Australian Athlete Profiles
Introduction
There are a number of ways to locate profiles of Australian athletes on the web:
- Search the Sport Directory for the national sporting organisation site of the relevant sport. You will find also links to these on our sports played in Australia page.
- Australian Institute of Sport athlete profiles can be found under their sport.
- Use a search engine such as Google , Alta Vista (GoEureka), Yahoo, ANZwers to locate information. A sample search on Alta Vista for Petria Thomas might be : [+"petria thomas" +swimming] - this will bring up a range of sites with a profile or bio information.
- Profiles of current and past athletes may also be found at sports agents or sports fans sites.
Links
- Australian Olympic Committee 50 finest Olympians has profiles of the greatest athletes who have represented Australia at the Olympic Games.
- Vibe sports watch has profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sports stars.
- Celebrity addresses Australian includes links to sport celebrity web sites - this is a subscription site.
- OzLife is an Australian biography and book review index which provides references to newspaper and journal articles.
- Wikipedia has a biographical information on famous Australian athletes - Swimmers, Track & Field Athletes, Australian Sport provides links to prominent athletes
- Australian National Dictionary of Biography - includes biographies of significant Australian sports people who died before 1980
- She's Game - Women making Australian sporting history - a project of the National Foundation for Australian Women as part of the Foundation's ongoing initiative, the Australian Women's Archives Project.
