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 and world championship 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]- Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva (born 2002) - Olympic rhythmic gymnast
- 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
Skateboarding
[edit]- Arisa Trew – Olympic medalist
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
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- 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]- Sienna Green (born 2004) – water polo Olympian
- Debbie Watson – Olympic gold medalist and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
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.