List of Australian sportswomen
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List of notable Australian sportswomen. List is based on their inclusion into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame,[1] Olympic and Paralympic individual gold medalist, multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships or recognized through public opinion lists.[2] The list is not exhaustive.
Athletics[edit]
- Judy Amoore - Olympic Games individual medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Raelene Boyle - multiple Olympic medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Maureen Caird - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Betty Cuthbert - multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Shirley de la Hunty - multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Jane Flemming - multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist
- Debbie Flintoff-King - Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Cathy Freeman - Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Tracey Freeman - - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Marjorie Jackson - multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Pam Kilborn - multiple Olympic Games individual medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Lisa Llorens - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Marlene Mathews - multiple Olympic medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Lisa McIntosh - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Decima Norman - multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Glynis Nunn - Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Lisa Ondieki - Olympic Games individual medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Sally Pearson - Olympic games gold medalist
- Alison Quinn - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Louise Sauvage - multiple Paralaympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Donna Smith - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Katrina Webb - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Jodi Willis - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Amy Winters - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
Basketball[edit]
- Suzy Batkovic - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Sandy Brondello - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Donna Burns - gold medalist at 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap
- Trisha Fallon - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Kristi Harrower - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Lauren Jackson - multiple Olympic Games medalist and three-time WNBA MVP; 2021 inductee of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- Erin Phillips - Olympic Games medalist and multiple FIBA World Cup medalist; also two-time MVP of AFL Women's in Australian rules football
- Rachael Sporn - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Penny Taylor - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Liesl Tesch - multiple Paralympic medalist and gold medalist in sailing.
- Michele Timms - multiple Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Canoeing[edit]
- Katrin Borchert - multiple Olympic medalist
- Jessica Fox - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Anna Wood - multiple Olympic medalist
- Danielle Woodward - Olympic Games medalist
Cricket[edit]
- Belinda Clark - former captain and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Ellyse Perry - dual international cricket and football
- Karen Rolton - former leading batsman
- Lisa Sthalekar - former leading all rounder
- Betty Wilson former leading batsman and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Cycling[edit]
- Sara Carrigan - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Michelle Ferris - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Anna Meares - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Kathy Watt - Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Diving[edit]
- Brittany Broben - Olympic Games individual medallist
- Jenny Donnet - multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist
- Chantelle Newbery - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Loudy Wiggins - multiple Olympic Games medalist
- Melissa Wu - multiple Olympic Games medalist
Equestrian[edit]
- Julie Higgins - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Gillian Rolton - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Wendy Schaeffer - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Golf[edit]
- Edwina Kennedy - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Jan Stephenson - Sport Australia Hall of Fame and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee
- Karrie Webb – winner of multiple women's major championships and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee
- Leonara Wray - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Gymnastics[edit]
- Lauren Mitchell - World champion gold medalist
- Monette Russo - World champion medalist
Hockey[edit]
- Alyson Annan - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Sharon Buchanan - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Diane Gorman - former captain and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Rechelle Hawkes - multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Jacqueline Pereira - multiple Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Nova Peris - Olympic Games gold medalist and Commonwealth Games gold medalist in athletics
- Liane Tooth - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Horse racing[edit]
- Gai Waterhouse - leading Australian trainer
Motor sport[edit]
- Amanda Sparks - leading Australian driver
- Leanne Tander - leading Australian driver
Lacrosse[edit]
- Jen Adams - world champion, NCAA Lacrosse legend
- Hannah Nielsen - world champion
- Wendy Piltz - world champion
- Jenny Williams - world champion
Netball[edit]
- Margaret Caldow - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Jane Cowan - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Michelle den Dekker - leading defender, World and Commonwealth Games champion, longest reigning Captain, elite coach
- Liz Ellis - leading defender and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Sharelle McMahon - leading Australian shooter
- Anne Sargeant - leading goal shooter and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Vicki Wilson - leading goal shooter and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Polocrosse[edit]
- Kylie Dowling - Western Australian, polocrosse rider
Rowing[edit]
- Kim Crow - Olympic Games multiple medalist
- Adair Ferguson - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Megan Marcks - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Kate Slatter - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Sailing[edit]
- Jenny Armstrong - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Kay Cottee - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Tessa Parkinson - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Elise Rechichi - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Belinda Stowell - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Liesl Tesch - Paralympic Games gold medalist
Shooting[edit]
- Suzanne Balogh - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Libby Kosmala - Multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Judith Trim - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Skiing[edit]
- Torah Bright - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Alisa Camplin - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Jacqui Cooper - world champion
- Lydia Lassila - Olympic Games gold medalist
- Kirstie Marshall - world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Anna Segal - Olympic freestyle skier and two-time world champion
- Zali Steggall - Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Soccer[edit]
- Melissa Barbieri - former Australian captain
- Ashley Brown - player for Melbourne Victory
- Sam Kerr – current Australia captain; all-time leading goal scorer for the W-League and the US National Women's Soccer League; two-time NWSL MVP
- Melissa Maizels (born 1993) - footballer
- Julie Murray - early professional pioneer
- Ellyse Perry - dual international cricket and football
- Cheryl Salisbury - former Australian captain
- Kyah Simon - first Aboriginal Australian footballer to score a goal at a World Cup final
- Sarah Walsh
Softball[edit]
- Joyce Lester - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Marjorie Nelson - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Squash[edit]
- Vicki Cardwell - multiple British Open and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Sarah Fitz-Gerald - multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Michelle Martin - multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Heather McKay - multiple British Open and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Surf life saving[edit]
- Reen Corbett - former Australian champion
- Karla Gilbert - former Australian champion
Surfing[edit]
- Layne Beachley - multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Wendy Botha - multiple world champion
- Pam Burridge - world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Stephanie Gilmore - multiple world champion
Swimming[edit]
- Cate Campbell – multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships
- Melissa Carlton - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Ellie Cole - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Priya Cooper - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Alicia Coutts - multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist
- Lorraine Crapp - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Anne Currie - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Lisa Curry-Kenny
- Gemma Dashwood - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Clare Dennis - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Fanny Durack - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Elizabeth Edmondson - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Michelle Ford - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Dawn Fraser - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Tracey Freeman - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Jacqueline Freney - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Shane Gould - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Jodie Henry - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Daphne Hilton - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Liesel Jones - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Annette Kellerman - Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Ilsa Konrads - Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Hayley Lewis - multiple Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Libby Lenton - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Lyn McClements - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Emma McKeon – multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Kaylee McKeown – multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Bonnie Mealing - Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Karen Moras - multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Gail Neall - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Susan O'Neill - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Siobhan Paton - multiple Paralympic Games gold medalist
- Stephanie Rice - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist
- Jessica Schipper - multiple world champion
- Emily Seebohm – multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships
- Petria Thomas - multiple Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Ariarne Titmus – multiple Olympic Games gold medallist
- Beverley Whitfield - Olympic Games gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Tracey Wickham - multiple world champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Mina Wylie - Olympic Games medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
Taekwondo[edit]
- Lauren Burns - Olympic Games gold medalist
Tennis[edit]
- Ashleigh Barty – multiple grand slam champion and two-time year-end world #1 player
- Lesley Bowrey - multiple grand slam champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Margaret Court - multiple grand slam champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Eva Duldig (born 1938) - Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
- Evonne Goolagong - multiple grand slam champion and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
- Sam Stosur - grand slam champion
Triathlon[edit]
- Emma Carney - world champion
- Jackie Gallagher - world champion
- Nicole Hackett - world champion
- Loretta Harrop - Olympic Games medalist and world champion
- Michellie Jones - Olympic medalist and world champion
- Joanne King - world champion
- Emma Moffatt - Olympic medalist and world champion
- Emma Snowsill - Olympic gold medalist and world champion
Volleyball[edit]
- Natalie Cook - Olympic gold medalist beach volleyball
- Kerri Pottharst - Olympic gold medalist beach volleyball
Water polo[edit]
- Debbie Watson - Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Athlete Members". Sport Australia Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ "Top 100 Australian Sportswomen of All Time". Sport for Women website. Retrieved 30 July 2013.