The People

From backyard heros to sporting legends, these are the stories of triumph and adversity

The pioneers who got the ball rolling

Australian Athletes Who Changed the Game

Powerful stories of the development of Australian sport

The Travelling Boxing Troupe Where Legends Were Made

Like the Famous Fighting Sands Brothers who fought 607 bouts between them

Walter Lindrum is regarded as the greatest ever billiards player. He achieved 57 world records and playing rules were even changed to try and curb his game.

The household names

Prized portraits of Aussie athletes

Soccer: Michelle Heyman

Former Matildas striker and LBGTI role model

Paralympics: Kurt Fearnley

3 time Paralympic gold medalist

Rugby Union: Mark Ella

10 time Australian rugby captain

Swimming: Dawn Fraser

Broke 39 world records

Rugby Union: Peter FitzSimons

Wallaby in seven tests

Athletics: Anna Meares

Won 11 world championships and 6 Olympic medals

Paralympics: Dylan Alcott

2 gold medals in wheelchair tennis

Athletics: Marjorie Jackson-Nelson

First world-record-breaking Australian woman

AFL: Adam Goodes

Most AFL games played by an Indigenous footballer

Snowboarding: Torah Bright

Most successful female winter Olympian

Athletics: Louise Sauvage

Won 9 gold and 2 silver Olympic medals

Athletics: Cathy Freeman

First Aboriginal athlete to win a Commonwealth gold medal

Sailing: Jessica Watson

Sailed solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world

Cricket: Max Walker

34 Test matches between 1973 and 1981

Swimming: John Konrads

Broke all the freestyle swimming world records from 200 to 1500 metre

Athletics: Betty Cuthbert

Leading gold-medal winning track and field athlete

Athletics: Robert Di Pierdomenico

Scored 130 AFL goals and played in 24 finals

Look back with a legend

Steve Waugh on putting his pads on wrong and winning the World Cup

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Steve Waugh Visits The Bradman Museum

Join his tour and hear him tell stories from his career

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Take a Tour With Steve Waugh

Explore the Bradman Museum with the iconic cricketer

Medal winners and record breakers

National Sports Museum

How Hubert Opperman Cycled the Bol d'Or After His Bike was "Sabotaged"...and Won

And other stories of trailblazing Australian world champions

In 2000, Cathy Freeman became the first Australian Aboriginal person to win an individual Olympic gold medal for the 400-metre final

Kick like a girl

State Library of New South Wales

The First Australian Woman to Get the Gold

From 1910-1918 Sarah 'Fanny' Durack was considered the world's greatest female swimmer

Surfer dudes

Meet the surfers making waves

Australian National Surfing Museum

Taylor Miller

A young adventurer who was born into a family of surfing royalty.

Australian National Surfing Museum

Oscar Lalor

Making music and riding the waves

Australian National Surfing Museum

Kylie & Harvey

How love of the surf have helped them overcome life challenges

Australian National Surfing Museum

Mary Prince

The story of Aireys Inlet's local surfing grandmother

Australian National Surfing Museum

Haisam Farache

A Byron Bay surfer and artist

Australian National Surfing Museum

Kat Charles

Australian National Surfing Museum

Daffy Chisolm

A life in the surf

Australian National Surfing Museum

Jacob Struth

The young surfer on how surfing inspires his life

Australian National Surfing Museum

Steve Parker

The indigenous artist producing surfable art

Australian National Surfing Museum

Grant Newby

Meet the New Zealand born surfer and board maker

Australian National Surfing Museum

Will Graham

An extended family that lives and breathes Australian surfing and beach culture

Australian National Surfing Museum

Barry 'Magoo' McGuigan

One of Australia's "old souls of the surf",

In 2010, 16-year-old Australian teenager Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail around the world alone and unassisted

Champions on the court

Tennis Australia

Australian Women's Tennis Champions, Past and Present

From Margaret Court to Ashleigh Barty

The legendary cricketer with a Test batting average of 99.94

Reflecting on Donald Bradman

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

The Player

A batting success that's totally comprehensive, unalienable and unrepeatable

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

The Icon

Young, good-looking, respectful, eager and modest

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

"It Was One of Those Occasions When Everything Went Right"

The story of his world-record innings, 452 not out

Greats of the game

A who's who of Australian cricket

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Richie Benaud

The "lucky" captain who never lost a test series

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Shane Warne

The greatest leg-spin bowler in the annals of the game

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Belinda Clark

Captained the 1997 World Cup victory in India

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Bill 'Tiger' O’Reilly

The master spinner with the unorthodox grip

Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame

Kerry Packer

The most influential non-player in the history of Australian cricket

Melbourne Cricket Club

And the People Shaping Progress Behind-the-Scenes

Melbourne Cricket Club's past Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries.

Bronzed Aussies

Sporting heros immortalised as statues

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Larger Than Life: Statues of Champions and Legends

From Bill Ponsford to Tom Wills

Sydney Cricket & Sports Grounds

The Basil Sellers Sports Sculptures Project

From Richie Benaud to Yabba

The People

Australia's sporting DNA

Highlights from history

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