , Haydn Bunton, Jr. Haydn Bunton, Jr. Haydn Austin Bunton was a player and coach of Australian rules football. He became the youngest ever coach in a major league of Australian rules, when he was appointed coach of Norwood Football Club in 1957.... , Barry Cable Barry Cable Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games... , Bill Walker, Steve Malaxos Steve Malaxos Stephen "Steve" Malaxos is a former Australian rules footballer and coach from Western Australia. While playing for Claremont in the WAFL, he won the 1984 Sandover Medal. Malaxos was an All-Australian with Claremont in 1986 and while he was with the West Coast Eagles in 1988... , Peter Matera, Simon Black Simon Black Simon Black is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.Black is a midfielder with a reputation for hard work and skill... , Ben Cousins Ben Cousins Benjamin Luke "Ben" Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his 270-game career with and in the Australian Football League ....
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...	Luc Longley Luc Longley Lucien James "Luc" Longley is a retired Australian professional basketball player, who was the first Australian to play in the NBA, where he played for eleven seasons...
Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...	Bob Marshall
Canoeing Canoeing Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....	Ramon Andersson Ramon Andersson Ramon Andersson is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.... , Robin Bell Robin Bell Robin Bell is a South African-born, Australian slalom canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C-1 event at Beijing in 2008....
Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...	Bob Simpson Bob Simpson (cricketer) Robert Baddeley Simpson AO is a former cricketer who played for New South Wales, Western Australia and Australia, captaining the national team from 1963–64 until 1967–68, and again in 1977–78. He later had a highly successful term as the coach of the Australian team... , Graham McKenzie Graham McKenzie Graham Douglas "Garth" McKenzie is a former Australian and Western Australian cricketer. He was a fast bowler. First selected to play for Australia at age of 19, he toured England in 1961 under Richie Benaud... , Peter Kelly, Dennis Lillee Dennis Lillee Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation"... , Rod Marsh Rod Marsh Rodney William Marsh MBE is a former Australian wicketkeeper.A colourful character, Marsh had a Test career spanning from the 1970–71 to the 1983–84 Australian season. In 96 Tests, he set a world record of 355 wicketkeeping dismissals, the same number his pace bowling Western... , Dennis Lillee Dennis Lillee Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation"... , Kim Hughes Kim Hughes Kimberley John Hughes is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Tests between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a "rebel" Australian team in a tour of South Africa, who at the time were subject to a sporting boycott.A right-handed... , Terry Alderman Terry Alderman Terence Michael Alderman is a former Australian cricketer.He began his first-class career in 1974 with Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and came to international prominence when he was chosen for the Australian national team to tour England in 1981... , Geoff Marsh Geoff Marsh Geoffrey Robert Marsh is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman... , Bruce Reid Bruce Reid Bruce Anthony Reid is an Australian cricketer and bowling coach of the Indian national cricket team on their 2003-04 tour to Australia.... , Justin Langer Justin Langer Justin Lee Langer AM is a former international cricketer who represented Australia in 105 Test matches and the current Assistant Coach and Batting Coach of the Australian cricket team. A left-handed batsman, his opening partnership with Matthew Hayden was one of the most successful of all time... , Adam Gilchrist Adam Gilchrist Adam Craig Gilchrist AM , nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy", is an Australian international cricketer who currently captains Kings XI Punjab and recently captained Middlesex. He is an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who redefined the role for the Australian national...
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...	Steele Bishop Steele Bishop Steele Bishop is a former track racing cyclist and World Champion.-Biography:Bishop was born 1953 in Subiaco, Western Australia.... , Darryn Hill Darryn Hill Darryn William Hill is an Australian former racing cyclist, specialising in the sprint events of track cycling.- Palmarès :1994... , Lucy Tyler-Sharman Lucy Tyler-Sharman Lucy Tyler-Sharman is an Australian Olympic and World Champion cyclist.As a junior, Tyler was an gifted sportswoman, focussing on swimming at junior high school and later triathlons. She moved into criterium events while living in Florida and in 1988 made the move to velodrome events... , 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... , 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...
Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....	Roger MacKay Roger Mackay Roger J. Mackay was an Australian professional golfer.Mackay turned professional in 1983 and played on both the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Golf Tour. His biggest successes came in Japan, where he won on eight occasions. In Australia he is best remembered for his 1987 win at the... , Graham Marsh Graham Marsh Graham Vivian Marsh MBE was one of the leading Australian professional golfers of his generation.-Career outline:Marsh was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia... , Craig Parry Craig Parry Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.Parry was...
Harness Racing Harness racing Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait . They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, although racing under saddle is also conducted in Europe.-Breeds:...	Phil Coulson Phil Coulson Phil Coulson is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which crosses over several Marvel Studios superhero films. Coulson first appeared as a member of the fictional agency S.H.I.E.L.D. in Jon Favreau's 2008 film Iron Man, where he was portrayed by American actor Clark Gregg... , Lou Austin
Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...	Morna Pearce, Brian Glencross, Roslyn Fisher, Ric Charlesworth, Elspeth Clement, Rechelle Hawkes Rechelle Hawkes Rechelle Margaret Hawkes was the captain of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team, best known as the Hockeyroos, for eight years and is one of only two Australian females to win three Olympic gold medals at three separate Olympic Games: Sydney 2000, Atlanta 1996 and Seoul 1988.Hawkes also competed at...
Lacrosse Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...	Brian Griffin
Netball Netball Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...	Gaye Walsh
Powerlifting Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...	Sue Roberts Sue Roberts Sue Roberts is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Roberts won four times on the LPGA Tour between 1974 and 1976.-LPGA Tour wins:*1974 Niagara Frontier Classic, Southgate Ladies Open...
Rifle shooting	Libby Felton
Rowing Sport rowing Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...	Robert Scott Robert Scott (rower) Robert Scott is an Australian rower.Robert Scott won West Australian Sports Star of the Year Award in 1996 for his achievements in rowing...
Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...	Dean Williams, Barbara Wall Barbara Wall Barbara Wall is a former squash player from Australia.Wall turned professional in 1973, the first Australian woman to do so. She travelled overseas in 1976 and the following year, though unseeded, managed to make the final of the British Open, where she lost to Heather McKay...
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...	David Dickson David Dickson (swimmer) David Dickson was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won three bronze medals in freestyle and medley relay events at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rome and Tokyo respectively.-1960 Summer Olympics:Dickson was selected to make his international debut at... , John Ryan John Ryan (swimmer) John Ryan was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.... , David Dickson David Dickson (swimmer) David Dickson was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won three bronze medals in freestyle and medley relay events at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rome and Tokyo respectively.-1960 Summer Olympics:Dickson was selected to make his international debut at... , Lynne Watson Lynne Watson Lynne Watson , known after marriage as Lynne Bates was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4x100m medley relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, narrowly missing two more medals.... , Lyn McClements Lyn McClements Lynnette Velma McClements , was an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s who won a gold medal in the 100m butterfly at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics... , Neil Brooks Neil Brooks Neil Brooks is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer best known for winning the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. Brooks was as much known for his swimming achievements as he was for disciplinary incidents... , Peter Evans Peter Evans (swimmer) Peter Maxwell Evans is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1980s, who won four Olympic medals, most notably a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet... , Thomas Stachewicz Thomas Stachewicz Thomas 'Tom' Stachewicz, born in Germany , is a former freestyle and backstroke swimmer, who represented Australia at three Summer Olympics.... , Ian Brown Ian Brown (swimmer) Ian Robert Brown is a former freestyle swimmer from Australia, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics. He made his debut in 1988. His best Olympic result was the fifth place, four years later in Barcelona, Spain, in the Men's 400m Freestyle.-References:*... , Shelley Taylor-Smith Shelley Taylor-Smith Shelley Taylor-Smith is a former Australian long-distance swimmer.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Taylor-Smith suffered from scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, throughout her school years. The condition required her to wear a back brace, although she was successful in national age...
Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...	Margaret Court, Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....
Yachting Yachting Yachting refers to recreational sailing or boating, the specific act of sailing or using other water vessels for sporting purposes.-Competitive sailing:...	Syd Lodge, Rob O'Sullivan, Graham Lillingston, Peter Gilmour Peter Gilmour Peter Gilmour is an Australian sailing skipper of great note. He is an America's Cup veteran and was named Western Australian Sportsman of the Year in 1987. He is also the only 4 time World Match racing Tour Champion...

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